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The House in Morocco by Rosalind Brackenbury
In an old stone house on the west coast of Morocco, Sarah Henderson, an American journalist, is welcomed by its inhabitants: Nick, the aristocratic English owner, Yann the French sailor, Aisha, the mother of Yann's child, and Aziz, with whom she falls passionately in love...

Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-76-1 8¾"x5¾" US$ 19.95   More Info...
The House in Morocco
Disappearing Act by Beatrice Colin
Crippled when her horse fell on her, the lithe, tiny and feisty Wing, can no longer continue her heady life as a tightrope walker and circus performer. When she receives a mysterious package that contains a memoir written by Helena, the mother who she never knew, Wing learns of her mother's bizarre and ultimately tragic story...

Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-40-0 Pages: 212 8¾"x5¾" US$ 19.95   More Info...
Disappearing Act
Nude Untitled by Beatrice Colin
Kate, the highly strung-editor of a fashionable London magazine, is determined to wrest the secret diaries of a newly discovered Russian painter of the Revolutionary period from the woman she thinks was his mistress. Clara, however, has her own agenda...

Paperback: ISBN: 1-902881-43-5 Pages: 272 8½"x6½" US$ 15.95   More Info...
Nude Untitled
The Dance of Geometry by Brian Howell
Brian Howell has masterfully interwoven three imagined episodes from the life of Johannes Vermeer. We observe the painter’s childhood and apprenticeship. We read a crime story involving an episode from the life of a modern-day ‘copyist’ who is blackmailed into forging a masterpiece to save the woman he loves. We follow a French connoisseur who travels to Delft to visit Vermeer, only to find himself embroiled in a clandestine and deadly debate of the Painter’s Guild about a new invention...

Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-47-8 Pages: 214 8¾"x5¾" US$ 19.95   More Info...
The Dance of Geometry
The Forwarding Agent by Austen Kark
Written by the former head of the BBC World Service, we meet Ben, an ex-marine newly set up in the forwarding business - forwarding people, not packages. An accidental bystander at a terrorist attack, he and his family are hunted at home in Cyprus and throughout the Middle East. Austen Kark was a master storyteller, and no one knew the beauty and tensions of the region better.

Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-02-8 Pages: 224 8¾"x6¾" US$ 19.95   More Info...
The Forwarding Agent
Absence by Raymond Tallis
"Set in pre-Thatcherite days and subtitled 'A Metaphysical Comedy', this is a wildly irreverent story of a young doctor recovering from a relationship that never happened. Exploring a variety of disparate themes—absence and obsession, racism and post-structuralism—Nick Page does for the National Health Service what the Marx Brothers did for Opera."

Hardcover: ISBN: 1-902881-00-1 Pages: 192 8¾"x6¾" US$ 19.95   More Info...
Absence

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