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By: Owen Chase

ISBN: 9780140437966
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was sailing in the South Pacific when it was rammed by an angry sperm whale. The ship sank, leaving twenty crew members floating in three small boats for ninety days. This edition brings together the harrowing tales of the survivors.


(Paperback)

By: Will Adams

ISBN: 9780007286317
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Fact collides with fiction in Will Adams third pulse-pounding adventure featuring the enigmatic Daniel Knox.


(Paperback)

By: Alejo Carpentier

ISBN: 9780143133896
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 4th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Megan Shepherd

ISBN: 9780007500208
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A dark, breathless, beautifully-written gothic thriller of murder, madness and a mysterious island


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By: Alexandre Dumas

ISBN: 9780140439243
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
UK Publication Date: 28th August 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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In the final adventure of the Musketeers, the Man in the Iron Mask sees D'Artagnan remain in the service of the corrupt King Louis XIV after the Three Musketeers have gone their separate ways. Meanwhile a mysterious prisoner in an iron mask languishes in the Bastille, where he has been for eighteen years.


(Paperback)

By: Tom Knox

ISBN: 9780007342617
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The gripping new high-concept thriller from the author of The Genesis Secret, perfect for fans of Dan Brown and Sam Bourne.


(Paperback)

By: J. A. Kerley

ISBN: 9780007493678
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Detective Carson Ryder faces a cunning and inventive adversary in this terrifying thriller from the bestselling author of Her Last Scream.


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By: Dominic Smith

ISBN: 9781760296377
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
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An atmospheric and brilliant novel of Paris, love, madness and photography by the bestselling writer of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith.


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By: Iris Murdoch

ISBN: 9780099583288
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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For years, Alfred Ludens has pursued mathematician and philosopher Marcus Vallar in the belief that he possesses a profound metaphysical formula, a missing link of great significance to mankind. Patrick Fenman, poet, is dying because he thinks Marcus has cursed him.

Can human thinking discover the foundations of human consciousness


(Paperback)

By: Franz Kafka

ISBN: 9780812985146
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2013
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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(Paperback)

By: Franz Kafka

ISBN: 9780805210576
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1995
Publisher: Schocken Books
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The best-known novellas and stories of one of the seminal writers of the twentieth century. Included are "The Judgment", "A Country Doctor", and "A Hunger Artist". New Foreword by Anne Rice.


(Paperback)

By: Frederic Manning

ISBN: 9780141393414
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 3rd April 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Bourne is a private fighting on the front. He is under pressure to accept a commission and become an officer, but he prefers to be among the ranks, drawn into the universal struggle for survival in a world gone mad.


(Paperback)

By: Matthew Lewis

ISBN: 9780099519034
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Noble and devout, Ambrosio is the abbot of a Spanish monastery and spends his days in prayer and preaching. However his monastery is harboring a malevolent force in the form of a young monk called Rosario. Rosario attaches himself to the abbot and then one fateful night reveals that he is in fact a beautiful woman in disguise.


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By: Judith Allnatt

ISBN: 9780007522972
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A poignant story of love and redemption, The Moon Field explores the loss of innocence through a war that destroys everything except the bonds of human hearts.


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By: Jules Verne

ISBN: 9780812966428
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2002
UK Publication Date: 10th December 2002
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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By: Charles Dickens

ISBN: 9781849904278
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2012
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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Tamzin Merchant (Jane Eyre, Miranda, The Tudors) plays Rosa Bud; Julia McKenzie (Cranford, Miss Marple) plays the Reverend's mother, Mrs Crisparkle; Amber Rose Revah (House Of Saddam) plays Helena Landless, Neville's twin sister;


(Paperback, 100th Anniversary edition)

By: Bernard Capes

ISBN: 9780008337278
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2019
UK Publication Date: 13th June 2019
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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The Skeleton Key (1919) was the first detective novel published by Collins, ushering in the Golden Age, the Crime Club, and 100 years of remarkable crime fiction that would follow.


(Paperback)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN: 9780140437485
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1999
UK Publication Date: 6th January 2000
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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New England boy, Arthur Gordon Pym, stows away on a whaling ship with its captain's son, Augustus. The two boys repeatedly find themselves on the brink of death or discovery and witness many terrifying events, including mutiny, cannibalism, and frantic pursuits.


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By: W. Somerset Maugham

ISBN: 9780099286882
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2001
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Kanda, the trio meet good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiance, the cool and beautiful Louise.


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By: H. G. Wells

ISBN: 9780141439990
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2005
UK Publication Date: 26th May 2005
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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A successful author and Liberal MP with a loving and benevolent wife, Richard Remington appears to be a man to envy. But underneath his superficial contentment, he is far from happy with either his marriage or the politics of his party.


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By: Kim Man-Jung

ISBN: 9780143131274
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th July 2019
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"A portion of this book first appeared in different form as "The ghost story" in Azalea: journal of Korean literature & culture, volume 7, 2014"--Title page verso.


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By: Arnold Bennett

ISBN: 9780141442112
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2007
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2007
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters. This work traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women.


(Paperback)

By: Rosie Garland

ISBN: 9780007492787
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A luminous and bewitching debut novel that is perfect for fans of Angela Carter. Set in Victorian London, it follows the fortunes of Eve, the Lion-Faced Girl and Abel, the Flayed Man. A magical realism delight.


(Paperback)

By: Eve Langley

ISBN: 9780732296940
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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