New This Month In Fiction
Here is a selection of fiction books that have been published this month. Can't find what you want? Search on Bookshop.orgShowing 13–24 of 5125 results
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Mansfield Park
£11.99Mansfield Park
First published in 1814, this is a study of three families – the Bertrams, the Crawfords and the Prices – in which Jane Austen uses the unlikely heroine, Fanny Price, to explore the social and moral values by which these families’ lives are ordered.
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Northanger Abbey
£10.99Northanger Abbey
Portraying social life in fashionable Bath and centred around Catherine Morland, this novel ridicules the popular tales of romance and terror and contrasts with these the normal realities of life.
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Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman!
£10.99Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman!
Richard Feynman was one of the world’s greatest theoretical physicists. Over a period of years, Feynman’s conversations with his friend Ralph Leighton were first taped and then set down as they appear here, little changed from their spoken form, giving a wise, funny, passionate and totally honest self-portrait.
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Brodie’s Notes On Ben Jonson’s Volpone
£19.99Brodie’s Notes On Ben Jonson’s Volpone
Aids English literature GCSE and A-Level students in their coursework projects and study of set texts by increasing understanding and enjoyment of the books. The book is designed to provide imaginative responses, and should stimulate independent critical appraisal of “Volpone” by Ben Jonson.
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The Secret History
£9.99The Secret History
Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the humdrum existence of their contemporaries.
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The Long and the Short and the Tall
£11.49The Long and the Short and the Tall
The “Heinemann Plays” series offers contemporary drama and classic plays in durable classroom editions. Many have large casts and an equal mix of boy and girl parts. Set in the Malayan jungle in 1942, this play explores what happens when soldiers have to confront the reality of war.
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Fanny Hill, Or, Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure
£2.00Fanny Hill, Or, Memoirs of A Woman of Pleasure
Published in 1748-9, this novel is a mocking parody of the warning moralism as seen in Defoe’s novels. Rather than ending in misery, Fanny Hill rises from poverty to a middle-class existence as wife and mother via several stages of prostitution.
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Owl Babies
£7.99Owl Babies
A gentle tale of three baby owls reassures young children that Mummy will always come home.
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
£7.99Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
The Mississippi of the 1930s is a hard place for a black child to grow up in. Cassie begins to reach a painful understanding of life when she witnesses the hatred and destruction around her, and learns when it is important to fight for principle.
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The Bible
£14.99The Bible
Now in wide-spread use in churches, colleges and schools, this bible uses ‘British English’ Anglicized text.
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