Mad World: Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
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The Return of the Native
Tempestuous Eustacia Vye passes her days dreaming of passionate love and the escape it may bring from the small community of Egdon Heath. Hearing that Clym Yeobright is to return from Paris, she sets …
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Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder
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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… -
My Father's House (Rome Escape Line Trilogy, #1)
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This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem - loneliness.…
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Joy in the Morning (Jeeves, #8)
Trapped in rural Steeple Bumpleigh, a man less stalwart than Bertie Wooster would probably give way at the knees, for among those present were Florence Craye, to whom Bertie had once been engaged; her…
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Something Fresh (Blandings Castle, #1)
One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impostors. Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice.
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Absolutely and Forever
A piercing short novel of thwarted love and true friendship from one of our greatest living writers
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Summer Lightning (Blandings Castle, #4)
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Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive beheadings, middle-management insurrection, uncivil wars, and more, from award-winning British actor and …
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Vanity Fair
A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her school…
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Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
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On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs. Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining da… -
Learned by Heart
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains drawn wide, is bright with starlight. They talk in whispers, not to disturb the maids who lie sleeping…
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Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond
The new book by Sunday Times bestselling author of Ancestors and Buried - the final instalment in Professor Alice Roberts' acclaimed trilogy. In her previous two bestsellers, Professor Alice Roberts p…
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The Driver's Seat
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The Seventh Son
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING
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When a young woman named Talissa answers an advert to carry a child, she cannot begin to imagine the consequences.
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Carson McCullers’ prodigious first novel was published to instant acclaim when she was just twenty-three. Set in a small town in the middle of the deep South, it is the story of John Singer, a lonely …
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