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Henri Charrière Papillon ENCondemned for a murder he had not committed‚ Henri Charriere (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Forty−two days after his arrival he made his first break‚ travelling a thousand gruelling miles in an open boat. Recaptured‚ he went into solitary confinement and was sent eventually to Devil′s Island‚ a hell−hole of disease and brutality. No one had ever escaped from this notorious prison…
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Michael Cunningham The Hours ENA passionate, profound and haunting story of love and inheritance, hope and despair which will be repackaged as part of Perennial's 2008 fiction promotion. Exiled in Richmond in the 1920s, taken from her beloved Bloomsbury and lovingly watched over by her husband Leonard, Virginia Woolf struggles to tame her rebellious mind and make a start on her new novel. In the brooding heat of 1940s Los Angeles, a young wife…
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Angela's Ashes ENStunning reissue of the phenomenal worldwide bestseller: Frank McCourt's sad, funny, bittersweet memoir of growing up in New York in the 30s and in Ireland in the 40s. It is a story of extreme hardship and suffering, in Brooklyn tenements and Limerick slums — too many children, too little money, his mother Angela barely coping as his father Malachy's drinking bouts constantly brings the family to the brink of…