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The Welcoming Committee

By: Imogen De La Bere

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A twentieth-century Faust, musician turned wine merchant, Crawford Hollander has done well from his deal with the devil. Successful, charming, surrounded by a circle of adoring women, he has cajoled, manipulated and cheated his way to riches. But Crawford has also accumulated enemies. On his return to his native New Zealand, three men are waiting for him. They have formed the Welcoming Committee, and have prepared a very special form of revenge-Crawford is the most complex and most magnificent of Imogen de la Bere's villains, and the novel through which he struts is her best yet - gripping, funny and deliciously tolerant of human frailty.

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1446483908

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9781446483909

Understanding Of Jenner Ransfield

By: Imogen De La Bere

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Understanding Of Jenner Ransfield

By: Imogen De La Bere

Jenner Ransfield, a man endowed with a brilliant academic mind, personal magnetism, but no self-control, tormented by demons of Laurentian sexuality and Calvinist upbringing, fumes out his existence on a farm in Somerset, teaching at a lowly Agricultural College, and sporadically tyrannizing his family - his sad, suppressed wife Elspeth, who lives inside a romantic ballad and thinks of Jenner as her demon lover, and his two extraordinary children - May Margaret who carves wonders in wood that no man must see, and Robin who lives to keep the World Wide Web out of the Devil's hands. Into this dark world beams Theodora Potts, blond curls, white smile, pretty and neat as a sea-horse, an Australian veterinary scientist, who knows it all. She intends to study the harvesting of bull semen with the great Dr Ransfield, but nothing goes according to her plan, from the moment there slides into her life and her bed Fergal, an urban warrior whose special form of protest is to hang naked in tree-tops. The cast is now complete for a black comedy of almost Shakespearean richness.

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327

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1446484378

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9781446484371

Last Deception Of Palliser Wentwood

By: Imogen De La Bere

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Last Deception Of Palliser Wentwood

By: Imogen De La Bere

Palliser Wentwood, dangerously charming, has run away to England, leaving his farm in New Zealand, his beautiful wife Salome, his daughters, and his many creditors. Palliser is in search of a fortune, enough to restore the prosperity of farm and family. In Thule Hall, Herts, live the Lovelaces - Hubert and Blanche, brother and sister -both amazingly tall and immensely fat, shy and gothically retired. Engaged as butler, and posing as a grieving widower, Palliser turns his charms on Blanche, teasing out laughter and beauty where before there was only timidity. But will his deception succeed? Can he bring himself to ruin her? Or will Salome succumb to the gentle siege of Philip Butterworth, solicitor and suitor? An exceptional first novel, wise and funny and sad in equal measure, and peopled by a cast of characters as singular as they are delightful.

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1446484386

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The Welcoming Committee

By: Imogen De La Bere

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The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood

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A charming Irish rogue leaves his beautiful wife and daughters to search for a fortune to restore the prosperity of his farm and family. Alternately funny and sad, this story combines the pleasures of an old-fashioned novel with the delights of a contemporary heroine.

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0099272792

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The Welcoming Committee

The Welcoming Committee

Understanding Of Jenner Ransfield

Understanding Of Jenner Ransfield

Last Deception Of Palliser Wentwood

Last Deception Of Palliser Wentwood

The Welcoming Committee

The Welcoming Committee

Last Deception Of Palliser Wentwood

Last Deception Of Palliser Wentwood

The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood

The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood

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