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By: John Sutherland
ISBN: 9780140430493
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 1980
UK Publication Date: 25th September 1980
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Set in the reign of Queen Anne, this title presents a story that follows the troubled progress of a gentleman and an officer in Marlborough's army, as he painfully wrestles with an emotional allegiance to the old Tory-Catholic England until, disillusioned, he comes to terms of a kind with the Whiggish-Protestant future.
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By: J I M Stewart
ISBN: 9780140430769
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1986
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A portrait of England in the 1830s and 40s. It presents the character of Pendennis and the world in which he lives: from miserable schoolboy to striving journalist, from carefree Oxbridge to the high (and low) life of London.
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By: Elizabeth Bowen
ISBN: 9780099284758
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2003
UK Publication Date: 6th March 2003
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera Filled with prosperous English visitors, the Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. With great wit and insight Elizabeth Bowen's first novel lays bare the intricacies and eccentricities of polite society.
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By: Charles Chesnutt
ISBN: 9780812966169
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2004
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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John Walden, a young black man, decides to pass for white in post-Civil War North Carolina in order to achieve the American dream.
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By: J. Jefferson Farjeon
ISBN: 9780008155865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The return of Ben, the prince of tramps with his rich Cockney humour and nave philosophies and in trouble as usual.
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By: Mike Lawson
ISBN: 9780007197934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The West Wing meets 24 in a pace-ridden thriller of conspiracy, corruption and cold-blooded murder.
The Invisible Eye: Tales of Terror by Emile Erckmann and Louis Alexandre Chatrian (Collins Chillers)
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By: Emile Erckmann
ISBN: 9780008265380
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A collection of the finest supernatural tales by two of the best Victorian writers of weird tales ErckmannChatrian, authors who inspired M. R. James, H. P. Lovecraft, and many others.
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By: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780375760969
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Following a shipwreck, a young naturalist finds himself on an island run by a mad scientist intent on creating a strain of beast men.
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By: Jack Higgins
ISBN: 9780006514671
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Super-spy Paul Chavasse one of Jack Higginss most extraordinary heroes embarks on a mission to Albania, only to find himself at the centre of a deadly double-cross, fighting for his life.
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By: J. A. Kerley
ISBN: 9780007328239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Detective Carson Ryders reputation is on the line when a sociopathic serial killer embarks on a personal vendetta, constructing his crimes to hit Carsons weak spot.
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By: Harry Crews
ISBN: 9780143137931
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 31st October 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780812968231
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2003
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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This title is an example of Tolstoy's thought on spiritual crisis, Christianity and sexuality and an exquisite introduction to the great Russian writer. This edition also includes the controversial Sequel to the Kreutzer Sonata.
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By: John Gordon Davis
ISBN: 9780007574421
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A heart-stopping adventure A chilling Nazi legacy in todays Southern Africa.
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By: Michael Pearce
ISBN: 9780006510819
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Novel set in the Egypt of the 1900s.
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By: Michael Pearce
ISBN: 9780008259495
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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In this classic mystery from Michael Pearces award-winning series, set in the Egypt of the 1900s, the Mamur Zapt investigates the discovery of a young womans body at the site of a dam.
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By: Mary Shelley
ISBN: 9780143137900
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 5th September 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: James Fenimore Cooper
ISBN: 9780140390247
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1986
UK Publication Date: 27th November 1986
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Angered by the values of his materialistic society, Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men, sharing the solitude and sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend, Chingachgook. As the savageries of war test these exiled men, they agree to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile Indian country.
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By: Stephen Miller
ISBN: 9780007191239
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2008
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Intelligent thriller set against the backdrop of Tsarist Russia.
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By: Helen Forrester
ISBN: 9780006177487
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 1991
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A novel of Liverpool and Canada.
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By: Laurence Sterne
ISBN: 9780099519157
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th November 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Doomed to become the 'sport of fortune' by an interruption at the crucial moment of conception, Tristram Shandy's life lurches from one mishap to another: his nose crushed by the doctor's forceps during birth, christened with the wrong name, an unfortunate incident involving a slamming sash window.
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By: Laurence Sterne
ISBN: 9780375761195
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2004
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Stephen Baxter
ISBN: 9780006483748
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter. What happens when the Mind of God is replaced with the Chronovisor
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By: Robert Low
ISBN: 9780007486045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A NATION WILL FIGHT FOR ITS FREEDOM.
Scotland in turmoil. Robert Low at his best.
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By: Giorgio Vasari
ISBN: 9780375760365
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2006
UK Publication Date: 14th February 2006
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Celebrates the lives and times of the great Renaissance artists of Italy, written by sixteenth-century artist and historian Giorgio Vasari.
