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By: Mikls Bnffy

ISBN: 9781841593531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2013
Publisher: Everyman
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Shooting parties in great country houses, turbulent scenes in parliament and the luxury life in Budapest provide the backdrop for this gripping, prescient novel, forming a chilling indictment of upper-class frivolity and political folly, in which good manners cloak indifference and brutality.


(Hardback)

By: Mikls Bnffy

ISBN: 9781841593548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2013
UK Publication Date: 31st May 2013
Publisher: Everyman
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The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of Hungarian Transylvania, later to fall into the hands of first the Nazis and then the Communists, his love for Adrienne, married to an unpleasant and dangerous lunatic, and a Proustian society helplessly bent on its own destruction.


(Paperback)

By: Georges Perec

ISBN: 9780099541660
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2011
UK Publication Date: 3rd March 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'.


(Paperback)

By: Pamela Hansford Johnson

ISBN: 9781473679856
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2018
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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Rediscover a classic gem with Pamela Hansford Johnson's THIS BED THY CENTRE, the explosive, defining novel about sex in 1930s London.


(Hardback)

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9780141194097
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2011
UK Publication Date: 4th November 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Presents the story of a young man's painful sexual and intellectual awakening that echoes Fitzgerald's own career.


(Paperback)

By: F. Scott Fitzgerald

ISBN: 9781847492227
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2012
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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A critical account of its own era, introducing many themes which would be developed in later works, Fitzgerald's first novel was an instant critical and commercial success, propelling him into the limelight as a literary celebrity.


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By: Patricia Highsmith

ISBN: 9780349004860
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2014
UK Publication Date: 6th November 2014
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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Those Who Walk Away is a brilliant psychological thriller - a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in the labyrinthine streets of Venice.


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By: Giacomo Leopardi

ISBN: 9781847497376
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2018
UK Publication Date: 27th September 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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Presented here in a new translation by prize-winning translator J.G. Nichols, Thoughts offers an insight into the worldview of Italy's last great polymath.


(Hardback)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

ISBN: 9781529024012
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2020
UK Publication Date: 9th July 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Three Men in a Boat remains one of the best-loved and most entertaining comic novels ever penned.


(Paperback)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

ISBN: 9780099511700
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 7th April 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

ISBN: 9781847496539
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 29th March 2018
Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
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New edition to include extra material for students and notes.


(Paperback)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

ISBN: 9780007449439
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2012
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2012
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.


(Paperback)

By: Jerome K. Jerome

ISBN: 9780140437508
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2000
UK Publication Date: 25th November 1999
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J and his friends George and Harris decide that a jaunt up the Thames would suit them to a 'T'. But when they set off, they can hardly predict the troubles that lie ahead with tow-ropes, unreliable weather-forecasts and tins of pineapple chunks.


(Paperback)

By: Jerome K Jerome

ISBN: 9780241956823
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Three men and a dog decide to head for a restful vacation on the Thames. Anticipating peace and leisure, they encounter, in fact, the joys of roughing it, of getting their boat stuck in locks, of being towed by amateurs, of having to eat their own cooking and, of course, of coping with the glorious English weather.


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By: Lewis Carroll

ISBN: 9780008195601
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.


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By: Lewis Carroll

ISBN: 9780007350933
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
UK Publication Date: 1st April 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.


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By: Francois Mauriac

ISBN: 9780141394053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2013
UK Publication Date: 30th May 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Therese Desqueyroux walks free from court, acquitted of trying to poison her husband. As she travels home to the gloomy forests of Argelouse, Therese looks back over the marriage that brought her nothing but stifling darkness, and wonders, has she really escaped punishment or is it only just about to begin


(Paperback)

By: Emile Zola

ISBN: 9780099573531
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd October 2014
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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When Therese Raquin is forced to marry the sickly Camille, she sees a bare life stretching out before her, leading every evening to the same cold bed and every morning to the same empty day. Escape comes in the form of her husband's friend, Laurent, and Therese throws herself headlong into an affair.


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By: Stephen Baxter

ISBN: 9780008134464
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 22nd October 2015
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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2010. More than a century of ecological damage, industrial and technological expansion, and unchecked population growth has left the Earth on the brink of devastation.


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By: Aldous Huxley

ISBN: 9781784870348
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2015
UK Publication Date: 3rd September 2015
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, is on bad terms with his socialist father who disapproves of his hedonistic lifestyle. His education there, thanks to the contradictory influences of his scurrilous Uncle Eustace and a saintly bookseller, is both sacred and profane.


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By: Leila Meacham

ISBN: 9781455533848
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2017
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Now in paperback: From the bestselling author of Roses, a sweeping drama of long-hidden secrets, enduring bonds, and unlikely redemption, set in turn-of-the-century Texas.


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By: Maeve Gilmore

ISBN: 9780099552765
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2011
UK Publication Date: 23rd June 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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When Peake died in 1968, he left behind the start of a fourth Gormenghast book, Titus Awakes. His wife, the writer and artist Maeve Gilmore, completed the manuscript.The book continues the story of the Titus, the 77th Earl of Groan, as he wanders in the modern world and finds his final resting place in Sark.


(Paperback)

By: Jack Higgins

ISBN: 9780007349333
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2013
UK Publication Date: 31st January 2013
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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July 1940. England prepares for invasion, all eyes focused on its borders.

But such focus inevitably leaves gaps elsewhere, and Hitler sees an opportunity to carry out an audacious plot that would change the course of the war


(Paperback)

By: Virginia Woolf

ISBN: 9780593468869
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 21st December 2022
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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