The Promise: Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize - (HB) by Damon Galgut
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Category: General
Discover the Booker Prize longlisted literary masterpiece of a family in crisis.'Astonishing' Colm TóibínThe Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The Swarts are gathering for Ma's funeral. The younger generation, Anton and Amor, detest eve ...Show more
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Collector's Edition) by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
Containing a fascinating variety of stories, from narratives by Holmes himself to a meeting with his brilliant brother and the climactic and seemingly fatal meeting between Holmes and the criminal mastermind Moriarity, this volume sealed Holmes' immortality as a literary figure. About the Series: F ...Show more
The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
This fine novel sets in opposition two of Thomas Hardy's most unforgettable creations: his heroine, the sensuous, free-spirited Eustacia Vye, and the solemn, majestic stretch of upland in Dorsetshire he called Egdon Heath. The famous opening reveals the haunting power of that dark, forbidding moon where ...Show more
The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: General | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare
'I saw the strangest sight tonight.' New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up - light as a star - and decides to take her home. London. England. After the financial crash. Leo Kaiser knows how to make money but he doesn't know how to manage ...Show more
Now is the Time by Melvyn Bragg
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Category: General
At the end of May 1381, the fourteen-year-old King of England had reason to be fearful: the plague had returned, the royal coffers were empty and a draconian Poll Tax was being widely evaded. Yet Richard, bolstered by his powerful, admired mother, felt secure in his God-given right to reign. Within two ...Show more
The Things We Keep by Sally Hepworth
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Category: General
A novel of love undaunted by obstacles, from the bestselling author of The Secrets of Midwives.Rosalind House might not be the first place you'd expect to find new love and renewal, but within the walls of this assisted living facility two women have their lives changed forever.Anna Forster, in the earl ...Show more
Wolf of the Plains (#1 Conqueror) by Conn Iggulden
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Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Conqueror Ser. | Reading Level: good
The first book in the bestselling Conqueror series featuring Genghis Khan and his descendants. 'I am the land and the bones of the hills. I am the winter.' Temujin, the second son of the khan of the Wolves tribe, was only eleven when his father died in an ambush.His family were thrown out of the tribe a ...Show more
Candide and Other Works by Voltaire
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by James Fowler, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Kent Voltaire is one of the three greatest French writers of the eighteenth century. He fought against religious persecution, bigotry and injustice throughout his life, and is one of the thinkers who prepared the ...Show more
Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by A. M. de Medeiros, University of Kent at Canterbury. A year after the publication of The Three Musketeers, /em>, Alexandre Dumas produced a sequel worthy in every respect of the original. In Twenty Years After the much beloved D'Artaganan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis reunite to ...Show more
The People In The Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
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Category: General
In 1950, a young doctor called Norton Perina signs on with the anthropologist Paul Tallent for an expedition to the remote Micronesian island of Ivu'ivu in search of a rumoured lost tribe. They succeed, finding not only that tribe but also a group of forest dwellers they dub 'The Dreamers', who turn out ...Show more
2666 by Roberto Bolano
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNERNew York Times Book Review "10 Best Books of 2008 """Time "Magazine's"" Best Book of 2008 "Los Angeles Times "Best Books of 2008 """San Francisco Chronicle'"s 50 Best Fiction Books of 2008 """Seattle Times "Best Books of 2008 """New York Magazine "Top Ten Books ...Show more
Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
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Category: General | Reading Level: very good
A richly mythic, colour-saturated tale from the Man Booker-shortlisted author of Swimming Home - Deborah Levy explores the violently primal bond between mother and daughter. Today I dropped my laptop on the concrete floor. It was tucked under my arm and slid out of its black rubber sheath, landing scree ...Show more