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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Mysterious and Macabre
by Various Authors 		from £14.99
Open a Pandora's box of scary tales guaranteed to give you a shiver down the spine. Remember, if you listen late at night, check under the bed before retiring! From the pens of various authors, the stories in this collection are: 'THE MEZZOTINT' by M.R. James 'THE ALUMINIUM DAGGER' by ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Game, Set and Match
by Various Authors 		from £14.99
A collection of love stories from around the world read by Jacqueline Quella, Andrew Hawkins and Peter Joyce. The stories in this collection include: 1. ‘The Jilting of Jane’, by H. G. Wells. 2. ‘The Necklace’, by Guy de Maupassant. 3. ‘The Rocking Horse Winner’, by D. H. La ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title The Monkey's Paw
by W. W. Jacobs 		from £14.99
A collection of short stories by W W Jacobs. Serpents, skinflints, skivers, suitors and sundry sailors take the foreground in these stories about the East End of London and the mythical village of Claybury at the turn of the century. Stories: The Third String, A Mixed P ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Ups and Downs
by Stacy Aumonier 		from £17.99
"Stacy Aumonier was profoundly in love with life, and impregnated through and through by curiosity about life and its manifestations. All types were fish to his net; and he has given us the fruits of his passion for existence with a deft and always interesting fidelity. He is never heavy, never boring, never really trivial ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Between Rounds
by O. Henry 		from £14.99
O.Henry was the greatest short story writer of his day. His characters may be from America at the turn of the century but their foibles and eccentricities are known to us all, irrespective of culture or time. This selection includes such classics as: A Service of Love, Makes The Whole World Kin, Let Me ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Stories From The States
by Various Authors 		from £14.99
American history overflows with good yarns. The many cultures which emigrated to the USA in the 19th Century provided a broad fertile experience on which the short story writer could draw. The authors contained in this collection were masters of the craft. The stories in the order they appear are: 'Ti ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Maupassant Magic
by Guy de Maupassant 		from £7.99
Possessed of a voracious sexual appetite, bitter and frequently disillusioned by the history of his country and the foibles of its people is not a description that does justice to the tortured soul that was Guy de Maupassant. He was also a compassionate and deeply patriotic man, volunteering to fight ... more on this title.
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Image of book cover. Click to find out more about this title Lawrence Loves
by D. H. Lawrence 		from £7.99
David Herbert Lawrence was born into a mining family in Nottinghamshire in 1885. He created his finest work shortly after the finish of the First World War. Two of the themes in his writing are the gradual disintegration of the class system and the customs and sexual mores of people across cla ... more on this title.
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