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(Paperback)
By: Alexandre Dumas
ISBN: 9780140448924
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2003
UK Publication Date: 24th April 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set at the height of the "tulipomania" that gripped Holland in the 17th century, this is the story of Cornelius van Baerle, a humble grower whose sole desire is to grow the perfect specimen of the tulip negra.
(Paperback)
By: Margaret Cavendish
ISBN: 9780241746813
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Rosemary Tonks
ISBN: 9781784877804
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th May 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Anita Amirrezvani
ISBN: 9780755334216
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2008
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Long-listed for the Orange Prize. A stunning and evocative novel set in exotic seventeenth-century Iran, with the power of THE KITE RUNNER, A THOUSAND SPLENDID SUNS and HALF OF A YELLOW SUN.
(Paperback)
By: Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN: 9780241696453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
UK Publication Date: 3rd October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Tom Wolfe
ISBN: 9780099541271
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2010
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed 'Master of the Universe'. He has a fashionable wife, a Park Avenue apartment and a Southern mistress. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in an accident in the Bronx. Prosecutors, newspaper hacks, politicians and clergy close in on him, determined to bring him down.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9780571276639
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2011
UK Publication Date: 2nd June 2011
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Written with breath-taking urgency and precision, this stunning novel plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragedy, the real and the imagined, the violent and the tender dissolve into one another.
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By: Itzik Manger
ISBN: 9781782279259
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2023
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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The raucously witty Yiddish classic about a Jewish Paradise afflicted by very human temptations and pains, in a new translation
(Paperback)
By: Henry James
ISBN: 9780140437669
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 14th August 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer arrives to Boston in search of a career. Through his cousin, Olive Chancellor, Ransom comes to meet Verena, the beautiful daughter of a charlatan faith-healer. Olive hopes to win the girl over to the feminist cause, Ransom is attracted to her looks, and a battle for possession of the girl begins.
(Hardback)
By: Henry James
ISBN: 9781857150827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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Tells the story of Basil Ransom, a bemused and handsome lawyer from the American South who battles with the earnest feminists of Boston for the soul of the beautiful Verena Tarrant, whom he hopes to marry - and whom they hope to recruit to their cause.
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By: Patricia Highsmith
ISBN: 9780349006253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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First published in 1980, this is the fourth novel in Highsmith's hugely influential, groundbreaking Ripley series.
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By: Leonid Tsypkin
ISBN: 9780571386918
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 21st November 2024
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Experience the absurdities and tragedies of life in the Soviet Union in this extraordinary story collection by the lost Russian master behind cult classic Summer in Baden-Baden.
(Hardback, Bonded Leather)
By: Emily Bronte
ISBN: 9781435137202
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 19th July 2012
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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The Bronte family was a literary phenomenon unequalled before or since. Both Charlotte's Jane Eyre and Emily's Wuthering Heights have won lofty places in the pantheon of literature and stirred the romantic sensibilities of generations of readers.
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By: Jacob Grimm
ISBN: 9781607107309
Readership/Audience: Young Adult
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Canterbury Classics
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Terrifying tales and frightening fables at their finest!
(Hardback)
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: 9780241655566
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: 9780140449242
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts.
(Paperback)
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9780099922803
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1992
UK Publication Date: 16th January 1992
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Presents erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov and his three sons. This book portrays the social and spiritual strivings in Russian culture.
(Paperback)
By: Mary Renault
ISBN: 9781844089628
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2015
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The sequel to Mary Renault's classic The King Must Die, which continues the story of the mythological hero Theseus after his return from Crete.
(Paperback)
By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9780241372593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback, New edition)
By: Jack London
ISBN: 9781839649691
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 17th May 2022
Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing
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Jack London's classic tale, with four short stories. The Flame Tree Collectable Classics are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges.
(Hardback)
By: Jack London
ISBN: 9780785839897
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2022
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2022
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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The Call of the Wild (1903) and White Fang (1906) are two classic American adventure novels by Jack London depicting the evolution of two dogs in the wild, now presented together in this elegantly designed jacketed hardcover edition.
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By: Catherine Carswell
ISBN: 9780712355070
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2024
UK Publication Date: 15th August 2024
Publisher: British Library Publishing
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Scottish fictional counterpart to Virginia Woolf's feminist essay 'A Room of One's Own'.
(Paperback)
By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9780241678916
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th June 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9780241197806
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2015
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he encounters dualities of certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K.'s struggles in the labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveals a truth about the nature of existence.
