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'We will all melt like ice-cream in the sun!' - British soldier, East Africa, October 1914As millions were slaughtered on the Western Front, a ridiculous and little-reported campaign was waged in East Africa - a war they continued after the Armistice because no one told them to stop.Primarily a gripping story of the men and women swept up by the passions of love and battle, William Boyd's magnificently entertaining novel also elicits the cruel futility and tragedy of it all.'As ambitious as it is remarkable - balances on seesaws of innocence and violence, sanity and lunacy, hilarity and horror' - The Times'He has a black-edged laughter of his own - quite outstanding' - Claire Tomalin in the Sunday Times'Funny, assured and expansively told, a seriocomic romp. But it's also something maturely more - a study of people caught in the side pockets of calamity that dramatizes their plights with humour, detail and grit' - Harper's

An Ice-Cream War

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published 1980

provides essential information on the leading figures, events and ideas in the early modern period

Dictionary of English and European History 1485-1789

The Biography of Joe Orton

Biografie van de Engelse toneelschrijver Joe Orton (1933-1967).

Prick Up Your Ears

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Eugenia, an expatriated American, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is about to reject her in favor of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix Young she travels to Boston to visit relatives she has never before seen, in hopes of making a wealthy marriage. The men of Bostonsoon realize her deceitfulness, and she returns to Europe, feeling that her fortune-hunting scheme is impractical in unsusceptible America. Its wit, gaiety, and what Rebecca West calls its "clear sunlit charm" have made this masterly short novel the most popular of James's novels.

The Europeans

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The Catcher in the Rye

Howards End and a Room with a View

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An English butler reflects--sometimes bitterly, sometimes humorously--on his service to a lord between the two world wars and discovers doubts about his master's character and about the ultimate value of his own service to humanity

The Remains of the Day

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A Handbook for Aspiring Angels

Describes angels and where they can be found, explains how to act and feel like an angel, and tells how to become an angel on earth.

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William Boyd

An Ice-Cream War

E. N. Williams

Dictionary of English and European History 1485-1789

John Lahr

Prick Up Your Ears

Henry James

The Europeans

J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye

E. M. Forster

Howards End and a Room with a View

Kazuo Ishiguro

The Remains of the Day

Karen Goldman; Anthony D'Agostino (Illustrator)

The Angel Book

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