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The great fire
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Shirley Hazzard |
In war-torn Asia and stricken Europe, men and women, still young but veterans of harsh experience, must reinvent their lives and expectations, and learn from their past, to dream again. Some will ful… |
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David Copperfield
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Charles Dickens |
David Copperfield is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens. The novel's full title is The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rooke… |
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Life with Jeeves
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P. G. Wodehouse |
556 p. ; 20 cm |
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The Rapstone chronicles
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John Mortimer |
xv, 685 p. ; 20 cm |
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Stardust
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Neil Gaiman |
E-book extra: Neil Gaiman's "Writing and the Imagination."In the tranquil fields and meadows of long-ago England, there is a small hamlet that has stood on a jut of granite for 600 years. Just to the… |
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The Woman in White
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Wilkie Collins |
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intri… |
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A Long Day in Lychford (Witches of Lychford)
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Paul Cornell |
125 pages ; 21 cm |
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The Book of Lies
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Teri Terry |
"Twin teen girls with very different upbringings meet for the first time at their mother's funeral. As they get to know each other, it becomes clear that one of the sisters is driven by a secret dest… |
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The Royal Rabbits of London
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Santa Montefiore |
When shy, quiet Shylo overhears the plan of a band of ratzis to embarrass the Queen, he must travel to Buckingham Palace and convince the Royal Rabbits of London to stop them. |
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Miraculous mysteries
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Martin Edwards |
Impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction. Fiendishly intricate cases were particularly well suited to the cerebral type of detective … |
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Bones under the beach hut
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Simon Brett |
The affluent seaside resort of Smalting is unaccustomed to crime. So when human remains are found beneath the floorboards of one of its beach huts, the community is awash with suspicion and fear. |
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Lost Girls
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Angela Marsons |
469 pages ; 20 cm |
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Grey Mask
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Patricia Wentworth |
328 pages ; 21 cm |
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Dead giveaway
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Simon Brett |
176 p. ; 21 cm |
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A reconstructed corpse
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Simon Brett,Bill Nighy |
189 p. ; 25 cm |
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The witness at the wedding
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Simon Brett |
329 p. ; 21 cm |
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Brideshead Revisited
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Evelyn Waugh |
The most nostalgic and reflective of Evelyn Waugh's novels, *Brideshead Revisited* looks back to the golden age before the Second World War. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the… |
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Wild Robert
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Diana Wynne Jones |
Heather's parents are the caretakers of the stately home Castlemaine, and Heather would love living there -- if it weren't for the tourists. Every summer they invade Castlemaine, and one day they eve… |
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The Wisdom of Father Brown
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
"And the young woman of the house," asked Dr. Hood, with huge and silent amusement, "what does she want?" "Why, she wants to marry him," cried Father Brown, sitting up eagerly. "That is just the awfu… |
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The Railway Children
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Edith Nesbit |
When Father mysteriously goes away, the children and their mother leave their happy life in London to go and live in a small cottage in the country. 'The Three Chimneys' lies beside a railway track -… |
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