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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Sketches by Boz
by Charles Dickens 		from £25.99
Charles Dickens’ started his literary career as a journalist reporting for ‘The Morning Chronicle,’ a profession which encouraged his observing eye. This collection of essays and short stories was first published in that journal and anticipates, and frequently demonstrates, the genius that was to come. ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Mr Wray's Cash-box
by Wilkie Collins 		from £13.49
Mr. Reuben Wray, a retired actor who has had little public success, flees Stratford-upon-Avon fearing pursuit by the police. He arrives in Tidbury in the Marsh and sets up shop teaching elocution. Two local villains notice he carries a rather large cash box and attempt to steal the contents. When ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Prisoner of Zenda
by Anthony Hope 		from £18.49
The hugely successful romantic adventure story which continues to thrill a century after it was written. It has all the classic ingredients - a twisting plot of betrayal and deception, love interest, great swashbuckling action and a most beguiling villain in Rupert of Hentzau, who captured the publics imaginat ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Princess and the Goblin
by George MacDonald 		from £15.99
Revolutionary for the time in encouraging children to think like children, the adventure of Princess Irene and Curdie, the boy miner, was to influence generations of writers, including Chesterton and Tolkien. Overflowing with fantastic ideas and images to delight the young and allegory to inspire ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
by Robert L. Stevenson 		from £11.99
Dr Jekyll creates a potion whereby he can divide the good and evil parts of his personality and thus free the good side to work for the benefit of mankind without the distraction of his baser instincts. Unfortunately, he undertakes the experiment while the depraved side of his nature is in the ascendancy and t ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Greenmantle
by John Buchan 		from £24.99
The second of Richard Hannays’ adventures takes him from the trenches of the First World War on a mission of vital importance to the British campaign in the East. In an attempt to manipulate their Turkish allies the Germans have created a religious figurehead, a prophet of a new order to unify the disparate tr ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Europeans
by Henry James 		from £21.49
One of Henry James’ main themes was the interaction between the Old World and the New. Restless Baroness Eugenia Munster and her charming bohemian brother Felix are visiting their American cousins in Boston, New England. The effect these two extravagant characters have on their austere Puritan relations forms ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title John Halifax, Gentleman
by Dinah Craik 		from £39.49
The greatest romantic narrative novel of the early 19th Century, John Halifax, Gentleman, tells the story of an orphan boy whose first words in the story are “Sir, I want work; may I earn a penny.” By hard work, diligent study and an unshakeable faith in his God John attains wealth and happiness, despite much ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Riceyman Steps
by Arnold Bennett 		from £27.49
It’s 1919 shortly after the termination of the 1st European holocaust. Henry Earlforward, a middle aged North London Bookseller, courts and marries Violet Arb, a widow who has inherited the confectioners shop opposite his own premises in Riceyman Square. Henry and Violet engage the services of Elsie as ‘char ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Two on a Tower
by Thomas Hardy
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by Anthony Trollope
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by Arthur Morrison
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Trilby
by George Du Maurier
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
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by J. Meade Falkner
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
by Jerome K. Jerome
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by Arnold Bennett
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Card
by Arnold Bennett
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by O. Henry
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Washington Square
by Henry James
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