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 story of old-fashioned village life wrote George Eliot of Silas Marner, whose Wordsworthian theme is the remedial influence of pure, natural human...

'Whenever I see Martino I am reminded of how little I know about life and death compared to him. How we don't know what is within us or what may li...

SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARMOJO BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occ...

Cubicle farms are full of enemy combatants begging to be taken out.' WIREDAchieve clandestine ends practically and inexpensively with Desk Wars - p...

Oliver Twists famous cry of the heart — Please, sir, I want some more — has resounded with generations of readers of all ages. The author poured hi...

An Observer and Spectator Book of the YearLonglisted for the Historical Writing Association Gold Crown AwardMeet Yuri Zipit.A boy who's had a bang ...

Paperback , 271 pages Published 1994 by Puffin Books (first published May 1906)

When a dwarf comes into the office and leaves a package, Tim Diamond, the world's worst private dick, is faced with his toughest case yet. The offi...

Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, this work explores with humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep So...

Eat, Pray, Love A Celebrated Writer Pens An Irresistible, Candid, And Eloquent Account Of Her Pursuit Of Worldly Pleasure, Spiritual Devotion, And ...

Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each others sentence...

The story of Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre-Dame cathedral and his devotion to the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda. When the demente...

Enthralled By His Own Exquisite Portrait, Dorian Gray Exchanges His Soul For Eternal Youth And Beauty. Influenced By His Friend Lord Henry Wotton, ...

A Page-turning Novel Of Desire And Broken Dreams From The Internationally Bestselling Author Of The Other Side Of Midnight And If Tomorrow Comes. T...

Set on a farm in rural Devon, Farm Boy is a collection of Grandpas reminiscences and stories touchingly told to his grandson. Superbly told by a ma...

A stunning novel of World War 1. It is so absorbing and atmospheric that you will want to keep reading to the end. Told through the voice of a youn...

I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction. So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (185...

What Might Be Done To Human Beings By The Otherwhether The Other Be Vampires, Demons Or Creatures From Outer Spaceis Always In Competition For Abso...

Lou Clark Knows How Many Miles Lie Between Her New Home In New York And Her New Boyfriend Sam In London.She Knows Her Employer Is A Good Man And Sh...

The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered - fractured by violence and scarred by loss. So when offered a chance to ex...

When Fun-loving, Eighteen-stone Eileen Gillmoss Announces That She's Expecting A Baby, Her Husband Bill Thinks It's Another One Of Her Jokes. After...

“Without this child, we shall all die.” Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. T...

On Friday, May 11, 2001, the world mourned the untimely passing of Douglas Adams, beloved creator of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, dead of a...

Beginning with a short story appearing in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1978, the publication of Stephen King's epic work of fanta...