Spies

Anna Blair, author of best-selling Tea at Miss Cranston's, has written 22 short stories, with very different settings: some in her native Scotland, some in Malaysia where she lived for a few years and others from North America where she has grandchildren. Some of her Scottish stories have a historical context, but most of the stories were prompted by some incident or encounter which left her wondering what might have led up to it, or what might follow. The stories are often deeply touching, but her gentle sense of humour prevents them becoming sentimental. The varied geographical and cultural settings add a richness to the collection.

Author: Anna Blair

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Set against the turbulent backdrop of 1960s Indonesia, this historical drama follows two orphaned brothers torn apart by destiny. While Johan is raised in the luxury of Kuala Lumpur by a wealthy Malaysian couple, his younger brother, Adam, grows up in a simple Indonesian coastal town, adopted by a gentle Dutch painter named Karl. As political unrest ignites and post-colonial hostility sweeps the nation, Karl is abruptly arrested by military soldiers. Armed with determination, sixteen-year-old Adam embarks on a desperate, high-stakes quest to find his father. 

Author: Tash Aw

**First few pages have light water stains at the top, that slightly indented them, no waving is present. 

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Baruch Kotler is a disgraced Israeli politician. When he refuses to back down from a contrary but principled stand, his opponents expose his affair with a younger woman. Seeking refuge, he and his mistress flee to Yalta—the very place where he spent time fifty years earlier in a Soviet gulag. But Yalta has changed, and Kotler's past is not as buried as he thought. When he is unexpectedly confronted with the man who denounced him to the KGB decades ago, he is forced to reckon with both his history and his present. 

Author: David Bezmozgis

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A Booker Prize-winning literary masterpiece from Pat Barker, exploring the dirty, glorious, and horrifying reality of the First World War. This heart-rending omnibus brings together Regeneration, The Eye in the Door, and The Ghost Road. Seen through the eyes of army psychologist William Rivers and damaged soldier Billy Prior, it chronicles the final two years of the war. As Rivers struggles to heal traumatized men—including the poet Siegfried Sassoon—only to see them sent straight back to the front, Barker crafts a devastating vision of an entire generation brutalized by the horrors of the trenches.

Author: Pat Barker

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Zee Miller, a minister's restless daughter, dreams of becoming a movie star, and Doyle Lawrence, the son of a wealthy lawyer, is expected to follow his father in the practice of law. But the high school friends enter a caldron of conflict when war breaks out and changes everyone's plans. 

Author: James Scott Bell

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Set against the harsh, mesmerizing landscape of the last Ice Age, The Land of Painted Caves brings a magnificent conclusion to Jean M. Auel's epic Earth's Children series. The story continues to follow Ayla, a remarkable woman—a huntress, healer, and rule-breaker who was separated from her own people as a child and has spent her life fighting for survival and belonging. Now faced with an overwhelming sense of destiny that pulls against the needs of her heart, Ayla’s hunger for knowledge and experience of the prehistoric world will lead her to discoveries that change her life forever. 

Author: Jean M. Auel

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Set in 1973 Cape Town, this exceptional debut novel follows eleven-year-old Marnus, a boy growing up in a prominent, elite Afrikaner military family. When a mysterious visitor named Mr. Smith arrives at their home, a quiet but irreversible shift shatters Marnus's world, exposing a deep undercurrent of hypocrisy and disillusionment. Serving as a poignant indictment of apartheid's complex realities, this deeply moving work safely secures its place alongside the finest masterpieces of South African literature.

Author: Mark Behr

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A breathtaking Victorian epic of friendship, survival, and exotic wonders that was shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize. In Jamrach's Menagerie, Carol Birch brings 1857 London brilliantly to life through young Jaffy Brown, who is plucked from the jaws of an escaped tiger by the legendary exotic animal collector, Mr. Jamrach. Soon, Jaffy is swept onto a high-seas voyage bound for the Dutch East Indies on a treacherous mission that will push his friendships, sanity, and will to survive to their absolute limits. A beautifully written, fast-paced literary adventure.

Author: Carol Birch

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