Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
Penguin Random House Children's UK James and the Giant Peach
Book SynopsisWe are now about to visit the most marvellous places and see the most wonderful things!'This beautiful edition of James and the Giant Peach, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new.So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers . . .The Roald Dahl Classic Collection reinstates the versions of Dahl's books that were published before the 2022 Puffin editions, aimed at newly independent young readers.
£7.99
Pan Macmillan Fairies Elves and Sprites
Book SynopsisAn enchanting collection of stories about magical folk drawn from all around the world.
£10.44
Pan Macmillan Mansfield Park
Book SynopsisJane Austen was born in 1775 in rural Hampshire, the daughter of an affluent village rector who encouraged her in her artistic pursuits. In novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma she developed her subtle analysis of contemporary life through depictions of the middle-classes in small towns. Her sharp wit and incisive portraits of ordinary people have given her novels enduring popularity. She died in 1817.
£11.69
Arcturus Publishing Grimms Fairy Tales
£21.24
Random House Orlando
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£17.09
Pushkin Press Death in Venice
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Everyman Herself Surprised To Be a Pilgrim The Horses Mouth
Book SynopsisFrom her prison cell, the irrepressible, magnetic Sara Monday looks back on the past half-century of her life in Herself Surprised. Born into a poor family, her employment while still a young girl as a cook in a middle-class household set her on a colourful and picaresque path. In To Be a Pilgrim, Tom Wilcher, a wealthy and disgraced lawyer who has been both Sara's employer and her lover, has retreated to his estate near the end of his life to wrestle with his tormented conscience. And the centre of The Horse's Mouth, a charming, talented,impoverished artist named Gulley Jimson-also a lover of Sara Monday-is a restless, rebellious, and self-serving scoundrel whose antics verge on the appalling and farcical.Read together, these three vigorous and unforgettable narrative voices offer a sweeping vision of the first half of the twentieth century that is lyrical, profane, tragic, and comic all at once.Published in 1941, 1942, and 1944, the novels in Cary's trilogy were designed to reveal three complex characters, not only as they see themselves, but as they are seen by one another, resulting in a work of three-dimensional depth and force.'Family life just goes on. Toughest thing in the world. But of course it is also the microcosm of a world. You get everything there-birth, life, death, love and jealousy, conflict of wills, of authority and freedom, the new and the old. And I always choose the biggest stage possible for my theme...' Joyce Cary
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Penguin Books Ltd And Quiet Flows the Don
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe work of Mikhail Sholokhov represents a new phase in literature and can only be compared with Tolstoy's War and Peace -- Maxim GorkyOne of the greatest Russian novels of the 20th century... a deeply humane, epic, utterly compelling portrait of Russia's cataclysmic entrance into the modern age -- Christopher Hart * Sunday Times *The finest realist novel about the Revolution * New York Times *A work of undoubted literary distinction * Guardian *
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Union Square & Co. Grimms Complete Fairy Tales Barnes Noble
Book SynopsisGrimm's Complete Fairy Tales collects more than two hundred tales set down by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early decades of the nineteenth century, among them some of the best-loved and most famous fairy tales in all literature. This edition features ten rarely seen Children's Legends and the full-colour artwork of Arthur Rackham.
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Oxford University Press Framley Parsonage
Book SynopsisThe Revd Mark Robarts puts his future and his family in peril when he guarantees the debts of an unscrupulous MP. The romantic hopes of Mark's sister Lucy are also dependent on the goodwill of Mark's offended patroness, mother of Lucy's suitor. Trollope's fourth Barchester novel, Framley Parsonage remains one of his most popular stories.Trade ReviewConvincingly argues that its narrative of "precarious livings and tenancy" displaces to Barsetshire topical concerns about land ownership and occupation in Ireland. * Matthew Ingleby, The Times Literary Supplement *
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Penguin Books Ltd Wives and Daughters
Book SynopsisThe Penguin English Library Edition of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth GaskellEh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways ...Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly''s life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. Soon the girls become close, and Molly finds herself cajoled into becoming a go-between in Cynthia''s love affairs. But in doing so, Molly risks ruining her reputation in the gossiping village of Hollingford - and jeopardizing everything with the man she is secretly in love with.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Orion Publishing Co The King of Elflands Daughter
Book Synopsis''He contrasted the mortal world, in wonder, with the deep calm of his home, where the moment moved more slowly than the shadows of the houses here, and did not pass until all the content with which a moment is stored had been drawn from it by every creature in Elfland...''The poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland''s Daughter has made it one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time, a masterpiece that influenced some of the greatest contemporary fantasists. The heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an elf princess is a masterful tapestry of the fairy tale following the happily ever after.Trade ReviewA fine, strange, almost forgotten novel ... the writing is beautiful ... This is the real thing. It's a rich red wine, which may come as a shock if all one has had so far has been cola. So trust the book. Trust the poetry and the strangeness, and the magic of the ink, and drink it slowly -- Neil GaimanDunsany's masterpiece ... that may well be the same as saying it could be the very best fairy story ever written -- Graham WilsonIt's not simply the beauty of the language, the astute eye for character, the hint of humor, or even the spell of legendry and wonder, but Dunsany's unique combination of all of the above. Even read today, with all the fantasy novels I've read, his work remains fresh and exuberant * Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction *A delicate ear for speech rhythms and a brilliantly exact imagination -- Ursula K Le GuinOne of the greatest writers of the twentieth century -- Arthur C ClarkeThe poetic style and sweeping grandeur of The King of Elfland's Daughter has made it one of the most beloved fantasy novels of our time, a masterpiece that influenced some of the greatest contemporary fantasists. The heartbreaking story of a marriage between a mortal man and an elf princess is a masterful tapestry of the fairy tale following the "happily ever after" * GOODREADS *No amount of mere description can convey more than a fraction of Lord Dunsany's pervasive charm -- H.P. LovecraftA fantasy novel in a class with the Tolkien books -- L. Sprague de Camp
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Wordsworth Editions Ltd The Complete Illustrated Sherlock Holmes
Book SynopsisThe perfect gift for any Sherlock Holmes fan. Each boxset contains six books, together creating a complete collection of the famous detective's many cases and adventures.
£30.37
Pan Macmillan Quartet in Autumn
Book Synopsis‘Spectacular’ – The Sunday Times‘Quartet in Autumn is immeasurably her finest work of fiction’ – Evening Standard‘Barbara Pym has a sharp eye for the exact nuances of social behaviour’ – The TimesDeliciously, blackly funny and full of obstinate optimism, Quartet in Autumn is a classic. Part of the Picador Collection, it shows Barbara Pym’s sensitive artistry at its most sparkling. Its world is both extraordinary and familiar, revealing the eccentricities of everyday life. In 1970s London, Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia work in the same office and suffer the same problem – loneliness.Lovingly and with delightful humour, Barbara Pym conducts us through their day-to-day existence: their preoccupations, their irritations, their judgements, and – perhaps most keenly felt – their worries about having somehow missed
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Oxford University Press The Portrait of a Lady
Book SynopsisConsidered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, The Portrait of a Lady is both a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in machinations she only comes to understand too late. This new edition usefully tracks the major textual changes James made for his New York Edition.
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Vintage Publishing Anna Karenina
Book SynopsisSet against the backdrop of Russian high society, this novel charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army officer who pursues Anna after becoming infatuated with her at a ball.Trade ReviewOne of the greatest love stories in world literature -- Vladimir NabokovTolstoy's historical and human sweep is breathtaking. His vision, humanity and his knowledge that love and pain are at the heart of life is the most important of all the profound truths revealed in this great novel -- Jonathan DimblebyIn Anna Karenina, Tolstoy got totally inside the mind of a woman who is prepared to lose everything for the sake of man and who is so much in love that she commits suicide. I don't like her as a woman, but I think it is a brilliant portrait, unequalled in literature -- Amanda Craig * Independent *I've read and re-read this novel and every time I find another layer in the story -- Philippa GregoryI first read Anna Karenina 20 years ago when travelling across the Peruvian desert on a long bus journey, and it has stayed with me ever since -- Hugh Thomson * Independent *
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Penguin Books Ltd A Handful of Dust
Book Synopsis''It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.''After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Brilliantly combining tragedy, comedy and savage irony, A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the ''crazy and sterile generation'' between the wars. The Penguin English Library - collectable general readers'' editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century to the end of the Second World War.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Song of the Lark
Book SynopsisThe second novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is a passionate portrait of the artist as a young womanThea Kronberg, a young girl from a small town in Colorado has a great gift - her beautiful singing voice. Her talent takes her to the great opera houses of Europe, and through ambition and hard work, she forges a life as an artist. But if she can never go home again, nor can she leave behind her past. At last, in a desert canyon in Arizona, Thea has a revelation that will allow her to attain a new state of spirituality and become a truly great artist.''Willa Cather makes a world which is burningly alive, sometimes lovely, often tragic'' Helen Dunmore''The Song of the Lark illuminates all her work'' A. S. Byatt''Lingers long in the memory'' Joyce Carol Oates
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Penguin Books Ltd Where Reasons End
Book Synopsis''Profoundly moving. An astonishing book, a true work of art'' Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers From the critically acclaimed author of The Vagrants, a devastating and utterly original novel on grief and motherhood''Days: the easiest possession. The days he had refused would come, one at a time. They would wait, every daybreak, with their boundless patience and indifference, seeing if they could turn me into an ally or an enemy to myself.''A woman''s teenage son takes his own life. It is incomprehensible. The woman is a writer, and so she attempts to comprehend her grief in the space she knows best: on the page, as an imagined conversation with the child she has lost. He is as sharp and funny and serious in death as he was in life itself, and he will speak back to her, unable to offer explanation or solace, but not yet, not quite, gone.Where Reasons End is an extraordinary portrait of parTrade Reviewan incredible piece of work * Chris Power, Open Book *a disquieting, delicate, affecting book * Irish Times *One of the most moving books I've ever read. * Leslie Jamison *Profoundly moving. An astonishing book, a true work of art. * Max Porter, author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers *The writing is raw and deeply affecting. * The Times *Heart-rending * The Sunday Times *Li writes with a shimmering and deeply felt precision. * Guardian *Unsentimental, brave and beautiful. An absolutely monumental book. * Daily Mail *The most intelligent, insightful, heart-wrenching book of our time. -- Andrew Sean GreerA masterpiece. This book haunts me more than any other novel I've read in recent years. -- Garth GreenwellA highly unusual novel in which a writer confronts one of life's deepest sorrows in losing her child. . . Funny, touching and profoundly moving -- Chigozie Obioma
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HarperCollins Publishers 1356
Book SynopsisGo with God and Fight Like the Devil. The remarkable new novel by Britain's master storyteller, which culminates at the Battle of Poitiers.1356: France stands alert to danger. The English army, victorious at the battle of Crécy and led by the Black Prince, is invading and the French are hunting them down. The bloodiest battles of the Hundred Years War are yet to be fought.Thomas of Hookton, an English archer, becomes trapped with his outnumbered army. And here, near the town of Poitiers, an extraordinary confrontation will ignite one of the greatest battles of all time.Trade Review‘A reminder of just how good a writer he is’ SUNDAY TIMES Praise for Bernard Cornwell: ‘The best battle scenes of any writer I’ve ever read, past or present. Cornwell really makes history come alive’ George R.R. Martin ‘He’s called a master storyteller. Really he’s cleverer than that’ TELEGRAPH Nobody in the world does this better than Cornwell’ Lee Child This is a magnificent and gory work' Daily Mail 'The historical blockbuster of the year' EVENING STANDARD ‘A runaway success’ OBSERVER ‘The characterisation, as ever, is excellent…And one can only admire the little touches that bring the period to life. He can also claim to be a true poet of both the horror and the glory of war’ SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is typical Cornwell, meticulously researched, massive in scope, brilliant in execution’ NEWS OF THE WORLD
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Vintage Publishing The Sound of Waves
Book SynopsisYukio Mishima was born into a samurai family and imbued with the code of complete control over mind and body, and loyalty to the Emperor - the same code that produced the austerity and self-sacrifice of Zen. He wrote countless stories and thirty-three plays, in some of which he performed. Several films have been made from his novels, including The Sound of Waves, Enjo which was based on The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea. Among his other works are the novels Confessions of a Mask and Thirst for Love and the short story collections Death in Midsummer and Acts of Worship. The Sea of Fertility tetralogy, however, is his masterpiece. After Mishima conceived the idea of The Sea of Fertility in 1964, he frequently said he would die when it was completed. On 25 November 1970, the day he completed The Decay of the Angel, the last novel of the cycle, Mishima committed seppuku (ritual suicide) at the age of forty-five.Trade ReviewA work of art...altogether a joyous and lovely thing * New York Times *Of such classic design its action might take place at any point across a thousand years * San Francisco Chronicle *A pastoral with ancient Greek overtones * Boston Globe *A sunny masterpiece * Los Angeles Times *
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Vintage Publishing A Man in Love
Book SynopsisKarl Ove Knausgaard's My Struggle cycle has been heralded as a masterpiece all over the world. From A Death in the Family to The End, the novels move through childhood into adulthood and, together, form an enthralling portrait of human life. Knausgaard has been awarded the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature, the Brage Prize and the Jerusalem Prize. His work, which also includes the Seasons Quartet and the Morning Star series (The Morning Star, The Wolves of Eternity and The Third Realm) is published in thirty-five languages.Trade ReviewA stunningly eloquent set of reflections on masculinity, domesticity and the artist's itch to escape -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent *Compelling, rewarding, maddening...breathtaking * Observer *My favourite book of the year… He has the ability to make the small details of his life fascinating -- William Leith * Spectator *Shocking and compulsive * Dazed & Confused *This is a reading experience like no other. Fearless in its truth-telling and as real as life, it is an epic study of what it feels like to be alive -- Carys Davies * Metro *
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Penguin Books Ltd The Heart of MidLothian
Book SynopsisJeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen. Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case, Jeanie is desperate for a reprieve. Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, The Heart of Mid-Lothian dramatizes different kinds of justice - that meted out by the Edinburgh mob in the lynching of Captain Porteous, and that encountered by a terrified young girl suspected of killing her baby. Based on an anonymous letter Scot received in 1817, this is the seventh and finest of Scott''s ''Waverley'' novels. It was an international bestseller and inspired succeeding novelists from Balzac to George Eliot.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Forsyte Saga
Book SynopsisIn this second part of John Galworthy''s trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide the Forsyte clan with society scandals and conflicting passions.
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Penguin Books Ltd The War of the Worlds
Book SynopsisThe Penguin English Library Edition of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells''Death!'' I shouted. ''Death is coming! Death!''In this pioneering, shocking and nightmarish tale, naïve suburban Londoners investigate a strange cylinder from space, but are instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray. Soon, gigantic killing machines that chase and feed on human prey are threatening the whole of humanity. A pioneering work of alien invasion fiction, The War of the World''s journalistic style contrasts disturbingly with its horrifying visions of the human race under siege.The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Scarlett Letter
Book SynopsisThe mother of the child, Hester Prynne, is publicly disgraced and ostracized but emerges as the first true heroine of American fiction.Trade Review"[Nathaniel Hawthorne] recaptured, for his New England, the essence of Greek tragedy." --Malcolm Cowley
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Oxford University Press The Sorrows of Young Werther
Book Synopsis''I have so much and my feeling for her devours everything, I have so much and without her everything is nothing.''The Sorrows of Young Werther propelled Goethe to instant fame when it first appeared in 1774. Goethe drew on his own unhappy experiences to tell the story of Werther, a young man tormented by his love for Lotte, a tender-hearted girl who is promised to someone else. Overwhelmed by his feelings, Werther begins to see only one way to escape from his anguish.Goethe''s story of a sensitive young artist alienated from society channelled the Romantic sensibility of the day and led to a wave of imitations. Werther''s searching introspection and the passionate intensity with which he bares his soul have an immediacy that is all the more powerful for being expressed in letters; charting the course of his emotions, they give added drama to the unfolding account. David Constantine''s new translation captures the novel''s lyric clarity, and his introduction and notes illuminate Goethe''s achievement. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Trade ReviewIn a new translation which skilfully draws attention to elements of self-imprisonments within the novella, we come to understand Goethe's desire to exorcise a part of himself. * Kristen Treen, The Observer *
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Penguin Books Ltd Beautiful Star
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewMishima is the Japanese Hemingway * Life Magazine *Strikingly different... Stephen Dodd's translation captures Mishima's dark humour, succinct style and dry wit -- Vanora Bennett * The Times Literary Supplement *A brilliant black comedy following the Osugi family, who come to the understanding that they are each from a different planet. This new knowledge strengthens their bond while solidifying a mission: to seek others of their kind and save humanity from the looming threat of the atomic bomb. This is an insightful, moving read. Mishima deserves a wider readership -- Irenosen Okojie * The i *Set in the early 1960s, this bonkers story of aliens trying to save mankind from nuclear war is told from the perspective of one family, all of whom come from a different planet. It's a biting social satire that's utterly transporting * Sunday Times Best Books for Summer 2023 *Ordinary people harbour the grandest (and most terrible) thoughts in a cosmological fable as disconcerting as it is funny: behind the simplest actions lie visions of worlds in collision -- Simon Ings * The Times *The Oscar Wilde of Japan ... one of Japan's great novelists ... his subtlety, warmth and wit shine through * Telegraph *A mixture of humour, high literary seriousness and flying saucers ... remarkable -- Sam Leith * Spectator *A writer of immense energy and ability * Time Out *One of the greatest avant-garde Japanese writers of the twentieth century * New Yorker *Among Japan's most celebrated post-war authors * Little White Lies *Interplanetary, quite extraordinary ... a fusion of sci-fi and social satire with great pathos, awash with dark humour and scenes of intense beauty ... Mishima blends the sublime and ridiculous in provocative and surprising ways ... a fresh and limpid translation -- Bryan Karetnyk * Financial Times *Moves from vividly described scenes of ordinary human life and the beauties of the natural world to arguments about human nature and whether peace is possible this side of death -- Lisa Tuttle * Guardian Best Recent Science Fiction *Its humour may be the book's most brilliant trait ... intense and earnest, the novel contains plenty of Mishima's spectacular writing ... an impressive accomplishment by Dodd in conveying a sense of import, sophistication and mastery of prose -- Eric Margolis * Japan Times *A delightfully strange, absorbing work. Full of humour and insight. Highly recommended -- Irenosen OkojieThe wunderkind of the Japanese literary world ... an extraordinary literary talent * The Times Literary Supplement *
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Penguin Books Ltd Riddley Walker
Book Synopsis''This is what literature is meant to be'' Anthony Burgess''O what we ben! And what we come to...'' Wandering a desolate post-apocalyptic landscape, speaking a broken-down English lost after the end of civilization, Riddley Walker sets out to find out what brought humanity here. This is his story.''Funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece'' Observer''A timeless portrayal of the human condition ... frightening and uncanny'' Will Self''A book that I could read every day forever and still be finding things'' Max PorterTrade ReviewRussell Hoban has brought off an extraordinary feat of imagination and of style ... funny, terrible, haunting and unsettling, this book is a masterpiece. * The Observer *You are syntactically and emotionally and politically absolutely in the book's spell. The way it changes is unbelievable; it is a living thing. -- Max PorterExtraordinary... a hero with Huck Finn's heart, lighting by El Greco and jokes by Punch and Judy... Fiercely imagined and intensely ponderable. * New York Times Book Review *Suffused with melancholy and wonder, beautifully written, Riddley Walker is a novel people will be reading for a long, long time. * Washington Post *This is what literature is meant to be. -- Anthony BurgessThe strongest, most desolate and bewildered voice in modern fiction. In the mental silence that followed the closing of the last page, I wanted to applaud, through tears. * Cosmopolitan *The book has an evangelical effect on people ... Riddley is an absorbing character, Hoban's language has a fantastic, rough poetry and the post-apocalyptic world is chilling and convincing. -- Rachel Seiffert * The Observer *
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Penguin Books Ltd Animal Farm
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Little, Brown Book Group Christmas at High Rising
Book SynopsisAn exclusive, never-before-collected selection of sparkling stories by Angela Thirkell that will charm, delight and entertain.Trade ReviewLaugh-out-loud funny and filled with memorable and realistically flawed characters * Stylist *Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself -- Alexander McCall SmithTo be so witty and charming yet also so brilliantly brusque and practical as Laura Morland is my new year's resolution -- Pippa Wright, author of The Foster HusbandHours of laugh-out-loud entertainment for all ages * The Lady *Charming, very funny indeed. Angela Thirkell is perhaps the most Pym-like of any twentieth-century author, after Pym herself -- Alexander McCall SmithThese stories are a seasonal delight ... they will provide hours of laugh-out-loud enjoyment for all ages * The Lady *To be so witty and charming yet also so brilliantly brusque and practical as Laura Morland is my new year's resolution -- Pippa Wright, author of The Foster Husband
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Little, Brown Book Group The Persian Boy
Book SynopsisA new edition of Mary Renault's masterpiece: a groundbreaking queer classic and 'one of the greatest historical novels ever written' (Sarah Waters). Perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Natalie Haynes and Pat Barker.
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Pan Macmillan Pride and Prejudice
Book SynopsisJane Austen was born in 1775 in rural Hampshire, the daughter of an affluent village rector who encouraged her in her artistic pursuits. In novels such as Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park and Emma she developed her subtle analysis of contemporary life through depictions of the middle classes in small towns. Her sharp wit and incisive portraits of ordinary people have given her novels enduring popularity. She died in 1817.Trade ReviewAn unputdownable read that challenges perceptions, and subtly marks a line in feminist history and thought -- Victoria Lambert * The Telegraph *Jane Austen’s self-enclosed world enveloped me, soothing in its contours and assumptions . . . irresistible -- Susan Chira * The New York Times *
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Arcturus Publishing At the Mountains of Madness and Other Stories
Book SynopsisH. P. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1890. Influenced by various literary interests, first in the Tales of Arabian Nights, then Greek mythology and also gothic tales told to him by his grandfather, Lovecraft mixed these together with an interest in science and gave voice to his ideas in a series of dark tales of fantasy and horror. He died in 1937, but his legacy lives on in a body of work that has inspired countless films, TV series, board games and toys, as well as the work of many other writers.
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Arcturus Publishing The Iliad
Book SynopsisLittle is known about the poet Homer. Some say he lived c. 850 BCE; others that he lived earlier - around 1102 BCE. But he is considered to be the first and the greatest of the epic poets and in addition to The Iliad is also thought to be the author of The Odyssey. Plato's Republic describes his importance to the ancient Greeks, calling him "the first teacher" of tragedy and the leader of learning.
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Penguin Books Ltd Fenny
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Union Square & Co. The Call of the Wild and White Fang
Book SynopsisIn Call of the Wild, Buck lives as a pampered house dog in California. He eats well, sleeps when he wants, and is treated with affection by his ownersthat is, until he is abducted by thieves and pressed into service as a sled dog for the Klondike Gold Rush. Mistreated by a succession of abusive owners, Buck comes to realize that the key to survival is channeling the instinctive wildness of his heritage, hitherto buried deep beneath the veneer of civilized life. White Fang tells the story of prospector Weedon Scott and White Fang, the dog he rescues from a cruel dog-fighter. Though the wolf-dog pup at first seems savage beyond rehabilitation, Scott's kind ministrations and earnest friendship eventually open the dog's heart to an acceptance of domestication. Written in the first decade of the twentieth century, Call of the Wild and White Fang are landmark tales of adventure that put Jack London's writing career on the map. They are also the work of a writer with an exquisite understand
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Union Square & Co. Christmas with Hans Christian Andersen
Book SynopsisThis stunning chapbook--perfect reading for the Christmas holidays--includes three classic winter tales by Hans Christian Andersen: The Little Match-Girl, The Fir-Tree, and The Snow Man.
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Union Square & Co. The Odyssey
Book SynopsisTen years have passed since the fall of Troy. The surviving Greek warriors who destroyed that city have returned home.
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Union Square & Co. Crime and Punishment
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Union Square & Co. Anne of Green Gables Anne of Avonlea
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Canterbury Classics Charles Dickens Four Novels
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Parthian Books The Summer Flood
Book SynopsisOwen Morgan, an Oxford undergraduate, returns to his family home on the rural north coast of Wales for the summer. Having left for university and completing his first year with a month in Germany, Owen returns as a changed man, altered by his experience of independence, new friendships, and the exploration of desire. While back at home, Owen recovers the feelings he had for his cousin Nest, while he tries to come to terms with his conflicted desires and struggles to align his own selfhood with the push and pull of love.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Pilgrims Progress Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisJohn Bunyan began this book while he was in prison for conducting unauthorised Baptist religious services outside of the Church of England. His path is straight but not easy, and he is beset by trials, including the terrible violence of the destructive Apollyon and the Giant Despair, as he pursues his pilgrimage through the Slough of Despond.
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Vintage Publishing The Sound and the Fury
Book SynopsisBorn in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably ThTrade ReviewOne of the most important works of American literature this century -- ObserverFaulkner has inexhaustible invention, powerful imagination, and he writes like an angel -- Arnold BennettFor range of effect, philosophical weight, originality of style, variety of characterisation, humour and tragic intensity [Faulkner's works] are without equal in our time and country -- Robert Penn WarrenIts unlike anything else in literature... The experience of reading it seemed closer to the experience of life than anything provided by a neatly contrived story line... After the war I read all I could of William Faulkner, and he continued to present some unique and, it seemed to me, valid way of looking at life -- Nicholas Mosley * Guardian *Not only was the book a kind of beginning for me, but that it endured still, it moved me deeply and remains "the damndest book I ever read" -- Niall Williams * Sunday Times *
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Adventures of Pinocchio MinaLima Edition
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£21.25
HarperCollins Publishers Unfinished Tales Deluxe Slipcase Edition
Book SynopsisDeluxe collector's edition featuring the definitive edition text and containing a full-colour reproduction of Tolkien's painting of the dragon, Glórund. The book is quarterbound, stamped on the front board with a gold motif previously seen only on the first edition hardback, and is presented in a matching slipcase.Unfinished Tales is a collection of narratives ranging in time from the Elder Days of Middle-earth to the end of the War of the Ring, and provides those who have read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with a whole collection of background and new stories.The book concentrates on the realm of Middle-earth and comprises such elements as The Quest of Erebor, Gandalf's lively account of how it was that he came to send the Dwarves to the celebrated party at Bag-End; the emergence of the sea-god Ulmo before the eyes of Tuor on the coast of Beleriand; and an exact description of the military organization of the Riders of Rohan.Unfinished Tales also contains the only story about the long ages of Númenor before its downfall, and all that is known about such matters as the Five Wizards, the Palantíri and the legend of Amroth. The tales were edited by Christopher Tolkien, who provides a short commentary on each story, helping the reader to fill in the gaps and put each story into the context of the rest of his father's writings.This deluxe collector's edition includes a full-colour facsimile of Tolkien's painting, Glórund Sets Forth to Seek Túrin', which illustrates his narrative The Children of Húrin', his colour design of a Númenórean tile, and a fold-out reproduction of the definitive map of Middle-earth drawn by Christopher Tolkien. The book is foil stamped with a Númenórean helmet design by J.R.R. Tolkien that appeared on the first edition hardback and is housed in a matching slipcase.Trade Review‘Moments of mythic grandeur’Sunday Times ‘Another monument to the incredible imagination of Tolkien’Sunday Telegraph
£56.25
Oxford University Press Barchester Towers
Book SynopsisBarchester Towers (1857) was the book that made Trollope's reputation and it remains his most popular and enjoyable novel. The arrival of a new bishop in Barchester sets the town in turmoil: who will come out on top in the battle between the archdeacon, the bishop, Mr Slope, and Mrs Proudie?
£8.54
