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First published in 1885, this novel is set in a shabby provincial Spanish town and explores an intelligent and sensitive woman's unsuccessful quest for fulfilment through marriage, adultery and religion.

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Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb, a dangerous mission far away from the girl he loves. While Jerry risks his life, his sweetheart Mona sets about clearing her lover's name...but will she be too late

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A Kelsey and Lambert novel.

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At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. All that they do outside is effectively controlled by the rules of the Game: unfortunately the rules of the Game prescribe that the two children must die...

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A new star-studded adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic Little Dorrit for BBC1 starts this November.

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Ben the tramp, self-confessed coward and ex-sailor, is back in the Merchant Service and shipwrecked in the Pacific.

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A rare, original and stunning novel about a remarkable girl who learns the hard way that the truth doesn't always set you free - with echoes of Jasper Jones, Seven Little Australians and Cloudstreet.

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THE BOOK: A selection of work taken from his highly acclaimed collection Stories of a Lifetime by one of the greatest writers of the 20th Century.

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"First published...in two volumes by Roberts Brothers 1868 and 1869"--Title page verso.

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More than a love story, this is a bold, confronting book about friendship, love, sex and identity at the heart of Australia, where black and white, bush and city collide.

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One of his most admired works, LOVING describes life above and below stairs in an Irish country house during the Second World War. In the absence of their employers the Tennants, the servants enact their own battles and conflict amid rumours about the war in Europe;

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A young girl traces her mothers steps all the way from London to Japan to search for the father she never knew.

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A tale of a young girl in the slums, along with selected other writings and an introduction by Luc Sante.

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The young Chevalier des Grieux recounts the tragic story of his passion for Manon and betrayal at her hands. Capricious, mercenary, alert to virtue but alive to pleasure, Manon is one of literature's "femmes fatales".

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Jane Austen's novel with an introduction by Carol Shields, plus commentaries, notes and a reading group guide.

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The arrival of the snobbish Mrs Emmeline Lucas (known as Lucia to her friends) in the small seaside town of Tilling causes waves as she threatens the queen bee of Tillings social circle, Miss Elizabeth Mapp.

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After Philip Stenning is involved in a near-fatal plane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued him. However, his mysterious saviour is an escaped convict, and his determination to help him leads Stenning into a tense and dramatic adventure of intrigue, drug-running and murder.

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Must-read modern literature on Dickenss classic A Christmas Carol that explores of the relationship between Ebenezer Scrooge and Jacob Marley.

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The spirit and atmosphere of Herman Melville's masterpiece - romantic, ambiguous, characterful and rich with allegory is captured onstage.

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A Kesley and Lambert novel. Cannonbridges wealthiest and poorest are drawn into the complex web of DCI Kelsey and Sergeant Lamberts investigations.

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In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take a stand against the might of the German army after the fall of France in World War II.

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Ben the tramp is back at sea, a stowaway bound for Spain in the company of a wanted man the Hammersmith murderer.

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Amy, a neglected motherless child in 1920s London meets Robert, a wealthy American boy.