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Soggy the Sailor
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Soggy and the Golden Treasure
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Soggy and the Mermaid
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Lulu's Secrets to Looking Good
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The Ferry Birds - Helen Dunmore
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SOLAR - Ian McEwan
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The Coral Thief - Rebecca Stott
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Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel - Andrew Graham-Dixon
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The Frock Coated Communist - Tristram Hunt
Julian Barnes " The Lemon Table"
The characters in Julian Barnes' new collection of stories are growing old and facing the end of their lives - some with bitter regret, some with resignation and others still with raging defiance.
The settings range from nineteenth-century Sweden and Russia to a suburban `Barnet Shop', where the narrator measures out his life in haircuts, and a South Bank concert hall where a music lover carries out an obsessive campaign of revenge against those who cough in concerts. In `Knowing French' a fiercely independent eighty-year-old begins a correspondence with an author - `Dear Dr Barnes' - that enriches both their lives. A woman reads elaborate recipes to her sick husband in `Appetite'; a retired soldier in `Hygiene' makes his annual trip to attend a regimental dinner, run errands for his wife and spend the afternoon with a tart called Babs.
In a collection that is wise, funny, clever and moving, Julian Barnes has created characters whose passions and longings are made all the stronger by the knowledge that, for them, time is almost at an end.
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