Patricia Duncker

• Apr-1998
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-1998
• / General Fiction
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Obsessed with finding and liberating author Paul Michel, an asylum-incarcerated schizophrenic, the narrator, a devoted reader, begins a search that takes him from the archives of Cambridge University to the depths of his own mad mind. Reprint. 12,500...

• Jan-1999
• / General Fiction
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So begins The Doctor, a provocative, illuminating novel based on a true story about a brilliant female physician who is compelled to live as a man under the name James Miranda Barry. Patricia Duncker traces Barry's incredible life over the course of ...

• Jul-2002
• / Fantasy
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• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2003
• / General Fiction
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Illuminating the dark side of the erotic, these interwoven stories explore obsession, violence, and the thin line between sex and death. Under a Mediterranean sun a man searches for the Temple of Zeus as his wife awaits her stalker; a sex worker at a...

• Dec-2005
• / General Fiction
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Chevalier d'Albert fantasizes about his ideal lover, yet every woman he meets falls short of his exacting standards of female perfection. Embarking on an affair with the lovely Rosette to ease his boredom, he is thrown into tumultuous confusion when ...

• Jan-2007
• / General Fiction
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The moment that changes a life could be strange or ordinary, small or shocking: a tramp at a train station; a red dress in a department store window; visiting an ex-lover; stealing a car; or knocking on the wrong door. In these 28 stories that areÂ...

• May-2007
• / General Fiction
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• Jul-2010
• / Suspense
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The bodies are discovered on New Year's Day, sixteen dead in the freshly fallen snow. The adults lie stiff in a semicircle; the children, in pajamas and overcoats, are curled at their feet. When he hears the news, Commissaire André Schweigen kno...

• Aug-2015
• / Literary
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In Berlin, Max Duncker and his brother, Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business, which owes its success to one woman: the Sibyl, or Mary Ann Evans, better known as George Eliot, who is writing the final installment of her bestselling serial "Mid...

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At the turn of the nineteenth century, ten-year-old James Miranda Barry enrolled as a medical student in Edinburgh, the start of a glorious career as a military surgeon. Across the Empire, Barry achieved fame not only as a brilliant physician, but...