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By: Wallace Thurman
ISBN: 9781784877576
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2023
UK Publication Date: 29th September 2022
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A moving tale of the hardships faced by African-American post-emancipation. A detailed exploration of the discrimination within the black community based on skin colour, with a higher value being placed on lighter skin.
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By: Sadegh Hedayat
ISBN: 9780714544588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2017
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Written in Persian, The Blind Owl is predominantly a love story - an unconventional love story that elicits visions and nightmare reveries from the depths of the reader's subconscious.
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By: L. P. Hartley
ISBN: 9781848548114
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2013
Publisher: John Murray Press
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A complex masterpiece of observation. English village life in war-time Britain is brought to life.
(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: Angela Thirkell
ISBN: 9781844089703
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2014
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A delightfully appealing 1930s comedy from Angela Thirkell's classic Barsetshire series: the Brandons cheerfully confront matters of love, money and an ill-tempered dowager aunt.
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By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9781857150704
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1997
UK Publication Date: 1st May 1997
Publisher: Everyman
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The BROTHERS KARAMAZOV - Dostoevsky's most widely read novel - is at once a murder mystery, a mordant comedy of family intrigue, a pioneering work of psychological realism and an unblinking look into the abyss of human suffering.
(Paperback)
By: Jack London
ISBN: 9780804168854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Jack London
ISBN: 9781509841769
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 21st September 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Jack London's two timeless animal stories about life in the freezing wastelands of North America.
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By: Jack London
ISBN: 9780007420230
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 1st January 2011
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: Geoffrey Chaucer
ISBN: 9780007449446
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.
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By: Geoffrey Chaucer
ISBN: 9780141442297
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, this title includes tales which can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London.
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By: Oscar Wilde
ISBN: 9780141192666
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous: 'The Canterville Ghost', in which a young American girl helps to free the tormented spirit that haunts an old English castle and 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed. Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.
(Paperback)
By: Arnold Bennett
ISBN: 9780241255544
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2016
UK Publication Date: 28th July 2016
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Freeman Wills Crofts
ISBN: 9780008333942
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the Collins Crime Club archive, the seminal first novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed The King of Detective Story Writers and recognised as one of the big four Golden Age crime authors.
(Hardback)
By: Franz Kafka
ISBN: 9781857151275
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1992
UK Publication Date: 8th October 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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Summoned to take up the position of a land surveyor to the mysterious lord of a castle, the character known as K. finds himself in a bitter and baffling struggle to contact his new employer and go about his duties.
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By: P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9780099513865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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A Golf collection
The Oldest Member knows everything that has ever happened on the golf course - and a great deal more besides.
Take the story of Cuthbert, for instance.
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By: Reginald Hill
ISBN: 9780007334780
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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From the bestselling author of the Dalziel and Pascoe series, a superb novel of wartime passion, loyalty and betrayal
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By: Edgar Allan Poe
ISBN: 9780679600077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1992
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Gathers stories, essays, and poems, including "The Gold-Bug," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Raven," "Lenore," and "Annabel Lee".
(Hardback)
By: Kahlil Gibran
ISBN: 9781841593104
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2007
Publisher: Everyman
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Includes "The Madman", "The Forerunner", "The Prophet", "Sand and Foam", "Jesus the Son of Man", "Earth Gods", "The Wanderer", "The Garden of the Prophet", "Prose Poems", "Spirits Rebellious", "Nymphs of the Valley" and "A Tear and a Smile".
(Paperback)
By: Muriel Spark
ISBN: 9781844085538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Muriel Spark's stunning debut novel
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By: Mary McCarthy
ISBN: 9781844085941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Published in 1942, Mary McCarthy's first novel creates a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle.
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By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781847679192
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2010
Publisher: Canongate Books
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant, swashbuckling classic, now reissued
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By: Anthony Burgess
ISBN: 9780099541431
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in Morocco, expounding on his notorious sex film on a TV chat show, or writing a hit musical based on the life and work of Shakespeare, Enderby emerges triumphant.
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By: G K Chesterton
ISBN: 9781849906463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 10th January 2013
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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The character of Father Brown, brought to life by Mark Williams, is based on a real parish priest and the idea that priests, through hearing Confession, know the worst of human nature more than anyone, including the police.
