Classic fiction: literary and general
Suma de Letras Tierra de nadie
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£18.41
Suma de Letras La frontera de cristal
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£13.25
Suma de Letras Para esta noche
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£999.99
Suma de Letras La vida breve / A Brief Life
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£13.25
Suma de Letras Estrella distante
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£12.95
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Hijos de Dune / Children of Dune
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£15.56
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Casa capitular / Chapterhouse Dune
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£16.35
Grupo Anaya, S.A. Leyendas
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£15.89
Visor Don Quijote de La Mancha
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£21.52
Debolsillo Todos los cuentos
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£14.72
Debolsillo ¿Quién mato a Palomino Molero? / Who Killed
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£15.39
Debolsillo Ensayo sobre la lucidez / Seeing
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£999.99
Debolsillo El hombre duplicado / The Double
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£13.95
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Crimen y castigo / Crime and Punishment
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£12.50
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Moby Dick (Spanish Edition)
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£14.96
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Cumbres borrascosas / Wuthering Heights
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£14.64
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial La isla del tesoro / Treasure Island
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£12.92
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes (edición
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£14.61
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Jane Eyre (Spanish Edition)
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£16.07
Nordica Libros Mary/Maria/Mathilda
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£30.91
Nuevas Ediciones de Bolsillo Ojos de perro azul
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£11.88
Debolsillo Rebelión en la granja / Animal Farm
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£13.06
Debolsillo El cementerio de Praga / The Prague Cemetery
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£18.76
Rupa Publications India Pvt Ltd. The Lion of Kashmir
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£14.11
Ebury Publishing The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Book SynopsisCharles Dickens died half way through writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and ever since speculation has been rife as to how the tale might have unfolded. For this intriguing two-part adaptation for BBC2, for prime-time January 2012, acclaimed screenwriter Gwyneth Hughes (Five Days, Miss Austen Regrets) scoured the text for clues indicating how the great author might have finished this masterpiece, and has drawn from those leads a seamless, compelling and surprisingly modern story of obsessive love, betrayal and murder. This tie-in edition of Dickens's unfinished text will also include an Afterword by Gwyneth Hughes, offering her own conclusion, and revealing how she knitted the strands from the original plot and her own work together to bring the book to a satisfying close.Key cast list: Matthew Rhys (Brothers & Sisters) as John Jasper; Rory Kinnear (Hamlet, Women In Love, Lennon Naked) as Reverend Septimus Crisparkle; Freddie Fox (Worried About The Boy, The Shadow Line) as Edwin Drood; Tamzin Merchant (Jane Eyre, Miranda, The Tudors) plays Rosa Bud; Alun Armstrong (New Tricks, Garrow's Law) as Hiram Grewgious, Rosa's guardian; Julia McKenzie (Cranford, Miss Marple) plays the Reverend's mother, Mrs Crisparkle; David Dawson (Luther, The Road To Coronation Street) as Bazzard; Ron Cook (Little Dorrit) as Durdles; Sacha Dhawan (Five Days 2) as Neville Landless; Amber Rose Revah (House Of Saddam) plays Helena Landless, Neville's twin sister; Ian McNeice (Doctor Who) as Mayor Sapsea; Janet Dale (Holby; Casualty) as Miss Twinkleton; Ellie Haddington (Luther) as Princess Puffer; and young Alfie Davis plays Deputy.
£11.99
Ashgrove Publishing Ltd Mauresque
Book SynopsisRecently graduated from Oxford University, idealistic and headstrong Jeremy Ashland obtains a job teaching English at a language school in the Casablanca of the 1960s. Determined to be accepted as an enlightened foreigner at a time when Moroccan society is emerging from the trauma of colonialism, he plunges dangerously into local and expatriate circles. 'Mauresque' is also the story of Jeremy’s forbidden love for an upper-class Moroccan girl with revolutionary aspirations – a relationship that mirrors the tensions between Moroccans themselves in their search for a new nationhood. Evocative, stylistic and wide-ranging, Mauresque immerses the reader in a world of clandestine relationships, political intrigue, drug smuggling, murder and sorcery.
£16.14
Carcanet Press Ltd The Sin of Father Amaro
Book SynopsisJacinto, an absentee noble from Portugal, revels in joyous extreme in the latest of French sophistications. Circumstances compel his return to his family estates where he rediscovers the values and pleasures of Portuguese traditional life, but there are doubts about this perfection he finds.
£999.99
Carcanet Press Ltd The Maias
Book SynopsisCarlos is the talented heir to a notable family in fin-de-siecle Lisbon. He aspires to serve his fellow man in his chosen profession of medicine, in the arts and in politics. But he enters a society affected by powerful international influences - French intellectual developments, English trading practices - that trouble and frustrate him and in the end he is reduced to a kind of spiritual helplessness. Carlos' good intentions decline, amiably, into dilettantism; his passionate love affair itself begins to suffer a devastating constraint. "The Maias" tells a compelling story of characters whose lives become as real and engrossing as any in Flaubert, Balzac or Dickens. This is his masterpiece, a novel of intellectual depth, historical compassion and great wit. Hailed as a masterpiece in the Paris of Flaubert, Balzac and Zola, this remains Eca's most popular novel.
£26.99
Dedalus Ltd Abbe Jules
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£8.99
Dedalus Ltd Quest for the Absolute
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£8.49
Dedalus Ltd Autumn and Winter Sonatas
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£7.99
21 Publishing Ltd Against Nature: with illustrations by William
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£22.50
Persephone Books Ltd Reuben Sachs
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£16.00
Persephone Books Ltd The Young Pretenders
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£16.00
Dedalus Ltd Celestina: a Tragicomic Tale of Love
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£9.99
Sparkling Books Ltd The True Friend
Book SynopsisTrue to Goldoni's mixture of comic wit and farce, the plot is a breathtakingly fast succession of twists and turns which only unravel in the very final lines with a surprise ending. Two friends are in love with the same young woman. Neither wants to place their friendship in jeopardy. How can love triumph without breaking off their friendship? Goldoni explores the conflicts brought about when Florindo has to choose between Lelio, his best friend, and Rosaura, his best friend's fiancee. Added to this conundrum are the issues of whether Ottavio, the old miser, will provide a dowry and the mature Beatrice's unashamed incessant pursuit of Florindo. The play is set in Bologna in Lelio's house. Florindo is a guest along with his faithful manservant. From the opening of the play, Florindo seeks to return home to Venice in order not to damage his friend's relationship. However, his departure is obstructed time and again by his hosts, leading to one complication after another. From the beginning, the plot is intense and fast-moving with inversions fed into the action in quick succession. This creates suspense which continues throughout the play as potential marriage partners are switched back and forth until the very ending when the audience finally discovers what the main characters' destiny will be. Will love or friendship prevail? The Venetian element is brought into this play through Florindo and his manservant, both Venetians. Apart from these two characters, all the others are portrayed as self-seeking, selfish and sly - whether servants or masters. The tension is kept at a constantly high level by the struggles between the characters. These struggles are not just brought about through love and friendship but are also generational and social. Furthermore, there is the added complication in the contrast of the characters' ideas of reality as they deceive one another. This creates dramatic irony and humour as the audience know more than any of the characters on stage.Trade Review"a great gift for students of Italian/English, for students of Goldoni and Italian theatre, or for theatre-lovers. Or for a true friend." - Words to good effect
£12.57
Dedalus Ltd Ida Brandt
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£9.99
Dedalus Ltd As Trains Pass By (Katinka)
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£9.99
Five Leaves Publications Two Short Stories
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£7.14
Dedalus Ltd The Life of Courage: The Notorious Thief, Whore
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£8.99
Dedalus Ltd The Illustrious House of Ramires
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£12.34
Dedalus Ltd S Sappho
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£9.99
Dedalus Ltd The Continuation of Simplicissimus
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£7.99
Persephone Books Ltd Effi Briest
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£16.00
Persephone Books Ltd The New Magdalen
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£16.00
Fairlight Books The Piano Room
Book SynopsisSandor Esterhazy is descended from a long line of talented pianists, but has no desire to play. So, one snowy afternoon, he promises his soul to the devil in exchange for a life of his own choosing. Afterwards, he laughs it off as a joke, but that night the devil arrives dragging someone - or something - with him.Trade Review'Like a beautiful melody played on the very edge of hearing, The Piano Room demands your attention while remaining elusive. Utterly captivating' —Lynda Clark, author of 'Dreaming in Quantum and Other Stories'; 'A dark and beautifully written tale, seeped in music, yearning and breathless intrigue' —Edward Vass, author of 'Milton in Purgatory'
£8.54
Dedalus Ltd This was the Man: Lui
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£11.39
Eglantyne Books Eric's Story: The Book That Was Banned In New
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£9.99
