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By: Shiva Naipaul

ISBN: 9780141197227
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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The crowded, ramshackle community of the Settlement in Trinidad is at the mercy of a tyrant. Egbert Ramsaran, the proud owner of the Ramsaran Transport Company, who has become the richest man in town through sheer strength of will, is a capricious, eccentric despot who loves nobody and whom nobody can afford to ignore.


(Paperback)

By: P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN: 9780099513865
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
UK Publication Date: 1st May 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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A Golf collection

The Oldest Member knows everything that has ever happened on the golf course - and a great deal more besides.

Take the story of Cuthbert, for instance.


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By: Louis J. Budd

ISBN: 9781598535280
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: The Library of America
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The most comprehensive edition ever published of Mark Twain's short writings


(Hardback)

By: Edgar Allan Poe

ISBN: 9780679600077
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1992
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Gathers stories, essays, and poems, including "The Gold-Bug," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," "The Cask of Amontillado," "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Raven," "Lenore," and "Annabel Lee".


(Hardback)

By: Kahlil Gibran

ISBN: 9781841593104
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2007
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2007
Publisher: Everyman
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Includes "The Madman", "The Forerunner", "The Prophet", "Sand and Foam", "Jesus the Son of Man", "Earth Gods", "The Wanderer", "The Garden of the Prophet", "Prose Poems", "Spirits Rebellious", "Nymphs of the Valley" and "A Tear and a Smile".


(Paperback)

By: Muriel Spark

ISBN: 9781844085538
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2009
UK Publication Date: 6th August 2009
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Muriel Spark's stunning debut novel


(Paperback)

By: Mary McCarthy

ISBN: 9781844085941
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd November 2011
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Published in 1942, Mary McCarthy's first novel creates a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle.


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By: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN: 9781847679192
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2010
UK Publication Date: 5th August 2010
Publisher: Canongate Books
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's brilliant, swashbuckling classic, now reissued


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By: Anthony Burgess

ISBN: 9780099541431
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2012
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Whether he is pursuing revenge and inspiration in Morocco, expounding on his notorious sex film on a TV chat show, or writing a hit musical based on the life and work of Shakespeare, Enderby emerges triumphant.


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By: G K Chesterton

ISBN: 9781849906463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2013
UK Publication Date: 10th January 2013
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
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The character of Father Brown, brought to life by Mark Williams, is based on a real parish priest and the idea that priests, through hearing Confession, know the worst of human nature more than anyone, including the police.


(Hardback)

By: Nella Larsen

ISBN: 9781841594118
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2023
Publisher: Everyman
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By: Nancy Mitford

ISBN: 9780241239476
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2016
UK Publication Date: 26th November 2015
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Provides a glimpse of the bright young things of the thirties, forties, fifties and sixties in the city and in the shires; firmly ensconced at home or making a go of it abroad; and what the upper classes really got up to in peace and in war.


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By: George Orwell

ISBN: 9780141190396
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2009
UK Publication Date: 4th June 2009
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, this title portrays a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written.


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By: Jane Austen

ISBN: 9780143039501
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Includes seven novels such as: "Sense and Sensibility", "Pride and Prejudice", "Mansfield Park", "Emma", "Northanger Abbey", "Persuasion", and "Lady Susan".


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By: Arthur Conan Doyle

ISBN: 9780099529934
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 7th May 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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His efforts to uncover the truth take him all over the world and into conflict with all manner of devious criminals and dangerous villains, but thankfully his legendary powers of deduction, and his faithful companion Dr Watson, are more than up to the challenge.


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By: Anton Chekov

ISBN: 9781857152777
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2004
UK Publication Date: 17th June 2004
Publisher: Everyman
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In The Story of an Unknown Man, a political radical plans to spy on an important official by serving as valet to his son, however, as he gradually becomes involved as a silent witness in the intimate life of his young employer, he finds that his own terminal illness has changed his long-held priorities in startling ways.


(Hardback)

By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9781841593463
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2012
Publisher: Everyman
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Mark Twains famous novels, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (available in Everyman) have long been hailed as major masterpieces, but it is less well known that the father of American literature also made his mark as a master of the short story.


(Paperback)

By: Mark Twain

ISBN: 9780553211955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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Gathers all sixty of Twains stories, including tall tales, mysteries, sketches, and tales of travel.


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By: Herman Melville

ISBN: 9780140445473
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2005
UK Publication Date: 28th February 1991
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Written by the author of "Billy Budd, Sailor" and "Moby-Dick", this novel is unfinished, although published in his lifetime. Set on April Fool's Day aboard a Mississippi steamer, the novel is a gloomy satire on American life and the state of distrust that exists between human beings.


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By: Robert Musil

ISBN: 9781847493545
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2014
UK Publication Date: 20th November 2013
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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A new translation of Robert Musil's first novel, a fresco of psychoanalysis, philosophy, eroticism, snobbery, sado-masochism and schoolboy humour, a hothouse of alternately repressed and unchained desires that prefigure the carnage of both World Wars.


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By: Rudolph Fisher

ISBN: 9780008216474
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 7th January 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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One of Buzzfeeds Most Anticipated Books of 2021.
This trailblazing work of fiction is notable for its depiction of Harlems African American society and culture in the 1930s Bookpage


(Paperback)

By: Margaret Kennedy

ISBN: 9780099589747
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2014
UK Publication Date: 7th August 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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The family and their home life may be chaotic, but visitors fall into an enchantment, and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away.

When Sanger dies, his Circus must break up and each find a more conventional way of life.


(Paperback)

By: Joseph Roth

ISBN: 9781782275978
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th April 2020
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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New translations of the greatest short stories by Joseph Roth, collected in a beautiful edition.


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By: Leo Tolstoy

ISBN: 9781857151701
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 1994
UK Publication Date: 7th April 1994
Publisher: Everyman
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A brilliant short novel based on Tolstoy's early life as a soldier in the Caucusus, THE COSSACKS has all the energy and poetry of youth while at the same time foreshadowing the great themes of Tolstoy's later years.

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