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By: Alain Robbe-Grillet

ISBN: 9780714548593
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 22nd November 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Written in 1949 but only published in 1979, Robbe-Grillet's first novel is a disquieting and satirical avant-garde political thriller which bridges the gap between traditional novel and the nouveau roman genre he would later espouse and make famous.


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By: Philippa Gregory

ISBN: 9780006473374
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1996
UK Publication Date: 16th October 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century Bristol are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances and her Yoruban slave, Mehuru.


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By: Gustave Flaubert

ISBN: 9780141397504
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2015
UK Publication Date: 26th February 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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With pathos and humour, the author imagines the unexamined life of a servant girl.


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By: Molly Green

ISBN: 9780008332501
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 18th March 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Dont miss the new uplifting historical saga series from Molly Green, set at famous Bletchley Park: Summer Secrets at Bletchley Park available to pre-order now!


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By: Hans Fallada

ISBN: 9780141196565
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the "Pomeranian Chronicle" - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kruger's bar, the farmers are plotting their revenge on greedy officials.


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By: Richard Yates

ISBN: 9780099518631
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Bobby is eighteen and lost on the battlefields of Europe, stumbling his way through World War II.

Richard Yates's novel is both tender and ironic as he follows Bobby's adventures and disasters and reflects on the intense but complicated bond between mother and son.


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By: Ivan Turgenev

ISBN: 9781857150544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1992
UK Publication Date: 19th March 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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These stories of the 19th-century Russian rural landscape and the difficult life of those who inhabited it were universally popular with the reading public at large and contributed in no small measure to the emancipation of the serfs in 1861.


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By: Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN: 9780099530534
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Discover the first classic Sherlock Holmes novel in this stunning edition, featuring an introduction from Mark Billingham.


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9781857151435
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1993
UK Publication Date: 18th March 1993
Publisher: Everyman
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Famous for the character of Sidney Carton who sacrifices himself upon the guillotine' it is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done '- the novel is also a powerful study of crowd psychology and the dark emotions aroused by the Revolution, illuminated by Dickens' lively comedy


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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9780007350896
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.


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By: Louisa May Alcott

ISBN: 9780785238706
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 12th November 2020
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
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This holiday season, give the readers in your life a beautiful collection of timeless Christmas stories and poems they will surely cherish for years to come.


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By: Various

ISBN: 9781784875077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A Vintage Christmas captures the very essence of what Christmas means to us and what real magic can be found, written by some of the worlds finest authors, including Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthony Trollope, Laurie Lee, E.


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By: L. Frank Baum

ISBN: 9780812974942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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For more than a century, L. Frank Baum's kingdom of Oz and its delightful denizens have enchanted readers of all ages. Now, bestselling novelist Maguire ("Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West") introduces new readers to three of Baum's beloved Oz stories. Illustrations.


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By: Elizabeth Bowen

ISBN: 9781784873950
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th October 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A packet of letters, found in an attic, leads young Jane into the world of love. During a hot and dry summer, Jane pursues her romantic imaginings, while not far off the rich, promiscuous Lady Latterly waits to play her part in Jane's awakening.


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By: Mikhail Afanasevich Bulgakov

ISBN: 9781847492869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2012
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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In this collection of short stories, drawing heavily from the author's own experiences as a medical graduate on the eve of the Russian Revolution, Bulgakov describes a young doctor's turbulent and often brutal introduction to his practice in the backward village of Muryovo. It includes the piece Morphine


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By: Benjamin Constant

ISBN: 9781935554097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2010
Publisher: Melville House Publishing
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Translation originally published: Patheon Books, 1948.


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By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9780375757372
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Jim, a runaway slave, joins Huck Finn, who is fleeing from his cruel father, and together, they journey by raft down the Mississippi River.


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By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9780451530943
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Tom Sawyer's pal Huck Finn finds himself on the run, floating down the Mississippi with Jim, a runaway slave. With rich description as well as sharp satire, Twain vividly recreates the world he had known as a child. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue.


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By: Aesop

ISBN: 9780451529534
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2006
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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More than 200 fables.


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By: Aldous Huxley

ISBN: 9781784870355
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Jo Stoyte is afraid of death. Written while he was living in California, this is Huxleys response to Hollywoods superficiality and obsession with youth, a powerful cautionary tale which employs all his customary wit and merciless insight.


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By: Jerome K. Jerome

ISBN: 9781847496225
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 22nd September 2016
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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A masterful work of comic horror, Jerome K. Jerome's After-Supper Ghost Stories is a witty look at why Christmas Eve is so perfect for ghost stories and why ghosts love the Yuletide season.


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By: Anne Hart

ISBN: 9780008340278
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The definitive companion to the POIROT novels, short stories, films and TV appearances, now revised and updated.


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By: Anne Hart

ISBN: 9780008340285
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The definitive companion to the MISS MARPLE novels, short stories, films and TV appearances, now revised and updated.


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By: Anne Bronte

ISBN: 9781841593432
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2012
Publisher: Everyman
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Set in the dramatic northern landscape made familiar by the author's more famous sisters, this title tells the story of Helen Graham, a mysterious single woman who rents the semi-ruinous Hall of the title.

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