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By: Wilkie Collins

ISBN: 9781847497673
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 26th July 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Part of Alma Classics new series: 101 Pages, The Frozen Deep is an action-packed tale of vengeance and sacrifice based on an actual doomed mission to the Arctic captained by Sir John Franklin.


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By: Katherine Mansfield

ISBN: 9781847497291
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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This edition contains all of Mansfi eld's published short stories from different collections, including `The Garden Party' and `In a German Pension'.


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By: Marguerite Duras

ISBN: 9780714548500
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2019
UK Publication Date: 25th October 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Understated and impressionistic, and consisting almost entirely of dialogue, The Garden Square is one of Marguerite Durass finest novels, which she also adapted to the stage.


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By: Aldous Huxley

ISBN: 9781784870362
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time spent as a lab assistant to the great physicist Henry Maartens; about Maartens' beautiful wife, Katy, and about a love affair which shook Rivers to the core and caused him to question everything he once revered.


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By: Vladimir Nabokov

ISBN: 9780141185873
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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"The Gift" is the phantasmal autobiography of Fyodor Godunov- Cherdynstev, a writer living in the closed world of Russian emigre intellectuals in Berlin shortly after World War I.


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By: P.G. Wodehouse

ISBN: 9780099514190
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2009
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2008
Publisher: Cornerstone
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But she's an heiress, and that's a problem too - because even if he can extricate himself from his grasping fiance Jerry can't be a gold-digger.

Enter The Girl in Blue - a Gainsborough miniature which someone has stolen from Uncle Willoughby.


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By: Honor de Balzac

ISBN: 9781681379067
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: New York Review Books
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"Henri de Marsay believes neither in man nor woman, God nor devil. He believes in Paris, a city that readily accommodates his pursuit of sensual pleasure. It is in the Tuileries, just outside the Cafe des Feuillants, that Henri de Marsay first catches sight of the girl with the golden eyes and can almost believe in love"--


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By: Patricia Highsmith

ISBN: 9780349004952
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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In 1961, Patricia Highsmith received a fan letter from a prison inmate. A correspondence ensued and Highsmith became fascinated with the psychological traumas that incarceration can inflict.


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By: Anatole France

ISBN: 9781847493194
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 29th August 2013
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Benefiting from Anatole France's meticulous historical research, this fascinating and timeless novel sheds light on a complex world of rival factions and institutions of state terror and vividly portrays the lives and psyches of ordinary people who are complicit in acts of public barbarity.


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By: Henry James

ISBN: 9781857151176
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1992
UK Publication Date: 26th November 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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James' novel featuring a complex and bizarre battle between two wives - the shy Maggie, who marries an Italian prince, and the prince's former mistress, who marries Maggie's widowed father. Determined to take back her lover, the brilliant Charlotte is nevertheless defeated by her rival.


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By: Alistair MacLean

ISBN: 9780008337469
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2021
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A tense and nerve-shattering classic from the highly acclaimed masster of action and suspense.


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By: E.T.A. Hoffmann

ISBN: 9781953861702
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2023
UK Publication Date: 24th October 2023
Publisher: Archipelago Books
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By: M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin

ISBN: 9781786690050
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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A powerful novel from the great Russian satirist: the Golovlev family are ruled by matriarch Arina Petrovna, but her son, Porfiry, plots her downfall.


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By: Ford Madox Ford

ISBN: 9780099540670
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2013
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.

When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to be the perfect couple.


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By: Ford Madox Ford

ISBN: 9781847494955
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2015
UK Publication Date: 15th September 2015
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Thoroughly edited and extensively annotated, this edition of The Good Soldier tells the stories of two outwardly happy couples who meet at a health spa in Germany just before the start of the First World War.


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By: Patrick Hamilton

ISBN: 9780349141497
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 6th July 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Abacus is reissuing all of Patrick Hamilton's novels for a new audience. In The Gorse Trilogy, Patrick Hamilton creates one of fiction's most captivating anti-heroes.


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By: Harry Crews

ISBN: 9780143135098
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2022
UK Publication Date: 24th November 2022
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Arnold Bennett

ISBN: 9781784872373
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
UK Publication Date: 2nd February 2017
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in London. But when hotel staff begin to vanish and a German prince goes missing, Nella discovers that murder, blackmail and kidnapping are also on the menu.


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By: John Steinbeck

ISBN: 9780241980347
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
UK Publication Date: 26th April 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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By: Olivia Manning

ISBN: 9781786091130
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th July 2020
Publisher: Cornerstone
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WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL CUSK

'A fantastically tart and readable account of life in eastern Europe at the start of the war' Sarah Waters

'Wonderfully entertaining' Observer


Autumn, 1939.


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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9780593201060
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers
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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9780099577720
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2013
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY GEOFF DYER

The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsbys party. Just where is Gatsby from and what is the obsession that drives him

This edition of The Great Gatsby is the result of a unique collaboration between Tiffany & Co.


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By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9781409147442
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
UK Publication Date: 9th May 2013
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
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Jay Gatsby is a self-made man, famed for his decadent champagne-drenched parties. Despite being surrounded by Long Island's bright and beautiful, Gatsby longs only for Daisy Buchanan. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion. THE GREAT GATSBY is an elegiac and exquisite portrait of the American Dream.


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By: Charlotte Bront

ISBN: 9781847497611
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2019
UK Publication Date: 22nd November 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Full of tragedy and passion, love and rivalry, the five sweeping tales contained in this volume display the precocious talent, lively imagination and flair for storytelling of the young Charlotte Bront.

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