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(Hardback)
By: Becky Brown
ISBN: 9781529020991
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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This delightful anthology of Cat Stories is the perfect gift for cat lovers everywhere.
(Hardback)
By: Becky Brown
ISBN: 9781035014903
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 18th January 2024
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A wide-ranging collection of engaging stories about many different kinds of love.
(Hardback)
By: Editors of Canterbury Classics
ISBN: 9781684125548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2018
Publisher: Canterbury Classics
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A fine collection of classic novels, short stories, poems, and essays from distinguished women writers.
(Paperback)
By: Stella Gibbons
ISBN: 9780241951514
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm.
(Paperback)
By: Stella Gibbons
ISBN: 9780141045481
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Bertolt Brecht
ISBN: 9781472577511
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Hans Keilson
ISBN: 9781782279761
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2024
UK Publication Date: 23rd May 2024
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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(Paperback)
By: Viar Hreinsson
ISBN: 9780140447743
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 7th March 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Icelandic literary culture was one of the richest and most important in the medieval world. This title brings together the finest comic stories from medieval Iceland. It examines how the stories satirised old-style sagas while exploiting their classic themes of quests and revenge.
(Paperback)
By: D.J. Taylor
ISBN: 9781472133090
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2022
UK Publication Date: 9th June 2022
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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A new and definitive edition of Coming up for Air, introduced and annotated by Orwell's prize-winning biographer. With additional content from Orwell himself.
(Paperback)
By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9781847499004
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
UK Publication Date: 22nd June 2023
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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By turns comic and melancholy, Orwells fourth novel published in 1939 to critical and commercial acclaim by Victor Gollancz is Wellsian in its exploration of the frustrations and helplessness of a lower-middle-class protagonist faced with the indifference of a rapidly changing world, and a vital record of a society on the verge of war.
(Hardback, Revised, Bonded Leather)
By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781435167902
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 15th March 2018
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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(Paperback)
By: Thomas De Quincey
ISBN: 9781847497635
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 22nd November 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Published anonymously in The London Magazine, the Confessions were an immediate success, and soon speculation was rife as to the identity of the mysterious Opium-Eater. The work, which introduced the literary world to De Quincey's unique "impassioned prose", is now widely deemed to be De Quincey's masterpiece.
(Paperback)
By: Stefan Zweig
ISBN: 9781782274506
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2018
UK Publication Date: 2nd November 2017
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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A new pocket edition of this tale of intense friendship and suppressed passion from the master of the novella
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By: Conn Iggulden
ISBN: 9780007271153
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2012
UK Publication Date: 19th July 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Number one bestselling author Conn Iggulden takes on the story of the mighty Kublai Khan. An epic tale of a great and heroic mind; his action-packed rule; and how in conquering one-fifth of the worlds inhabited land, he changed the course of history forever.
(Hardback)
By: Italo Calvino
ISBN: 9780241573709
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 25th August 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Alexander Lernet-Holenia
ISBN: 9780241649541
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
UK Publication Date: 28th March 2024
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Honor de Balzac
ISBN: 9780140441604
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 1965
UK Publication Date: 2nd December 2004
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Poor, plain spinster Bette is compelled to survive on the condescending patronage of her socially superior relatives in Paris: her beautiful, saintly cousin Adeline, the philandering Baron Hulot and their daughter Hortense.
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By: Elizabeth Gaskell
ISBN: 9780141442549
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2008
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister Miss Matty.
(Hardback)
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: 9780241347683
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
UK Publication Date: 5th July 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, commits a random murder, imagining himself to be a great man far above moral law. But as he embarks on a cat-and-mouse game with police, his conscience begins to torment him and he seeks sympathy and redemption from Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute.
(Hardback)
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9781509827749
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th January 2017
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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A pocket hardback of Dostoevsky's literary masterpiece.
(Paperback)
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: 9780140449136
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law.
(Hardback)
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: 9780785841739
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st November 2022
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
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An unabridged, elegantly designed hardcover edition for the timeless Russian classic.
(Paperback)
By: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
ISBN: 9780141192802
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2014
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Will I really slip in sticky, warm blood, force the lock, steal, tremble, hide, all soaked in blood... axe in hand... Lord, will I really This is the translation of author's 'psychological record of a crime' which gives his dark masterpiece of murder and pursuit a renewed vitality, expressing its jagged and fevered atmosphere.
(Paperback)
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
ISBN: 9781784871970
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th January 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Consumed by the idea of his own special destiny, immured in poverty and deprivation, Rashkolnikov is drawn to commit a terrible crime. In the aftermath, Rashkolnikov is dogged by madness, guilt and a calculating detective. The only hope for redemption, if Rashkolnikov can but recognise it, lies in the virtuous and faithful Sonya.
