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In his early teens, Mehran moves from Karachi, the rainless place of his childhood to London, the rainy city his father has always loved. At the age ... More

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When Theodore Gumbril hits upon the notion of designing a type of pneumatic trouser to ease the discomfort of the sedentary life, he decides the time ... More

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Damian Baxter is very, very rich - and he's dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. ... More

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Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, "Vile Bodies" reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering ... More

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Fowler's End is a bustling, ram-shackle community where bathtubs are considered effete. Daniel Laverock comes to the neighbourhood in search of ... More

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There's love, and there's revenge. Betsy Lou Saegessor is bent on revenge. Her father is dead, and to top it off, the vast fortune that should have ... More

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Dickens' final novel, "Our Mutual Friend", is acclaimed as his most sophisticated work, combining deep psychological insight with rich social ... More

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In the CLASSICS series, this collection of Dickens' earliest published writings, illustrated by George Cruikshank, tell the story of a young reporter ... More

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Charles Dickens's last completed novel tells the story of a young man who must marry a stranger in order to win his inheritance. Wanting to learn the ... More

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Born to hardworking immigrant parents in sunny suburban Los Angeles, Stephen Newman never imagined that he would spend his adult life under the grey ... More

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A fast-moving, elegant novel set in contemporary London in the glittering world of charity auctions, big business, high art, and more than enough ... More

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His first published collection, these twelve stories were written between 1907 and 1914, during a crucial period of development for Lawrence from ... More

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"Monday or Tuesday" contains eight beautiful tales from the strange mind of Virginia Woolf, one of the 20th century's most innovative--and most ... More

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Each story in Love Among the Haystacks appears in a new, authoritative text.

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Middle-aged Catherine Middleton, married to an obtuse but endearing older man, is the still center of a swirl of two generations of "gentry" on the ... More

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St Mawr and Other Stories consists of the long novella St Mawr, two short stories 'The Overtone' and 'The Princess', and two unfinished stories 'The ... More

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are ... More

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Celine's third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol's Band follows the narrator's ... More

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The acclaimed British author Weldon turns her gimlet-eyed wit and keen eye on--herself. In this engaging autobiography, Fay looks back on her own ... More

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In 2009, six years after her mother's death, Gully Wells returns to La Migoua, the house in Provence which belonged to her mother - the glamorous, ... More

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This text celebrates this unique gathering, setting it against a backdrop of change, reflected in the preoccupations of the diners as they sat on ... More

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