Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction
Les prairies numériques The Castle of Otranto
£19.35
Les prairies numériques The Child of the Cavern
£19.44
Les prairies numériques The Eight Strokes of the Clock
£21.33
Les prairies numériques The Great Impersonation
£22.86
Les prairies numériques The House on the Borderland
£20.88
Les prairies numériques The Incredulity of Father Brown
£21.42
Les prairies numériques The Innocence of Father Brown
£22.95
Les prairies numériques The Island of Doctor Moreau
£19.35
Les prairies numériques The Kingdom of God Is Within You
£23.76
Les prairies numériques The Lady of the Barge
£19.53
Les prairies numériques The Lerouge Case
£23.76
Les prairies numériques The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
£21.96
Les prairies numériques The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
£21.33
Les prairies numériques The Prime Minister
£38.94
Les prairies numériques The Prisoner of Zenda
£21.06
Les prairies numériques The Secret History
£19.44
Les prairies numériques The Son of the Wolf
£19.53
Les prairies numériques The Three Impostors
£20.97
HarperCollins Publishers The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Collins
Book SynopsisHarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.
£9.86
HarperCollins Publishers Halloween Party
Book SynopsisThe inspiration for A Haunting in Venice now a major motion picture.When a Hallowe'en party turns deadly, it falls to Hercule Poirot to unmask a murdererDuring a night of party games, Joyce Reynolds boasts that she once witnessed a murder. No one believes her, but then she is found drowned, face down in an apple-bobbing tub.Set against a night of trickery and the occult, Hercule Poirot and Ariadne Oliver must race to uncover the real evil responsible for this ghastly murder.Hallowe'en Party is the sensational Agatha Christie novel that inspired the brand new feature film directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh. This special edition is introduced by its screenwriter, Michael Green.Trade Review‘A thundering success… a triumph for Hercule Poirot.’–Daily Mirror ‘Complex and sinister, with echoes of old legends and no flagging of the accustomed verve.’–Sunday Telegraph
£7.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Eighth Day
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Native Son
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£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Great Short Works of Edgar Allan Poe
Book SynopsisThe classic poems and spine-tingling stories of an American gothic master collected in one volumeOf all the American writers, Edgar Allan Poe staked out perhaps the most unique and vivid reputation as a master of the macabre. Even today, in the age of horror movies and high-tech haunted houses, Poe remains the first choice of entertainment for many who want a spine-chilling thrill.Born in Boston in 1809, and dead at the age of forty, Poe wrote across several fields during his life and was noted for his poetry and short stories as well as his criticism. The best of each of these is collected here, including the classic poem “The Raven,” and beloved stories like “The Tell-Tale Heart.” In his introduction to this volume, G. R. Thompson argues that Poe was a great satirist and comedic craftsman, as well as a formidable Gothic writer. “All of Poe’s fiction,” Thompson writes, “and the poems as
£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc War and Peace
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£21.24
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Native Son
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£13.50
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Ham on Rye
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£14.39
HarperCollins The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
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£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Joy in the Morning
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£17.09
HarperCollins Publishers Inc To Kill a Mockingbird
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£26.24
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Book SynopsisSuitable for "Oz" fanatics both young and old around the world, this publication intends to leverage the promotion and marketing of the film, "Oz, the Great and Powerful".
£15.52
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Jane Eyre
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£16.14
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Emma Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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£19.00
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Lost Horizon
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£15.19
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Middlemarch
Book SynopsisGeorge Eliot?s beloved classic novel?hailed by Virginia Woolf as ?masterful??follows the life, loves, foibles, and politics of the residents of a fictional English town set amid the social unrest of the Industrial Revolution. This beautifully designed Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition?with special cover effects and French flaps?includes an introduction by award-winning author Francine Prose.Dorothea Brooke married Edward Casaubon?a clergyman and scholar some years her senior?naively hoping their union would be a true meeting of the minds. Trapped in a lonely marriage to a tyrannical man, she finds companionship with Edward?s cousin, but her overtures risk her spotless reputation and jeopardize her future.Young doctor Tertius Lydgate comes to Middlemarch full of progressive ideas, eager to volunteer his skill at the local hospital. Through his connections there he meets the mayor?s beautiful daughter, Rosamond Vincy, and marries her, only to face financial ruin at the hands of her materialism and overwhelming vanity.Rosamond?s brother, Fred, is destined for the Church to improve his family?s class standing, but his childhood sweetheart, Mary Garth, refuses to marry him unless he pursues a more suitable career. Forced by fate into uncertain financial circumstances, Fred must question his choices and desires if he hopes to earn Mary?s respect.God-fearing and esteemed, Nicholas Bulstrode is a good man and trustworthy banker?or so it appears until an old enemy comes to town, intent on revealing Bulstrode?s shady past dealings. Terrified of being exposed as a hypocrite, he takes matters into his own hands, each desperate act spiraling him further into disgrace and corruption.A masterwork of fiction,Middlemarchtraces these four lives in a plot that illuminates the social fabric of mid-nineteenth-century England. Looming above the landscape of Victorian literature, Eliot?s beloved novel explores the perennial struggle between individual and society, integrity and temptation, and is as timely today as when it was first published.
£18.70
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Villette
Book SynopsisA deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from Mallory Ortberg, New York Times best-selling author of Texts from Jane EyreCharlotte Bronte’s final and most autobiographical novel—even more critically acclaimed than Jane Eyre during its time—is a brilliant story of repressed passion and unrequited love in the fictional French town of VilletteLucy Snowe is a young woman alone in the world after a terrible event of which she never speaks. With no home, no family, and no prospects, she sets out on her own to the small French town of Villette, where she finds work as a governess at a boarding school for girls. When a handsome doctor from her past appears in Villette, Lucy believes she may at last be free of loneliness—if her rigorous self-control doesn’t conceal her true feelings.Based on Charlotte Bronte’s own experiences at a boarding school in Belgium, Villette
£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Varina
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£22.39
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Go Set a Watchman
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£20.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Go Set a Watchman
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£37.50
HarperCollins Publishers Inc My Dear Hamilton A Novel of Eliza Schuyler
Book SynopsisFrom the New York Times bestselling authors of America’s First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton—a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy.
£16.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc American Duchess
Book SynopsisTrade Review“This is a fascinating story about an extraordinary woman.” — Gill Paul, bestselling author of The Secret Wife “This absorbing and evocative tale is an excellent reminder of what women have long sacrificed over the centuries for family honor and duty, and how they navigated their circumstances and influence to change the world for the better.” — Heather Webb, international bestselling author of Last Christmas in Paris
£14.07
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Quintland Sisters
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Wood cleverly combines fact and fiction in a fast-paced novel that will leave readers contemplating how the best intentions of government intervention can have dire, unanticipated consequences.” — Publishers Weekly “...an ambitious, meticulously researched, and imaginative debut novel that is engrossing and compelling. Exploring the shared sisterhood of the quintuplets’ caretakers and the trouble with unwanted celebrity, this heartwarming novel will win over loyal readers of Patricia Harman, Jodi Picoult, and Carol Cassella.” — Booklist “The Quintland Sisters is an impeccably researched historical novel that will enthrall you. From the moment Shelley Wood introduced the remarkable Dionne quintuplets, I was utterly captivated...I could not get this story out of my head long after I finished reading it.” — Joanna Goodman, author of The Home for Unwanted Girls “This gorgeously written novel about miracles, love and resilience is perfect for fans of Joanna Goodman.” — Marissa Stapley, bestselling author of Mating for Life and Things to Do When It’s Raining “...a stunning novel...Meticulously researched and sensitively told, this book is a journey not to be missed.” — Heather Young, author of The Lost Girls “...Wood deftly captures the fascinating collisions between faith and science, powerful and poor, and the tensions that arise when a rural town and its inhabitants are cast under the relentless scrutiny of the public’s obsession with one extraordinary family.” — Elise Hooper, author of The Other Alcott and Learning to See “A charming and well-researched… tale of love and survival.” — Kirkus Reviews “As only the best historical fiction can, The Quintland Sisters transports the reader to another time period and shines a light on an event that has an impact on its era and about which the actual details are little known.” — New York Journal of Books “An engaging and thoughtful fictionalized account of the early lives of the Dionne quintuplets . . . Wood’s research is woven into the fabric of the story and her characters are well dimensioned and human.” — Yakima Herald
£12.73
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Collected Novels of Charles Wright
Book Synopsis“Reading Wright is a steep, stinging pleasure.”—Dwight Garner, New York TimesIn this incisive, satirical collection of three classic American novels by Charles Wright—hailed by the New York Times as “malevolent, bitter, glittering”—a young, black intellectual from the South struggles to make it in New York City. This special compilation includes a foreword by acclaimed poet and novelist Ishmael Reed, who calls Wright, “Richard Pryor on paper.”As fresh and poignant as when originally published in the sixties and seventies, The Messenger, The Wig, and Absolutely Nothing to get Alarmed About form Charles Wright’s remarkable New York City trilogy. By turns brutally funny and starkly real, these three autobiographical novels create a memorable portrait of a young, working-class, black intel
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Another Womans Husband
Book SynopsisAs the world mourns the loss of Diana, Princess of Wales, one young woman uncovers a forgotten story of passion, betrayal, and a scandal surrounding the British crown in this unforgettable novel by the bestselling author of The Secret Wife. Two women who challenged the Crown.Divided by time. Bound by a secret...1911: When fifteen-year-old Mary Kirk meets Wallis Warfield at summer camp, she’s immediately captivated by her fearless, brazen, and self-assured personality. And Wallis has a way with the boys who are drawn to her like moths to a flame. Though Mary’s family isn’t crazy about her new best friend, she steadfastly stands by her side—even years later when they’re adults and rumors swirl about Wallis and her reckless behavior with none other than the Prince of Wales. But when Mary’s loyalty to Wallis comes into question, their friendship will be put to the ultimate test.1997: After a roman
£14.39
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Lost Daughter
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£15.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Trinity
Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed author of Speak comes a kaleidoscopic novel about Robert Oppenheimer—father of the atomic bomb—as told by seven fictional charactersJ. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. He loyally protected his Communist friends, only to later betray them under questioning. He repeatedly lied about love affairs. And he defended the use of the atomic bomb he helped create, before ultimately lobbying against nuclear proliferation.Through narratives that cross time and space, a set of characters bears witness to the life of Oppenheimer, from a secret service agent who tailed him in San Francisco, to the young lover of a colleague in Los Alamos, to a woman fleeing McCarthyism who knew him on St. John. As these men and women fall into the orbit of a brilliant but mercurial mind at work, all consider his complicated legacy while also uncover
£21.59
HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Lighthouse Keepers Daughter
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£16.99
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Avem Occidere Mimicam
Book SynopsisVoted America’s Best-Loved Novel by The Great American Read series, PBS Harper Lee’s beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning classic novel To Kill a Mockingbird, now translated into Latin.“Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ’em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”A haunting portrait of race and class, innocence and injustice, hypocrisy and heroism, tradition and transformation in the Deep South of the 1930s, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird remains as important today as it was upon its initial publication in 1960, during the turbulent years of the Civil Rights movement.A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of young Scout, as her father Atticus Finch, a crusading local lawyer, risks everything to defend a
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Joyce Girl
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