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84 Charing Cross Road
£9.9984 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 child’s Christmas in Wales & other stories and poems
£10.99A child’s Christmas in Wales & other stories and poems
A selection of the very best poems and stories by Dylan Thomas, one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century.
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A different sound
£12.99A different sound
During the 1940s and 1950s, female writers were producing a remarkable body of short stories – many of which have only recently begun to be appreciated. Selected and introduced by writer and critic Lucy Scholes, the stories in this collection provide tantalising snapshots of a changing society. They capture the long shadow of the Second World War and the subtle reconfigurations of domestic arrangements, ranging from a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the living rooms of the British Raj in India. This collection places stories from acclaimed writers such as Elizabeth Taylor, Daphne du Maurier and Elizabeth Bowen alongside lesser-known, but equally brilliant, works. Suffused with tension and longing, combining supernatural dread with internal disharmony, their writing is crystalline and elegant and their storytelling endlessly compelling.
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A far cry from Kensington
£9.99A far cry from Kensington
Mrs Hawkins, a comfortably large young widow, is often called upon to administer advice to colleagues and neighbours. But she follows her own advice, too, and turns from Mrs Hawkins into Nancy – quite a different proposition.
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A Kestrel For A Knave
£9.99A Kestrel For A Knave
This is the unsentimental story of the remarkable relationship between the desperate Billy, a friendless boy living in a soulless northern town, and the equally destructive, fierce kestrel, Kes, which he raises from the nest.
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A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
£8.99A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man
Joyce’s classic depiction of Stephen Dedalus’s boyhood and coming of age in Ireland at the turn of the century, his childhood, sexual awakening, intellectual development and revolt against Catholicism, remains one of the key works of modern literature.
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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
£9.99A tale of two cities
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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A vision of the world
£9.99A vision of the world
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, John Cheever – variously referred to as ‘Ovid in Ossining’ and the ‘Chekhov of the suburbs’ – forever altered the landscape of contemporary literature. In a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his short stories, often published in the ‘New Yorker’, gave voice to the repressed desires and smouldering disappointments of 1950s America as it teetered on the edge of spiritual awakening and sexual liberation in the ensuing Sixties.
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
£9.99Alice’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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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
£5.99Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Celebrating 150 years of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
£16.99Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
In the magical world of Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom, order is turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig; time is abandoned at a tea-party; and, a chaotic game of chess makes a 7-year-old a Queen.
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All quiet on the Western Front
£9.99All quiet on the Western Front
This story is told by a young soldier in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see the realities of war. Incidents are vividly described, but there is no sense of adventure, only the feeling of youth betrayed.
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And Then There Were None
£9.99And Then There Were None
The book that topped the international online poll held in Agatha Christie’s 125th birthday year to discover which of her 80 crime books was the world’s favourite.
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And then there were none
£22.00And then there were none
Solving the world’s most puzzling mystery novel just got even more fiendish in this gorgeous new hardback collector’s edition – with the final solution sealed in an envelope at the back of the book!Can you crack all the clues and catch the killer before you unseal the ending?
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Animal Farm
£8.99Animal Farm
Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite emerges and the other animals discover that they are not as equal as they thought.
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