Since this is a work of fiction, I have permitted myself certain inexactitudes. For example, the Soho Waiters’ Race does not immediately precede the Soho Ball.
The setting is obviously real, as are most of the streets, although some are not....
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Mark Casey has left home, the rural Irish community where his family has farmed the same land for generations, to study for a doctorate in Dublin, a vibrant, contemporary city full of possibility. To his father, Tom, who needs help baling the hay...
Michael Beard is a Nobel prize–winning physicist whose best work is behind him. Trading on his reputation, he speaks for enormous fees, lends his name to the letterheads of renowned scientific institutions, and half-heartedly heads a...
Cuando en los meses finales de la guerra civil española las tropas republicanas se retiran hacia la frontera francesa, camino del exilio, alguien toma la decisión de fusilar a un grupo de presos franquistas. Entre ellos se halla Rafael Sánchez...
Cuando en los meses finales de la guerra civil espa?ola las tropas republicanas se retiran hacia la frontera francesa, camino del exilio, alguien toma la decisi?n de fusilar a un grupo de presos franquistas. Entre ellos se halla Rafael S?nchez...
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The novels follow Nicholas Jenkins, Kenneth...
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