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  • Through the Looking-Glass
    Part of The Macmillan Alice range, celebrating the 160th anniversary of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with new editions of the classic books, plus The Complete Alice, The Macmillan Alice Pack of Cards, and The Nursery Alice. Join Alice on her second adventure as she heads through the looking-glass to a place even curiouser than Wonderland. It isn't as easy as...
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  • Animal Farm And 1984
    This edition features George Orwell's best-known novels – 1984 and Animal Farm – with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you, and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together...
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  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
    A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's dark work of genius with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories is a profound exploration of identity and morality. Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity, developing a drug that separates the two sides...
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  • The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland
    HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. β€˜There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will’ Hailed as one of the most distinctive and compelling literary voices of her era, Charlotte Perkins Gilman is praised today for her ground-breaking, feminist writing. Collected here, both The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland...
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  • The Letter
    Will its words uncover a dark family secret? Readers love Josephine Cox! β€˜Loved the story and the characters’ β€˜Family secrets hidden away for years. I really loved this story’ β€˜I was hooked from start to finish’ β€˜This one goes to the top of my list … a five star read’ Another gripping and dramatic family drama from the Sunday Times...
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  • The Game Is Murder
    The Game Is Murder by Hazell Ward offers an intriguing challenge: Thirteen guests. Thirteen suspects. But only one is the murderer, and only you can solve the mystery... Introducing the most original murder mystery of 2025! You are invited to a very special murder mystery party. Thirteen guests have been gatheredβ€”rather, thirteen suspects. Only one of them is a murderer....
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  • Grave of the Fireflies
    The heartbreaking story of two orphans fighting for survival at the end of World War Two, published in English for the first time. In the dying days of the War, Seita and Setsuko must fend for themselves. Firebombs have obliterated their home in Kobe, leaving them searching for shelter and scrambling to survive in the depths of the countryside. But,...
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  • Bliss
    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics - irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Katherine Mansfield's perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives. Graceful, delicate and burning with emotion, Mansfield's stories were integral...
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  • Big Blonde
    Introducing Little Clothbound Classics – irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Dorothy Parker was the most talked-about woman of the decadent 1920s, notorious as a hard-drinking bad girl with a talent for endlessly quotable one-liners. In the stories collected here, she brilliantly captures the spirit of...
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  • Three Japanese Short Stories
    Fifty new books at Β£1 each, celebrating the pioneering spirit of the Penguin Modern Classics series, from inspiring essays to groundbreaking fiction and poetry. Oh the cruelty of time, that destroys all things! Beguiling, strange and hair-raising tales from early 20th century Japanβ€”Nagai's Behind the Prison, Uno's Closet LLB and Akutagawa's deeply macabre General Kim.
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  • Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    Ever since its first appearance in 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde has proven itself to be a tale of undiminished power for readers all over the world. But the story of the respectable Dr Jekyll, even in a London setting, has links that stretch back to the narrow wynds of Edinburgh and the...
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  • The Inferno
    Journey into Dante's nine circles of Hell in the epic poem, Inferno, with this elegant, unabridged edition featuring the classic translation by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). The Divine Comedy, written in the early fourteenth century by Dante Alighieri, continues to be essential reading for lovers of literature. The Inferno is the first part of Dante's masterpiece, The Divine...
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  • The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft
    The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft collects the author's novel, four novellas, and fifty-three short stories. Written between the years 1917 and 1935, this collection features Lovecraft's trademark fantastical creatures and supernatural thrills, as well as many horrific and cautionary science-fiction themes that have influenced some of today's writers and filmmakers, including Stephen King, Alan Moore, F. Paul Wilson,...
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  • Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories
    A unique new selection, bringing together Akutagawa's undisputed masterpieces and several less well-known tales, never before translated into English. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylistsβ€”a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. Rashomon and In a Bamboo Grove inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which...
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  • The Hound of the Baskervilles
    Beautifully designed, clothbound edition Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body β€” this classic horror story pits detective against...
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  • I am David
    You must get away tonight, the man had told him. David escapes from the concentration camp where he has spent his entire life and flees across Europe. He is utterly alone – who can he trust? What will await him? And all the while, how can he be sure that they won’t catch up with him... This is the remarkable...
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  • Closed Casket
    Hercule Poirot returns in another brilliant murder mystery that can only be solved by the eponymous Belgian detective and his β€˜little grey cells’. β€˜What I intend to say to you will come as a shock . . .’ Lady Athelinda Playford has planned a house party at her mansion in Clonakilty, County Cork, but it is no ordinary gathering. As...
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  • The Warden
    The tranquil atmosphere of the cathedral town of Barchester is shattered when a scandal breaks concerning the financial affairs of a Church-run almshouse for elderly men. In the ensuing furore, Septimus Harding, the almshouse's well-meaning warden, finds himself pitted against his daughter's suitor, Dr John Bold, a zealous local reformer. Matters are not improved when Harding's abrasive son-in-law, Archdeacon Grantly,...
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  • The Scarlet Pimpernel
    Twenty new titles in the much-loved and hugely successful Penguin English Library series. Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger. The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they can be executed. Showing great daring...
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  • The Ambassadors
    Part of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous novels and short stories. When Chadwick Newsome, a young American favoured with fortune and independence, becomes entangled in a liaison dangereux with a Parisian temptress, his overbearing mother deploys her future husband, the elderly, amiable Strether, as an ambassador to engineer his safe return. But seduced by the...
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  • Shirley
    A new edition of the least well-known of Charlotte BrontΓ«'s novels, but one of the most fascinating, for its engagement with the 'woman question' and the vivid depiction of Yorkshire during the Napoleonic Wars. Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour-saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert considers marriage to...
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  • Pygmalion
    HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw’s classic play and satire of the British class system, was first performed in 1913.
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  • Nicholas Nickleby
    Nicholas Nickleby is relaunched as part of Penguin Classics, showcasing the work of a young novelist at the height of his powers. This book is truly one of the touchstones of the English comic novel. At the heart of the story is Nicholas Nickleby and the misfortunes of his family, around which Dickens created a cast of some of his...
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  • Just So Stories
    Among Kipling's most loved works, the Just So Stories have been continually in print since 1902. A relentlessly inventive collection of myths that betray a deep love and respect for the natural world, the Penguin Classics edition of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories is edited with an introduction by Judith Plotz and a general preface by series editor Jan Montefiore....
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  • Gulliver's Travels
    Swift's brilliant and satirical classic, in a gorgeous new clothbound edition. Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little...
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  • Winnie the Pooh
    Age range 6+ A fully revitalised edition of the 1926 classic, featuring full-colour versions of the original illustrations by E.H. Shepherd. Winnie the Pooh has enchanted readers of all ages for nearly one hundred years with its relatable, heart-warming adventures that follow the famously friendly and lovable teddy bear. In this classic collection, Winnie navigates the Hundred Acre Wood with...
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  • Three Act Tragedy
    At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die… Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor’s house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died. But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis, there was no trace...
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  • Persuasion (Barnes & Noble Collectible Classics: Flexi Edition)
    Eight years ago, Anne Elliot broke off her engagement to the dashing young naval officer Frederick Wentworth on the advice of a friend. Now twenty-seven and considered a faded beauty, she is resigned to a spinster's life when she learns that Wentworth, now a captain and wealthy with prize money from the Napoleonic Wars, has returned. While Anne visits her...
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  • Peril at End House
    Car brakes failA boulder missesAccidents? Or not? On holiday in Cornwall, Poirot meets a pretty young woman with an unusual name, β€˜Nick’ Buckley. Upon discovering a bullet-hole in Nick’s sun hat, the great detective decides the girl needs his protection. He also begins to unravel the mystery of a murder that hasn’t been committed. Yet. Peril at End House is...
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  • Mrs McGinty’s Dead
    An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage… Mrs McGinty’s dead!β€˜How did she die?β€™β€˜Down on one knee, just like I!’ The old children’s game now seemed rather tasteless. The real Mrs McGinty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head and her pitifully small savings were stolen. Suspicion falls immediately on her...
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  • Lord Edgware Dies
    Agatha Christie’s famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Poirot had been present when Jane bragged of her plan to β€˜get rid of’ her estranged husband. Now the monstrous man was dead. And yet the great Belgian detective couldn’t help feeling that he was...
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  • The Call of the Wild
    The Call of the Wild tells the story of a domesticated dog called Buck, stolen from his easy life and propelled into the world of the Klondike Gold Rush. Buck begins to hear the call of the wild as his hard journey continues. The book's compact format and rich colour illustrations make it a must-have for your own bookshelf and...
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  • The Seducer’s Diary
    90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books What does love fear? Limitation. Johannes stealthily pursues Cordelia through the streets of Copenhagen, and through an intricate, manipulative courtship contrives to possess her. Motivated not by love or sex but by sensation and experiment, he seeks to make the object of his desire desire him - and then to retreat....
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  • Alone in Berlin
    A truly great book ... an utterly gripping thriller β€” Justin Cartwright, Sunday Telegraph Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in their different ways: the bullying Hitler loyalists, the Persickes; the retired judge, Fromm; and the unassuming couple, Otto and Anna...
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  • Peter Rabbit: Easter Fun
    Join Peter, Flopsy, Mopsy and Cotton-tail in their adventure to find the best hiding places for their special Easter egg hunt! It's Easter, and Peter and his sisters are hiding Easter eggs for all their forest friends to find. Can you lift-the-flaps and help them find the perfect hiding spots? Perfect for busy little bunnies everywhere, follow Peter and his...
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  • The Butterfly Lion
    A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion, from a master storyteller. β€˜Will touch all hearts – both young and old’ – Virginia McKenna, Born Free Foundation When Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld, the pair are inseparable – until Bertie is...
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  • The ABC Murders
    Agatha Christie's world-famous serial killer mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. There's a serial killer on the loose, bent on working his way through the alphabet. As a macabre calling card, he leaves beside each victim’s corpse the ABC Railway Guide open at the name...
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  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    'One of the greatest achievements in comedy. A work of staggering genius' - David Walliams An international phenomenon and pop-culture classic, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has been a radio show, TV series, novel, stage play, comic book, and film. Following the galactic (mis)adventures of Arthur Dent, Hitchhiker's in its various incarnations has captured the imaginations of curious minds...
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  • Animal Adventure Stories
    Meet the cat who went to see the Queen, the bird who loves shiny things, and the horse that turned into a pig. This collection of short stories by Enid Blyton is filled with exciting animals ready for adventure! Will you join them? These traditional tales are ideal for younger children being read to and for newly confident readers to...
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  • The Twits
    Roald Dahl's canon of family stories and poetry comes with collectable new covers featuring Quentin Blake's iconic illustrations and archive material provided by the Roald Dahl Museum. Mr Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever. This beautiful edition of The Twits, part of The...
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  • David Copperfield
    This is the novel Dickens regarded as his favourite child and is considered his most autobiographical. As David recounts his experience from childhood to the discovery of his vocation as a successful novelist, Dickens draws openly and revealingly on his own life. Among the gloriously vivid cast of characters are Rosa Dartle, Dora, Steerforth, and the 'umble Uriah Heep, along...
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  • The Heart Of A Dog
    A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOV A rich, successful Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and attempts a scientific first by transplanting into it the testicles and pituitary gland of a recently deceased man. A distinctly worryingly human animal is...
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  • The Two Towers
    The Two Towers is the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings. Impossible to describe in a few words, J.R.R. Tolkien's great work of imaginative fiction has been labelled both a heroic romance and a classic fantasy fiction. By turns comic and homely, epic and diabolic, the narrative moves through countless changes of scene and...
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  • Light in August
    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central themeβ€”the nature of evil. Joe Christmasβ€” a man doomed, deracinated and aloneβ€”wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted, God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob....
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  • The Enchanted April
    Funny, irreverent and full of joy, this is the perfect book to accompany you on holiday β€” a celebration of escaping the everyday. With an introduction by Brenda Bowen Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a drab and rainy London one April and arriving on...
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  • The Lemonade War Graphic Novel
    The first book in the beloved Lemonade War seriesβ€”a clever blend of humour, maths wizardry, and business know-howβ€”is now available in a full-colour graphic novel. Evan Treski is people smart. He’s good at talking to people, even grown-ups. His younger sister, Jessie, on the other hand, is maths smartβ€”but not especially good at understanding people. She knows that feelings are...
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    The Burial Place
    This series is irresistible β€” LEE CHILD An immersive, intelligent delight β€” LUCY FOLEY The Jake Jackson books get better and better β€” ELLY GRIFFITHS Highly recommend β€” KARIN SLAUGHTER A pleasure β€” BERNARD CORNWELL A beautiful landscape… It began as the project of a lifetime – a group of archaeologists, uncovering the remains of a Roman settlement on a...
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  • The Magician’s Nephew
    The Adventure Begins. A beautiful paperback edition of The Magician's Nephew, book one in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them....
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  • Burmese Days
    With a new introduction by Emma Larkin Set in the days of the Empire, with the British ruling in Burma, Burmese Days describes both indigenous corruption and Imperial bigotry, when 'after all, natives were natives - interesting, no doubt, but finally only a "subject" people, an inferior people with black faces'. Against the prevailing orthodoxy, Flory, a white timber merchant,...
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  • Matilda
    46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Matilda by Mary Shelley is a compelling and haunting tale of forbidden emotions and tragic destinies. "I gained his secret and we were both lost for ever." This evocative narrative follows the tumultuous life of Matilda, delving into themes of isolation...
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  • The Enchanted April
    A funny and charming novel about four women in Italy, introduced by Salley Vickers. A notice in The Times addressed to 'Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April'. Four very different women take up the offer, escaping dreary London for...
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  • Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
    Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal tale of personality and evil, now in a wonderful new clothbound edition. Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with damnable young man Edward Hyde, the hunt through fog-bound London for a killer, and the...
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  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    This beautifully designed, clothbound edition is part of Penguin's hardback Clothbound Classics series, crafted by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. These delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton,...
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  • Frankenstein (Painted Editions)
    Frankenstein, the frightening classic tale, is now available in an affordable softcover edition. It features striking hand-painted cover art from Laci Fowler and distinctive interior design elements, making it ideal for classic fiction lovers, readers in high-school or college literature courses, and fans of annual reading challenges and "Required Reading" lists. Beloved by horror fans across the globe, Frankenstein explores...
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  • Dead Man's List
    Pre-order the brand new novel in The San Diego Case Files series from Sunday Times bestseller Karen Rose High wire suspense that keeps you riveted - Lisa Gardner When homicide Detective Kit McKittrick and psychologist Sam Reeves discover a mutilated body in the desert outside San Diego, any number of people could be on their suspect list. The murder victim,...
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  • The Neverending Story
    Discover our collectable Puffin Clothbound Classic edition of The Neverending Story. Puffin Clothbound Classics are stunning collectable hardback editions of some of the best-loved classics in the world – including this highly anticipated 45th anniversary edition of The Neverending Story. "Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do."...
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  • Cities of the Plain
    In Cities of the Plain, the concluding volume of Cormac McCarthy's acclaimed Border Trilogy, two men grapple with a vanishing way of life amidst a rapidly changing world. John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, whose stories began in All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing, now find themselves facing the tumultuous currents of the 1950s American Southwest. Bound by their...
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  • Eichmann in Jerusalem
    Eichmann in Jerusalem by Hannah Arendt is a profound and thought-provoking examination of the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a high-ranking Nazi official responsible for orchestrating the logistics of the Holocaust. Tasked with ensuring the efficient deportation of millions of Jews to extermination camps, Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem became a pivotal moment in the global understanding of one of history's darkest...
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  • Society Must Be Defended
    Society Must Be Defended by Michel Foucault is a compelling examination of power structures within civilisation, delivered through a series of influential lectures at the Collège de France in 1975-76. Foucault utilizes the paradigm of war to dissect and scrutinise power relations, proposing the provocative thesis that politics is essentially an extension of violence prevalent on the battlefield. Through his...
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  • The Last Battle (Hardback)
    A beautiful hardback edition of The Last Battle, book seven in the classic series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and colour interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. The Last Battle takes readers to a Narnia where all is not as it seems. Deception and treachery have penetrated the heart of the land, and...
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  • Treasure Island
    Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson is an enthralling tale of adventure, treasure, and piracy that has captivated readers for generations. The story centres around young Jim Hawkins who, after discovering a treasure map, embarks on a perilous journey to the mysterious Treasure Island. Alongside him are a colourful cast of characters including the enigmatic Long John Silver and a...
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  • The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects
    Immerse yourself in the vibrant world of the Italian Renaissance with Giorgio Vasari's seminal work, The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Often hailed as the first art historian, Vasari offers readers an unparalleled look at the artistic achievements that defined an era. This masterful collection of artist biographies transports you from the humble beginnings of the...
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  • The Silmarillion
    The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien is a magnificent precursor to The Lord of the Rings, offering readers a richly detailed account of the earlier ages of Middle-earth. This enchanting narrative spans from the creation of the world through the tumultuous events of the First and Second Ages, concluding with the setting up of the Third Age, where the stories of...
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  • Crime and Punishment
    Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a profound exploration of guilt, redemption, and the human psyche. Set in the grimy streets of St Petersburg, the novel centres on Rodion Raskolnikov, a struggling and impoverished former student whose growing desperation leads him to commit a heinous act. Raskolnikov's journey is a labyrinth of moral dilemmas and harrowing decisions, where he...
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  • Villette
    With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul...
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  • Jane Austen: The Complete Works
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    Part of the elegant Knickerbocker Classics series, The Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four full-length novels and 56 short stories featuring the world's most famous pipe-smoking detective. For Sherlock Holmes fans worldwide, this stunning hardcover edition is perfect for gift giving. Written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle between the years 1867 and 1927, the legendary Sherlock Holmes employed his mastery of...
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  • The Odyssey: Deluxe Painted Edition
    The greatest of all epics, soon to be a major motion picture directed by Christopher Nolan. Every book lover knows there are certain stories that transcend time, and Homer's The Odyssey stands tall among literature's greatest treasures. This isn't just another ancient epic gathering dust on your shelfβ€”it's a masterfully crafted adventure that speaks to the wanderer in all of...
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  • The Wall
    The Wall is a cult classic, the ultimate work of sustained dreadβ€”a story of a woman trapped alone in the forest. A woman's weekend away in the Austrian mountains takes an inexplicable and sinister turn, becoming a fight for survival. During her holiday in the Austrian mountains, a woman spends a few days with her cousin and his wife at...
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  • The Brothers Karamazov
    When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov....
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  • The Arabian Nights (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
    The Arabian Nights is your magic carpet ride to exotic lands full of wonders and marvels. First collected nearly a thousand years ago, these folktales are presented as stories that crafty Scheherazade tells her husband, King Shahryar, over a thousand-and-one consecutive nights, to pique his interest for the next evening's entertainment and thereby save her life. Among them are some...
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  • How Green Was My Valley
    Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales, Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons. Looking back, where difficult days are faced with courage and the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices, it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory. How Green Was My Valley explores themes of...
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  • The Dispossessed
    One of the very best must-read novels of all time - with a new introduction by Roddy Doyle 'A well told tale signifying a good deal; one to be read again and again' THE TIMES 'The book I wish I had written ... It's so far away from my own imagination, I'd love to sit at my desk one day...
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  • The Brothers Karamazov
    From the award-winning translators of Crime and Punishment, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov and his three sonsβ€”the impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events...
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  • Slaughterhouse 5
    This series of war novels from Vintage Classics presents eight powerful stories about the horror and waste of warβ€”each a passionate plea to prevent its repetition. Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published. Billy Pilgrimβ€”hapless barber's assistant, successful optometrist, alien abductee, senile widower, and soldierβ€”has become unstuck in time. Hiding in...
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  • The Golden Notebook
    Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience – classics which will endure for generations to come. In 1950s London, novelist Anna Wulf struggles with writer’s block. Divorced with a young child, and fearful of going mad, Anna records her experiences in four...
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  • Frankenstein
    Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. Mary Shelley's chilling gothic tale was conceived when she was only eighteen, living...
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  • Luna Lovegood
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  • The Silmarillion
    Limited to a worldwide first printing of just 4,000 copies, this deluxe edition is printed in two colours and is fully bound in cloth and stamped in gold foil. Housed in a matching custom-built slipcase decorated with stunning wraparound artwork, it also features two full-colour removable posters that are unique to this edition. The Silmarillion is the core of J.R.R....
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