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From the author of the international bestseller The Quincunx When his nation is invaded and occupied by a brutal enemy, a man persuades his wife that they should give temporary shelter to a young girl who is at school with their daughter. He has no idea that the girl belongs to a community against whom the invader intends to commit genocide. Days stretch into weeks and then months while the enemy's pitiless hatred of the girl's community puts ...

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Excerpt from Practical Concrete-Block Making: A Simple Practical Treatise for the Workman, Explaining the Selection of the Materials and the Making of Substantial Concrete Blocks and Cement Brick, Together With Directions for Making Molds and Remarks on How to Obtain the Best Architectural EffectsIf the blame for such poor work was put on the maker, who is at fault, we would have nothing to say, but the ver dict is usually against concrete blo...

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An extraordinary modern novel in the Victorian tradition, Charles Palliser has created something extraordinary--a plot within a plot within a plot of family secrets, mysterious clues, low-born birth, high-reaching immorality, and, always, always the fog-enshrouded, enigmatic character of 19th century -- London itself."You read the first page and down you wonderfully fall, into a long, large, wide world of fiction."THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

Charles Palliser's work has been hailed as "so compulsively absorbing that reality disappears" (New York Times). Since his extraordinary debut, The Quincunx, his works have sold over one million copies worldwide. With his new novel, Rustication, he returns to the town of Thurchester, which he evoked so hauntingly in The Unburied. It is winter 1863, and Richard Shenstone, aged seventeen, has been sent down-"rusticated"-from Cambridge under a cl...

Charles Palliser wrote a number of books on the proper use of concrete in the early 20th Century, including Practical Concrete-Block Making, which explains "the selection of materials and the making of substantial concrete blocks and cement brick.

Excerpt from Practical Concrete-Block Making: A Simple Practical Treatise for the Workman, Explaining the Selection of the Materials and the Making of Substantial Concrete Blocks and Cement Brick, Together With Directions for Making Molds and Remarks on How to Obtain the Best Architectural EffectsIm this little book the writer has tried to put in simple language directions for making blocks, based upon an experience of thirty years in concrete...

At once a hypnotic murder mystery, scathing literary parody, soap opera, and brilliant pastiche, Betrayals is an astonishing virtuouso performance by a modern master of literary gamesmanship in the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov and John Barth.The novel unforlds in a series of seemingly unrelated narratives, each written in a different style -- indeed, in a different genre. There is an obituary for a Scottish scientist and Nobel Prize winner, w...

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In Victorian England, Dr. Courtine is invited to spend the days before Christmas with Austin, a friend from his youth, in the Cathedral Close of Thurchester. Courtine hopes to research an unsolved mystery at the cathedral library, but when Austin captivates him with the story of the town ghost -- a macabre tale of murder and deception dating back two centuries -- Courtine finds himself drawn instead into a haunting world of avarice, skulldugge...

New edition with 16 page appendix.