Classic fiction

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  Brave New World

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  The World Controllers have created the ideal society. Genetic science has brought the human race to perfection. From the Alpha-Plus mandarin class to the Epsilon Semi-Morons, man is bred and educat...

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  Coming Home

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  Judith Dunbar has never really known a settled family life, so when her friend invites her home for the weekend, she is thrilled and excited.

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  Shell Seekers

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  Artist’s daughter Penelope Keeling can look back on a full and varied life, yet she is far too energetic and independent to settle sweetly into pensioned-off old age. Now she is faced with a ...

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  I’ll Never Be Young Again

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  As far as his father, an accomplished poet, is concerned, Richard will never amount to anything, and so he decides to take his fate into his own hands. But at the last moment, he is saved by Jake, ...

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  The Parasites

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  Maria, Niall and Cecila have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents – their father, a flamboyant singer and their mother, a talented dancer. Now pursuing their own creative dreams, al...

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  Flight Of The Falcon

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  As a young guide for Sunshine Tours, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if humdrum life – until he becomes circumstantially involved in the murder of an old peasant woman in Rome. He gradually c...

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  Vintage Classics To The Lighthouse

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  ‘To the Lighthouse’ was Virginia Woolf’s fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the ...

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  Vintage Classic Brighton Rock

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  A gang war is raging in Brighton. Pinkie is 17 and fighting for leadership. He has already proved his ruthlessness by killing Hale, a journalist. But he isn’t prepared for the courageous Ida ...

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  The Birds and Other Stories

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  A collection of sinister short stories including ‘The Birds’ which was famously adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock.

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  Kings General

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  Honor Harris is only 18 when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless – and utterly captivating. But following a riding accident, Honor must reconcile herself to a life alone. As Ric...

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  Scapegoat

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  This is a novel rich in character and imagination which exposes a family network of hatred, deceit and jealousy.

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  Julius

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  Julius Levy sacrifices everything to a ruthless ambition. After adventures in Europe and Africa he reaches England, where his ambition is quickly realised. As he claws his way to wealth, he cares f...

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  Vintage Classics Snows Of Kilimanjaro

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  From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring; from rural America with its deceptive calm to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of the sto...

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  Rule Britannia

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  Du Maurier brings us a tale of a future where England has entered into political, military and economic union with the United States, only to find it is beginning to look like a takeover bid by the...

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  Christmas Carol & Other Writings

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  This is a one-volume collection of Dickens’ most popular Christmas stories and articles. It includes ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘The Haunted Man’ and a few short items from ...

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  My Cousin Rachel

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  Ambrose Ashley, Philip’s cousin, guardian and god, married Rachel in Italy, and died there. Jealous of his marriage and grief-stricken by his death, Philip prepares to meet his cousin’s...

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  PC Dracula

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  Bram Stoker’s novel became one of the masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a world of vampires and vampire hunters whilst simultaneously exposing the dark corners of Victoria...

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  PC Count Of Monte Cristo

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  ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ is one of the great popular novels of all time and a landmark in the development of modern popular fiction. Robin Buss’s lively English translation rem...

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  Jamaica Inn

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  Her mother’s dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. With the coachman’s warning echo...

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  PC Wuthering Heights

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  At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff – recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the de...

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  Rebecca

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  Du Maurier’s famous tale of suspense, mystery and love concerns Maxim de Winter’s shy new bride and the house she is to inhabit, but that still reverberates to the haunting presence of ...

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  The Grapes Of Wrath

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  Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. It tells of the Joad family who travel West in sear...

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  Vintage Classics Our Man In Havana

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  Wormold’s daughter had reached an expensive age – so he accepted a mysterious Englishman’s offer of extra income. All he has to do is run agents, file reports, and spy. But his fa...

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  PMC Wide Sargasso Sea & Notes

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  This is Jean Rhys’ powerful and compassionate story of the first Mrs Rochester, haunted by her brother’s death and the madness of her mother, she is trapped in a marriage with a man who...

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  Brideshead Revisited

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  Written at the end of the World War II, this novel mourns the passing of the aristocratic world which Waugh knew in his youth and recalls the sensuous pleasures denied him by the austerities of war...

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