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1	Jane Eyre more books like this by Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre is a poor young teacher who goes to work for the rich Mr Rochester. She loves him and wants to marry him and he loves Jane too, but he hides a terrible secret which will bring them both great sadness. "Penguin Readers" is a series of simplified novels, film novelizations and original titles that introduce students at all levels to the ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Naked more books like this by David Sedaris A collection of humorous stories, where the author takes to the road with a thieving quadriplegic, sorts out the fancy from the extra-fancy in a bleak fruit-packing factory, and confronts his naked self in the mirrored sunglasses of a lunatic. see all copies from £2.01! new only from £3.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
3	The Gathering more books like this by Anne Enright The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn't the drink that killed him - although that certainly helped - it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother's house, in the winter of 1968. His sister, Veronica was there then, as she is now: keeping the dead man company, ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
4	Anna Karenina more books like this by Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Count In 1872 the mistress of a neighbouring landowner threw herself under a train at a station near Tolstoy's home. This gave Tolstoy the starting point he needed for composing what many believe to be the greatest novel ever written. In writing "Anna Karenina" he moved away from the vast historical sweep of "War and Peace" to tell, with extraordinary ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Playing for Pizza more books like this by John Grisham A departure from his acclaimed legal thrillers, Grisham's #1 "New York Times" bestseller about an American's introduction to Italian football and food is now available in mass-market paperback. see all copies from £1.36! new only from £5.42! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Interpreter of Maladies more books like this by Jhumpa Lahiri Pulitzer-winning, scintillating studies in yearning and exile from a Bengali Bostonian woman of immense promise. A couple exchange unprecedented confessions during nightly blackouts in their Boston apartment as they struggle to cope with a heartbreaking loss; a student arrives in new lodgings in a mystifying new land and, while he awaits the ... see all copies from £2.01! new only from £6.51! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Running with Scissors: A Memoir more books like this by Augusten Burroughs "Running with Scissors" is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her psychiatrist, a dead-ringer for Santa and a lunatic in the bargain. Suddenly, at age twelve, Augusten Burroughs found himself living in a dilapidated Victorian in perfect squalor. The doctor's bizarre family, a ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire more books like this by Amanda Foreman Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England. Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire was one of the most flamboyant and influential women of the eighteenth century. The great-great-great-great aunt of Diana, Princess of Wales, she was variously a compulsive gambler, a political savante and ... see all copies from £2.02! new only from £8.14! \| signed copies \| first editions
9	Sex and the City more books like this by Candace Bushnell Equal parts soap opera, gossip page, sociological study and dating manual, "Sex and the City", Candace Bushnell's regular "New York Obsever" column has attracted a cult following in the US. This collection blazes a trail through a semi-fictional Manhattan, based on lightly-disguised celebrities and media types. Bushnell assembles a cast of freaks ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.19! \| signed copies \| first editions
10	Don Quixote more books like this by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra He lived in a small village in a dusty corner of Spain, a bony man of about fifty. He had little to do, and so he read. The flickering candle flame filled the corners of his room with ghostly shadows of giants and of dragons--for the only books he read were about the knights of old who roamed the countryside seeking adventures. The horizon ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Jazz more books like this by Toni Morrison Joe Trace, door-to-door salesman, erstwhile devoted husband, shoots to death his lover of three months, 18 year old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hardworking wife Violet tries to disfigure the corpse with a knife. Captures the complex humanity of black urban life. see all copies from £1.49! new only from £4.06! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	The Foxfire Book: Hog Dressing, Log Cabin Building, Mountain Crafts and Foods, Planting by the Signs, Snake Lore, Hunting Tales, Faith Healing, Moonshining more books like this by Foxfire Fund Inc, Eliot Wigginton (Editor) Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region. see all copies from £7.32! new only from £10.04! \| first editions
13 view cover	Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America more books like this by Bill Bryson "I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to". And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the films of his youth ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £6.14! \| signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil: A Savannah Story more books like this by John Berendt This account of a killing in a mansion in Savannah, Georgia is set in the heart of the American South, in the early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defence? The unpredictable twists and turns of a murder case are interwoven with a first-person account of life in the Old South. Filled with a cast of Savannah's eccentrics - the ... see all copies from £1.68! new only from £5.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	The Places in Between more books like this by Rory Stewart In January 2002, Rory Stewart survived a walk across Afghanistan by his wits, his knowledge of Persian dialects and Muslim customs, and the kindness of strangers. In this memoir, he writes about heroes and rogues, tribal elders and teenage soldiers, Taliban commanders and foreign-aid workers as he makes tangible the forces of tradition, ideology, ... see all copies from £5.30! new only from £6.49! \| first editions
16 view cover	The Complete Stories more books like this by Flannery O'Connor A complete collection of Flannery O'Connor's stories. They explore the social and personal tensions of the American South - between youth and age, gentility and poverty, enlightment and bigotry. see all copies from £5.67! new only from £10.60! \| first editions
17 view cover	To the Lighthouse more books like this by Virginia Woolf The text of this edition of To the Lighthouse is that of the English page proofs corrected by Virginia Woolf for the first American edition. This text comes closer than any previously published to presenting the novel as she intended it. All the corrections she made on the page proofs are reproduced, and the punctuation of the proofs is retained. ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Dubliners more books like this by James Joyce "Dubliners" is arguably the best-known and most influential collection of short stories written in English, and has been since its publication in 1914. Through what Joyce described as their "style of scrupulous meanness," the stories present a direct, sometimes searing view of Dublin in the early twentieth century. The text of this Norton Critical ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Devil in Winter more books like this by Lisa Kleypas Easily the shyest Wallflower, Evangeline Jenner stands to become the wealthiest, once her inheritance comes due. Because she must first escape the clutches of her unscrupulous relatives, Evie has approached the rake Viscount St. Vincent with a most outrageous proposition: marriage! Sebastian's reputation is do dangereous that thirty seconds alone ... see all copies from £5.46! new only from £5.97! \| first editions
20 view cover	Drown more books like this by Junot Díaz A debut collection of stories that move from the barrios of the Dominican Republic to the struggling urban communities of New Jersey. First published in 1996. see all copies from £6.82! new only from £8.53! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	Mansfield Park more books like this by Jane Austen '"Me!" cried Fanny..."Indeed you must excuse me. I could not act any thing if you were to give me the world. No, indeed, I cannot act."' At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park. There she accepts ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.36! \| first editions
22 view cover	Middlemarch more books like this by George Eliot Writing at the very moment when the foundations of Western thought were being challenged and undermined, George Eliot fashions in Middlemarch (1871-2) the quintessential Victorian novel, a concept of life and society free from the dogma of the past yet able to confront the scepticism that was taking over the age. In a panoramic sweep of English ... see all copies from £1.36! new only from £1.62! \| first editions
23 view cover	I'm a Stranger Here Myself: Notes on Returning to America After 20 Years Away more books like this by Bill Bryson Bill Bryson lived in Britain for 20 years, then returned with his family to the U.S. Here he writes about the process of re-entry--the shocks, the adjustments, the excesses, and (especially) the funny bits. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.66! \| first editions
24 view cover	Secrets of a Summer Night more books like this by L Kleypas This first title of a delectable new series introduces the delightful, husband-hunting "Wallflowers"--four young ladies who enter London society with the common goal of marriage. Here, Annabelle Peyton is determined to resist the titleless yet equally resolute seducer, Simon Hunt. Original. see all copies from £5.46! new only from £6.14! \| first editions
25 view cover	Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy more books like this by Frances Mayes Now in paperback, the #1 "San Francisco Chronicle" bestseller that is an enchanting and lyrical look at the life, the traditions, and the cuisine of Tuscany, in the spirit of Peter Mayle's "A Year in Provence." Frances Mayes entered a wondrous new world when she began restoring an abandoned villa in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. There were ... see all copies from £1.59! new only from £4.78! \| signed copies \| first editions

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