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Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
£9.99Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen
Alice, a student with green spiky hair, is an aspiring novelist. A child of the modern age, she recoils at the idea of reading Jane Austen. In a sequence of letters, Weldon examines the rewards of such study.
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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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Push
£8.99Push
Precious Jones is a sixteen-year-old black girl who has never been out of Harlem. Here she tells the heart-rending story of her neglect and abuse, and of her own stubborn determination to acquire an education.
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Short stories in Italian
£9.99Short stories in Italian
This is a new version of the Parallel Texts series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original Italian and in English translation.
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
£9.99The Unbearable Lightness of Being
In this story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities, Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of 20th century “Being”. The novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of human existence.
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Norwegian Wood
£9.99Norwegian Wood
Toru Watanabe is looking back on the love and passions of his life and trying to make sense of it all. As his first love, Naoko, sinks deeper and deeper into mental despair, he is inexorably pushed to find new meanings and new love to survive.
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The Summer Book
£9.99The Summer Book
‘The Summer Book’ is a fresh, vivid and magical novel about seemingly endless summers of discovery. An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away the summer together, on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds and sudden storms.
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Short stories in German
£9.99Short stories in German
This volume of eight short stories offers students of German at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature with the aid of parallel translations.
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A Girl in Winter
£9.99A Girl in Winter
This compelling story of Katherine Lind and Robin Fennel, of winter and summer, of war and peace, of exile and holidays, is memorable for its compassionate precision and for the curious and unmistakable distinction of its writing.
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Jill
£9.99Jill
A subtle and moving account of a young English undergraduate from the provinces, this portrait of Oxford during the war is now regarded by many critics as a classic of its kind.
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The People On the Street
£9.99The People On the Street
One block of a Tel Aviv street is the starting point for Linda Grant’s exploration of the inner dynamics of Israelis, not the government and its policies, but the people. Iraqi shop keepers, teenage soldiers, mob bosses, Tunisian-born settlers, Russian scientists, the father of a suicide bomb victim and more.
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The Glass Castle
£8.99The Glass Castle
This is a memoir of a successful journalist’s journey from the deserted and dusty mining towns of the American Southwest, to an antique filled apartment on Park Avenue. Jeannette Walls narrates her nomadic and adventurous childhood with her dreaming, ‘brilliant’ but alcoholic parents.
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