Simon Mawer

Marian Sutro

1 - Trapeze (May-2012)
2 - Tightrope (Nov-2015)

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  A Jealous God
  

  • Dec-1996
  • / General Fiction
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  Bored by her marriage with Eric, ambivalent about her children, and ridden with guilt about her aged mother, Helen Harding is at an age when memory begins its slow and pernicious invasion of the present.Unexpectedly she meets up with her estranged st...

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  Mendel's Dwarf
  

  • Aug-1998
  • / Action Adventure
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  Like his great-great-great-uncle, geneticist Gregor Mendel, Dr. Benedict Lambert struggles to unlock the secrets of heredity and genetic determinism. However, Benedict's mission is particularly urgent and particularly personal, for he was born with a...

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  The Gospel of Judas
  

  • May-2001
  • / Suspense
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  A priest experiencing a crisis of faith and the married woman to whom he is attracted. A scroll newly discovered near Jerusalem that, if authentic, could open Christianity to a complete reinterpretation. A tragic love affair unfolding in Fascist-domi...

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  The Fall
  

  • Jan-2003
  • / General Fiction
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  Rob Ross is driving home when he hears that his childhood friend Jim Matthewson has fallen to his death in a climbing accident. Rob's decision to turn his car around and make the journey to comfort Jim's widow is the beginning of a journey into the p...

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  Swimming To Ithaca
  

  • Jun-2007
  • / General Fiction
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  On her deathbed, Dee Denham whispers to her son Thomas that her cancer is a punishment for her past actions. Compelled by a grief he cannot articulate and a confused childhood memory of betrayal, as Thomas begins the process of dismantling his mothe...

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  The Glass Room
  

  • Nov-2009
  • / Historical
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  Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and ...

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  Trapeze
  

  • May-2012
  • / Historical
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  Marian Sutro - 1
  

  Barely out of school and doing her bit for the British war effort, Marian Sutro has one quality that makes her stand out -- she is a native French speaker. It is this that attracts the attention of the SOE, the Special Operations Executive, which tra...

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  Tightrope
  

  • Nov-2015
  • / Historical
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  Marian Sutro - 2
  

  An historical thriller that brings back Marian Sutro, ex-Special Operations agent, and traces her romantic and political exploits in post-World War II London, where the Cold War is about to reshape old loyalties As Allied forces close in on Berli...

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  Prague Spring
  

  • Oct-2018
  • / Historical
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  New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room Simon Mawer returns to Czechoslovakia, this time during the turbulent 1960s, with a suspenseful story that mixes sex, politics, and betrayal.In the summer of 1968--a year of love and hate, of Prague...

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  Ancestry
  

  • Nov-2022
  • / Historical
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  The New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Room brings a slice of his own family history to life through extensive research and rich storytelling.Beginning with his great-great-grandfather Abraham Block, acclaimed novelist Simon Mawer sifts t...

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