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(Hardback)
By: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9781509826643
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2016
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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Herman Melville's classic American novel.
(Hardback)
By: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9780141199603
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2013
UK Publication Date: 26th September 2013
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Features Captain Ahab who is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. This title is a haunting social commentary populated with some of the most enduring characters in literature.
(Paperback)
By: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9780143105954
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
UK Publication Date: 4th March 2010
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Tells the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more than an encyclopaedia of whaling lore and legend, this book reveals an enquiry into character, faith and the nature of perception.
(Paperback)
By: Herman Melville
ISBN: 9780142437247
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
UK Publication Date: 27th February 2003
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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'Call me Ishmael.' So begins the author's masterpiece, one of the greatest works of imagination in literary history. As Ishmael is drawn into Captain Ahab's obsessive quest to slay the white whale Moby-Dick, he finds himself engaged in a metaphysical struggle between good and evil.
(Hardback)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9781841591490
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 30th March 2007
Publisher: Everyman
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The action is mostly set at Rudge Hall, home to the obese miser Lester Carmody, and at Healthward Ho, a health farm run by 'Chimp Twist, along with his cohorts 'Soapy' and 'Dolly' Molloy.
(Paperback)
By: Wu Chengen
ISBN: 9780241752401
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Wu Chengen
ISBN: 9780141393445
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2021
UK Publication Date: 11th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Sin Miles
ISBN: 9780241619803
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 23rd February 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780720619430
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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A new edition of a forgotten classic by H.G. Wells, introduced by acclaimed biographer of Wells, Michael Sherborne. Mr Blettsworthy is shipwrecked on an island home to cannibals. When he does escape, he returns home only to find the Great War has broken out. It seems he just cannot escape the savagery of the world.
(Paperback)
By: Victor Canning
ISBN: 9781788421621
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 18th April 2019
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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An ebullientMr Finchleyis about to propose to a lady he rescued from mishap when he is sent to Paris by his firm.This gentle comedy was a runaway bestseller on first publication in the 1930s and retains a timeless appeal.
(Paperback)
By: Victor Canning
ISBN: 9781788421638
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2019
UK Publication Date: 16th May 2019
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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Mr Finchleytakes a fancy to a horse-drawn caravan and sets out to explore the countryside.He encounters a band of eccentrics and it gradually emerges that the caravan contains a secret, and Mr Finchley finds himself in real trouble.
(Paperback)
By: Sylvia Townsend Warner
ISBN: 9780241476093
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 25th February 2021
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: A. A. Milne
ISBN: 9781788424516
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th August 2023
Publisher: Duckworth Books
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Gentle chaos sets in when Mr Pim calls in to see George Marden, owner of Marden House, and announces that he's recently seen an ex-convict that sounds awfully like Olivia Marden's first and supposedly deceased husband.
(Paperback)
By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780241341117
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2018
UK Publication Date: 7th June 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780241436271
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 30th July 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9780241468647
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2020
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9781915054944
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2023
UK Publication Date: 10th June 2022
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
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Mrs Dalloway is a novel that features two main characters and two different worldviews. On the one hand, there is Clarissa Dalloway, who being labelled as Mrs, symbolises her marital and social confinement.
(Paperback)
By: Virginia Woolf
ISBN: 9781784870867
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2016
UK Publication Date: 6th October 2016
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening. As she readies her house she is flooded with memories and re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life.
(Paperback)
By: Paul Gallico
ISBN: 9781526646620
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2022
UK Publication Date: 18th August 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From beloved author Paul Gallico, the delightful and uplifting story of Mrs Harris, an ordinary woman whose life is transformed by one beautiful dress--soon to be a motion picture starring Lesley Manville and Isabelle Huppert.
(Paperback)
By: Ryunosuke Akutagawa
ISBN: 9781805330295
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2024
UK Publication Date: 26th October 2023
Publisher: Pushkin Press
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(Paperback, TV tie-in edition)
By: Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780008644086
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
UK Publication Date: 7th December 2023
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Coming this Christmas on BBC, a new two part thriller: Agatha Christies ingenious murder mystery, Murder is Easy.
(Hardback, Special edition)
By: Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780008226664
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2017
UK Publication Date: 19th October 2017
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Agatha Christies most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover with special finishes.
(Paperback)
By: Arthur Conan Doyle
ISBN: 9781784876104
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2020
UK Publication Date: 5th March 2020
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Well, Watson, we seem to have fallen upon evil days
Sherlock Holmes: the quintessential British hero and the world's most popular detective.
(Paperback, Main)
By: Samuel Beckett
ISBN: 9780571244584
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2009
UK Publication Date: 21st May 2009
Publisher: Faber & Faber
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Samuel Beckett's first novel.
