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By: Franz Kafka

ISBN: 9780805211061
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 1998
UK Publication Date: 15th December 1998
Publisher: Schocken Books
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A tale about K, who arrives in a village dominated by a castle, begging for the approval of elusive, anonymous powers. From the author of THE TRIAL.


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By: John Updike

ISBN: 9780141189048
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 30th August 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life.


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By: Jean Lartguy

ISBN: 9780143107446
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st October 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offering a military adventure, an extended symposium on waging war in a new global order, and an essential investigation of the ethics of counterinsurgency, this wartime novel is about controversial tactics in hot spots around the world.


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By: Stella Gibbons

ISBN: 9780099560548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Thrown out of her long-established office job, Miss Christine Smith takes up a new role as housekeeper for a group of middle-aged artists. Written in the 1960s, surrounded by social and political transitions, the novel focuses on change, or the lack thereof.


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By: Louisa May Alcott

ISBN: 9780099664116
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1996
Publisher: Cornerstone
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When Phillip Tempest - charming, devastatingly handsome and almost twice Rosamond's age - mysteriously appears one stormy night he finds a peach ripe for the plucking. 'I am willing to pay for my pleasure if necessary,' Rosamond asserts boldly, but nothing can prepare her for the life that Phillip Tempest will lure her into sharing with him.


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By: Nevil Shute

ISBN: 9780099530022
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very different men he met briefly during the war: an snobbish British pilot, a young corporal accused of murder, and a black G.I.


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By: Raphael Sabatini

ISBN: 9780099528463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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One-time doctor and fugitive from the Monmouth rebellion, Peter Blood escaped from slavery to become the terror of the Caribbean. Winning invaluable treasures, rescuing his crew from almost certain death and saving an English settlement are all in a day's work for fiction's boldest adventurer.


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By: Izaak Walton

ISBN: 9780375751486
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1998
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Since its first publication in 1653, this classic celebration of the joys of fishing is for anglers and nature lovers. This is the 1676 fifth edition and is reproduced with nineteenth-century woodcuts and engravings and an introduction by Howell Raines.


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By: Alfred De Musset

ISBN: 9780141391854
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offering a vivid, opulent portrayal of obsession and despair, this title is also a philosophical portrait of a man and his times, expressing the failed idealism of the Romantic generation of the early nineteenth century. It presents a honest, passionate account of a young man's rite of passage.


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By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9780812975048
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2006
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Presents a story where purpose is found in the atmosphere of war. This goes for the jaded Olenin, an heir to a fortune that he had half squandered until he abandons his jaded life as a Moscow socialite for the adventures as a soldier in the Caucasus where he finds his purpose and true love.


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By: Sarah Orne Jewett

ISBN: 9780385092142
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1999
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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A wandering writer, who boards at a herbalist's house in Maine, finds himself becoming more and more involved in the lives of the villagers.


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By: Ava McCarthy

ISBN: 9780007285921
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Cutting-edge international thriller follow-up to The Insider, set in the world of hackers, techno-thieves and inside traders, for fans of John Grisham


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By: Irne Nmirovsky

ISBN: 9780099493983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2008
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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From the author of the bestselling Suite Franaise.

In 1903 Lon M - the son of two Russian revolutionaries - is given the responsibility of 'liquidating' Valerian Alexandrovitch Courilof, the notoriously brutal and cold-blooded Russian Minister of Education, by the Revolutionary Committee.


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By: Sam Savage

ISBN: 9780753826553
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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From the author of FIRMIN, a tale of life and literature.


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By: Harold Frederic

ISBN: 9780375760358
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: J. A. Kerley

ISBN: 9780007493654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Detective Carson Ryder faces his most terrifying adversary yet in this nail-biting thriller from the author of Her Last Scream.


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By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9780307951335
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2012
UK Publication Date: 29th October 2012
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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The story of the life and death at the age of forty-five of a high court prosecutor in 19th-century Russia, this is an examination of loss and the possibilities of redemption, in which Tolstoy explores the dichotomy between the artificial and the authentic life.


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Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
UK Publication Date: 29th April 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Recounting the final days of Arthur and set in a world of fading chivalric glory, this title depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the weakness of Arthur's own knights.


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By: mile Zola

ISBN: 9780140442809
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 1973
UK Publication Date: 27th March 1975
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Conservative and working-class, Jean Macquart is an experienced, middle-aged soldier in the French army, who has endured deep personal loss. When he first meets the wealthy and mercurial Maurice Levasseur, who never seems to have suffered, his hatred is immediate.


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By: Matthew Plampin

ISBN: 9780007273973
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A novel of intrigue, violence and conflicted loyalties from the author of The Street Philosopher.


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By: George Grossmith

ISBN: 9780241956861
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Mr Pooter is a man of modest ambition, content with his clerkly lot. So why is he always in trouble with disagreeable tradesmen, young clerks and wayward friends And what is he to do about his son Lupin's distinctly unsuitable choice of bride However hard he tries, life piles its little mishaps on his head - but he's not about to give up.


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By: Thomas Hardy

ISBN: 9780140431247
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1979
UK Publication Date: 25th October 1979
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Twining

ISBN: 9780007190157
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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James Bond meets The Thomas Crown Affair in a spellbinding tale of international intrigue and suspense.


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Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 1975
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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