Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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1984
£8.991984
The year is 1984 and war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother. Mass surveillance is everything and The Thought Police are employed to ensure that no individual thinking is allowed. Winston Smith works at The Ministry of Truth, carefully rewriting history, but he dreams of freedom and of rebellion. It is here that he meets and falls in love with Julia. They start a secret, forbidden affair – but nothing can be kept secret, and they are forced to face consequences more terrifying than either of them could have ever imagined.
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84 Charing Cross Road
£8.9984 Charing Cross Road
A timeless classic that should be on every book-lover’s ‘must read’ list. First published in 1971, 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD has never been out of print.
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A book lover’s guide to the zodiac
£10.99A book lover’s guide to the zodiac
If you love reading and you always check your horoscope, then this gorgeous little book is perfect for you.
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A Christmas carol
£25.00A Christmas carol
An exquisitely illustrated, luxury collector’s edition of Dickens’s Christmas tale.
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A glass of blessings
£9.99A glass of blessings
Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, good looking and fairly young – but very bored. Her husband Rodney, a handsome army major, is slightly balder and fatter than he once was. Her interest wanders to the Anglo-Catholic church, where she neglects her comfortable household for the company of three unmarried priests – and Piers Longridge.
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A Kind of Anger
£9.99A Kind of Anger
A car hurtles down the driveway of a luxury villa in Switzerland. The driver is a young woman, Lucia Bernardi. Inside the house, police find the body of her lover on the bedroom floor. The dead man – Ahmed Fathir Arbil – was an Iraqi refugee, who has been tortured and killed. Lucia vanishes into hiding in the South of France. Piet Mass, a journalist for the World Reporter, sets out on Lucia’s trail, hoping for a scoop. Soon he must decide whether to publish his story -which will lead to Lucia’s exposure and almost certain death – or join her in executing a perilous scheme that could net them both a fortune.
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A Passage to India
£9.99A Passage to India
What really happened to Miss Quested in the Marabar Caves? This tantalising question provides the intense drama of racial tension at the centre of Forster’s last and greatest novel.
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A Room With A View
£7.99A Room With A View
Forster’s social comedy is a witty observation of the English middle classes as they holiday abroad in Florence. One of these tourists is Lucy Honeychurch, a young girl whose heart is awakened by her experiences in Italy.
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A Tale of Two Cities
£16.99A Tale of Two Cities
Rich in drama and romance, this deftly plotted 1859 historical novel bristles with suspense and culminates in a daring prison escape in the shadow of the guillotine.
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Adrift in the Middle Kingdom
£12.99Adrift in the Middle Kingdom
This 1934 novel Adrift in the Middle Kingdom (Het leven op aarde), is an epic sweep of narrative that takes the reader from 1920s Shanghai to a forgotten city beyond the Great Wall of China.
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Alice in Wonderland
£9.99Alice in Wonderland
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader.
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Alice in Wonderland – A Card and Trivia Game
£10.00Alice in Wonderland – A Card and Trivia Game
Do you know your dormice from your dodo birds? Exactly how tall is the Caterpillar? What does the liquid in the bottle labelled ‘Drink Me’ taste of?Tumble down the rabbit hole and put your knowledge to the test with 52 trivia and game cards, each one featuring a multiple-choice trivia question, charade, game or challenge about the people and places of Lewis Carroll’s beloved classics.Illustrated with John Tenniel’s exquisite drawings of characters and scenes, the cards double as a game of Snap, Memory, Quartets or Swap, making this fun for all the family.Presented in a foiled gift box and with a booklet that contains the rules of play to four traditional card games, this is the perfect gift for literature lovers.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
£20.00Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
A collector’s edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking Glass, with letters, poems and a biography of their creator, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Featuring over 100 black and white illustrations by Arthur Rackham and Sir John Tenniel.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
£25.00Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
A beautiful reimagining of this beloved children’s book featuring full-colour illustrations by Chris Riddell, the 2015-2017 UK Children’s Laureate.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
£8.99Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
A beautiful illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll’s classic story for children, with an afterword by Anna South.
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Animal Farm
£7.99Animal Farm
When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take control. Soon the other animals discover that they are not all as equal as they thought, and find themselves hopelessly ensnared as one form of tyranny is replaced with another.
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