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Adolphe is a privileged and refined young man, bored by the stupidity he perceives in the world around him. After a number of meaningless conquests, he at last encounters Ellenore, a beautiful and passionate older woman. But as they embark on an intense and tortured affair, Ellenore gives way to a flood of emotion.

(Paperback)

Set against the background of the Thirty Years' War, this 17th-century novel uses an artless and earthy language new to German literature at the time. It charts the saga of Simplicius as he undergoes wars, marriages, and travels that culminate on an uncharted South Atlantic island.

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Wanting nothing but the best for his beloved daughter, Nina, Kasper Almayer strives for fortune while inadvertently causing his own collapse with greed.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still less with his beautiful but stubborn daughter, Alix.But once the three of them reach the treacherous shores of Greenland their destinies are inextricably bound by the events that unfold there.

(Hardback)

(Paperback)

This classic crime novel by six different authors is introduced by Martin Edwards, archivist of the Detection Club, and includes a never-before-published Preface by Agatha Christie, Detective Writers in England, in which she discusses her approach to writing and her fellow writers in the Detection Club.

(Paperback, Media tie-in)

Even Barney Panofsky's friends tend to agree that he is 'a wife-abuser, an intellectual fraud, a purveyor of pap, a drunk with a penchant for violence and probably a murderer'.

(Paperback)

It is run by the unlikely partnership of balmy Miss Padsoe and young, cockney Miss Baker - divided by class and age, they are determined to dislike each other. Through their tale and the interwoven tribulations of two young lovers, Gibbons's sparkling novel explores the heart of friendship and what unites us.

(Paperback)

Beasts Royal is the second book written by Patrick OBrian made available, at last, for the first time since the 1930s and elegantly repackaged.

(Paperback)

Ben the tramp, with his usual genius for trouble, runs into danger when he finds a dead body and decides to help out.

(Paperback)

With his usual knack of getting into trouble, Ben the tramp finds himself hunted by the law and the lawless.in this breathless adventure.

(Paperback)

This presentation of the translation and the Old English text on facing pagesallows the reader to approach the first major poem in English literature in afresh and exciting new way. High school & older.

(Paperback)

If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. However, when Mollie travels to America to visit him the couple realise that their differences in background make their plans for a future together hard to realise.

(Paperback)

The international bestseller that shocked Europe.

(Paperback)

"Joseph Zobel's semi-autobiographical 1950 novel Black Shack Alley chronicles the coming-of-age of Jose, a young boy in colonial Martinique. This edition features a new foreword by Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau"--

(Paperback)

(Paperback)

Stunning psychic science thriller by the bestselling author of X-Files: Ground Zero and X-Files: Ruins.

(Paperback)

Powerful and relentless, the hunger pursues you like a wild beast without respite. You can resist it for hours, even days, but it eventually overwhelms your reason with its desire to be satisfied. Eat or be eaten, that was the terrible choice facing the eight convict bolters from Macquarie Harbour, Australia's most remote and brutal penal colony.

(Paperback)

'I will not live amongst you' are the only words Abigail Buwell will speak when she arrives at Fort 2881.

(Paperback)

Written during the 1890s, this collection of short stories presents a bleak and uncompromising image of life in the Australian Bush. These are not the stories of mates gathered around the fire, but of the dark loneliness of women.

(Paperback)

Michael Byrne is an Irish Don Juan - a composer, a charmer, a bigamist and a thug. He moves from country to country, from bed to bed, selling his talents and leaving a trail of children in his wake. His twin sons travel across the troubled face of Europe to pursue their father for one final apocalyptic reckoning.