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It is the summer of 1921 and eight year old Lucy Gault stays Close to the glens and Woods above Lahardane - The much loved house that her family is...

Carolyn Keene and Franklin W. Dixon are the pseudonyms under which many ghostwriters penned the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys series, respectively. Bot...

As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him... and that's just the people on his s...

Lady Chatterley's Lover has been notorious since it was written. Banned for 30 years it was published unexpurgated, by Penguin Books in 1960 and im...

When Querry, a world-famous architect, finds he no longer enjoys life or takes pleasure in art he sets off on a voyage. Arriving anonymously at a l...

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

Smollett's lively rendition of Cervantes's epic burlesque attempts to catch the feeling and tone of the Spanish original - a comic novelist's homag...

After Mario Puzo wrote his internationally acclaimed The Godfather, he has often been imitated but never equaled. Puzos classic novel, The Sicilian...

The year is 1946, and all over the world young women are crossing the seas in their thousands en route to the men they married in wartime, and an u...

It is a time of political unrest in Great Britain. And behind the Iron Curtain an insidious plot is being hatched, a plan so incendiary that even t...

I am never too busy to think of S & S. I can no more forget it than a mother can forget her sucking child. So wrote Jane Austen to her sister i...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's THE SCARLET LETTER reaches to our nation's historical and moral roots for the material of great tragedy. Set in an early New ...

DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST. --The Washington Post Book World Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to ...

The Clifton Chronicles Is Jeffrey Archer’s Most Ambitious Work In Four Decades As An International Bestselling Author. The Epic Tale Of Harry Clift...

As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him... and that's just the people on his s...

A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves...

t is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' Thus memorably begins Jane Aus...

Who is the real Margo?Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she crack...

The New Penguin Shakespeare Offers A Complete Edition Of The Plays And Poems. Each Volume Hs Been Newly Prepared From The Original Texts And Includ...

Veronika has everything she could wish for - young and pretty, with plenty of attractive boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet Veronika is...

In A Hidden Corner Of London, Henri Lachapelle Is Teaching His Granddaughter And Her Horse To Defy Gravity, Just As He Had Done In France, Fifty Ye...

This Was A Man Opens With A Shot Being Fired, But Who Pulled The Trigger, And Who Lives And Who Dies In Whitehall, Giles Barrington Discovers The T...

Middlemarch (1871-2) is perhaps the masterpiece of a writer who is now recognized as a major literary figure of the nineteenth century. Virginia Wo...

Dorothea Brooke can find no acceptable outlet for her talents or energy and few who share her ideals. As an upper middle-class woman in Victorian E...