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By: Nevil Shute

ISBN: 9781784876166
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th July 2019
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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When Tom Cutter hires Constantine Shaklin as an engineer in his air freight business, he little realises the extraordinary gifts of his new recruit. As Cutter's business grows across Asia, so does Shaklin's fame, until he is widely regarded as a unifying deity.


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By: Tara Moore

ISBN: 9781409102779
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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RSVP is a sumptuous family saga, packed with sex, love and betrayal. Now who could refuse an invitation like that...


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By: Ivan Turgenev

ISBN: 9781847492265
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 21st June 2012
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Rudin, Turgenev's first novel, is a subtle examination of human weakness which foreshadows many of the themes in the author's later work, with its lead character personifying the type of the "superfluous man" which came to dominate much of the literature of nineteenth-century Russia.


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By: Halldr Laxness

ISBN: 9781784877606
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
UK Publication Date: 10th February 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A BRAND NEW TRANSLATION OF LAXNESS' TALE OF POVERTY AND GREED

Set at the start of the twentieth century in a fictional Icelandic fishing village, Salka Valka follows the struggles of a penniless woman, Sigurlna, and her daughter, Salka Valka.


(Hardback)

By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9781857152258
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1996
UK Publication Date: 28th March 1996
Publisher: Everyman
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The volume is arranged in two parts, with the mature stories in Part 1 edited for easy reading, and the juvenilia collected by Austen herself presented exactly as she wrote them in Part 2.


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By: Rafael Sabatini

ISBN: 9780099529859
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BERNARD CORNWELL

When Andre-Louis witnesses the murder of his best friend by an arrogant and privileged aristocrat he swears to avenge his death. His ensuing adventures involve hair-raising duels, romance, treachery and shocking family secrets all handled with brilliance and wit by this extraordinary hero.


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By: Stendhal

ISBN: 9781857150384
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1991
UK Publication Date: 26th September 1991
Publisher: Everyman
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In this account of a disillusioned soul failing to come to terms with reality, the novelist recreates the Byronic anti-hero in the context of post-revolutionary France where the church, politics and society itself are in upheaval.


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By: Hans Herbert Grimm

ISBN: 9780099595786
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A GERMAN CLASSIC FROM A FORGOTTEN AUTHOR

Schlump is seventeen, a romantic, a chancer and a dreamer. But when he gets to the trenches, where death and mindless destruction are the everyday, he starts to understand something about war. Funny, brutal and charming, heres the First World War from the perspective of the inimitable Schlump.


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By: Ngugi wa Thiong'o

ISBN: 9781784873370
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2018
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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By: Francesco Petrarch

ISBN: 9781847494689
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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"Secretum" - Petrarch's best-known work in Latin - is a fascinating and pioneering example of the autobiographical genre.


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By: William Wordsworth

ISBN: 9781529011890
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A gorgeous gift edition of William Wordsworth's greatest poems, with an introduction by Peter Harness.


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By: Rabindranath Tagore

ISBN: 9780007925582
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.


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By: Guy de Maupassant

ISBN: 9781841594002
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th October 2021
Publisher: Everyman
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By: E.M. Forster

ISBN: 9780141186191
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2002
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of stories of the author whose stories - whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, or in England itself - contrast the freedom of paganism with the restraints of English civilization, the personal, sensual delights of the body with the impersonal, inhibiting rules imposed by society.


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By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780755331451
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2006
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
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Two sisters, both on the brink of falling in love and living happily ever after. But can life ever be that simple


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By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780099511557
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2007
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2007
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way

Discover the beloved story of sisters, love and society that launched Jane Austens career.

Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous.


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By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780143106524
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Marianne Dashwood wears her heart on her sleeve, and when she falls in love with the dashing but unsuitable John Willoughby she ignores her sister Elinor's warning that her impulsive behaviour leaves her open to gossip and innuendo. Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment.


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By: P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN: 9781841591667
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2010
UK Publication Date: 26th March 2010
Publisher: Everyman
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With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury, mischievous Church Lads camping in his park, his sister Constance bossing him unmercifully, and Lavender Briggs, his secretary, making life miserable, Lord Emsworth has little time to concentrate on the invasion of Blandings Castle by yet another impostor.


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By: P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN: 9780099513995
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2008
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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A Blandings novel

As a peer of the realm, Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has an occasional duty to leave the Empress of Blandings, surely the most considerable pig in the whole world, and travel to London for the opening of parliament.


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By: Isak Dinesen

ISBN: 9780141187198
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2002
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of seven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. It is shot through with themes of love and desire - from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels.


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By: Terry Goodkind

ISBN: 9780007510894
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2015
UK Publication Date: 12th March 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From Terry Goodkind, author of the Sword of Truth series, comes a sweeping new novel of Richard Rahl, Kahlan Amnell, and their world.


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By: Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN: 9781911547419
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 8th November 2018
Publisher: Daunt Books
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Found at the corner of Goodge Street, a goose and a black felt hat. Mr Henry Baker can have the same by applying at 6.30 this evening at 221b, Baker Street.


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By: Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN: 9781984899538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2020
UK Publication Date: 14th April 2020
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN: 9781849903677
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2011
UK Publication Date: 27th October 2011
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the classic Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stories, and has helped introduce a whole new generation of fans to the legendary detective.

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