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By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9780141191829
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A notice in "The Times" addressed to 'Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April'. Four very different women take up the offer, escaping dreary London for the sunshine of Italy.
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9781784870461
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY BRENDA BOWEN
Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday.
(Hardback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9780241619742
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9781847497215
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Here presented in a new edition to include pictures and an extensive section on von Arnim's life and works, The Enchanted April has inspired generations of readers since and established Portofino and the Italian Riviera as a mainstay of the tourist circuit
(Paperback)
By: Elizabeth Von Arnim
ISBN: 9780008663858
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2025
UK Publication Date: 12th September 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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(Paperback)
By: Samuel Beckett
ISBN: 9780241338971
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Henry James
ISBN: 9780141441405
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.
(Hardback)
By: G K Chesterton
ISBN: 9781841593371
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Everyman
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Included here are some of the well-loved Father Brown detective stories, surely among the best in the genre, and a range of poetry, serious and light-hearted - Chesterton wrote some of the best nonsense and satirical verse in the language.
(Paperback)
By: Patrick White
ISBN: 9780143791041
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
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(Paperback)
By: Mikhail Bulgakov
ISBN: 9781847493712
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
UK Publication Date: 17th July 2014
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Set in 1928 but written four years earlier, during Stalin's rise to power, The Fatal Eggs is both an early piece of science fiction reminiscent of H.G. Wells and a biting, brilliant satire of the consequences of the abuse of power and knowledge.
(Paperback)
By: William S. Burroughs
ISBN: 9780241339077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2018
UK Publication Date: 22nd February 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN: 9780241476086
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th March 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, New edition)
By: Henry Handel Richardson
ISBN: 9781921922282
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
Publisher: Text Publishing
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He had never got within measurable distance of what he called life, at all...deep down in him, he knew, was an enormous residue of vitality...It was like a buried treasure, jealously kept for the event of his one day catching up with life: not the bare scramble for a living that here went by that name, but Life with a capital L.
(Hardback)
By: Vincente Blasco Ibez
ISBN: 9781513135588
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2022
Publisher: West Margin Press
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(Hardback)
By: Josephine Tey
ISBN: 9781529090376
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2023
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2023
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A young girl claims she was kidnapped and abused, but who is really telling the truth
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By: John Fowles
ISBN: 9780099478331
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2005
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2004
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea. Charles falls in love, but Sarah is a digraced woman, and their romance will defy all the stifling conventions of the Victorian age.
(Paperback)
By: Yukio Mishima
ISBN: 9780241675311
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: 9780140455090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st July 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A collection of one novella and six short stories - "The Gambler", "Bobok", "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man", "A Christmas Party and a Wedding", "A Nasty Story" and "The Meek One".
(Paperback)
By: Katherine Mansfield
ISBN: 9780241341643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback, New edition)
By: Henry Handel Richardson
ISBN: 9781922079404
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
Publisher: Text Publishing
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The classic Australian novel of school days, a compelling and frank account of a young girl's coming of age.
(Hardback)
By: O. Henry
ISBN: 9780241597019
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9781841591520
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 6th September 2007
Publisher: Everyman
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When Sam Marlowe falls in love with his cousin's sparky ex-fiance he finds himself up against stiff opposition from her millionaire father, her father's best friend and the best friend's son for whom she is destined, all of them travelling together aboard the RMS Atlantic.
(Paperback)
By: Hermann Hesse
ISBN: 9780099283621
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2000
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2000
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately coded game is a fusion of all human knowledge - of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult.
(Paperback)
By: L. P. Hartley
ISBN: 9780141187785
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2004
UK Publication Date: 29th January 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deeper and deeper into their dangerous game of deceit and desire, until his role brings him to a shocking and premature revelation.
