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Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
In the totalitarian superstate of Oceania, life is a war that never ends. History is a lie that is rewritten every day. And love is a thoughtcrime, punishable by...
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Cactus
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2026-03-18
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He gave us the language to describe our nightmares: Big Brother, doublethink, Room 101. But George Orwell was more than the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
This definitive collection brings together his six complete novels, revealing the full scope of his genius. It is...
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Cactus
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2026-03-18
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In the searing heat of 1920s Upper Burma, the waning days of the British Empire cast long, distorted shadows. For the Englishmen of Kyauktada, existence is a stifling routine of whiskey, boredom, and the relentless, casual bigotry that upholds their fragile world. At...
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Cactus
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2026-03-18
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No Evidence is a short detective story by Alice Campbell. The plot focuses on a mysterious crime in which there seems to be no proof of what really happened. The police suspect that something illegal has occurred, but they cannot find any witnesses or physical...
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Fanela Publishing
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2026-03-18
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The animals of Manor Farm have a dream. They dream of a world where man is overthrown, where they work for themselves and keep the fruits of their own labour. When they rise up and chase away their human master, that dream seems within reach. They create the Seven...
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Cactus
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2026-03-18
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Money. He hates it. He despises it. He dreams of smashing the whole corrupt system that puts a price on art, on love, on the human soul. And so Gordon Comstock, struggling poet and proud rebel, has declared war on the modern world. He has traded respectability for...
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Cactus
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2026-03-18
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Dorothy Hare is the dutiful, overworked daughter of the Rector of Knype Hill. Her days are a ceaseless round of parish duties, dodging her father's creditors, and suppressing any thought of a life beyond the rigid walls of the rectory. Her only escape, however fleeting,...
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Cactus
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2026-03-18
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The bomb is coming. George Bowling, a middle-aged insurance salesman with a comfortable home in the suburbs, a nagging wife, and two ungrateful children, can feel it in his bones. It isn't just the war that is on the horizon—it is the end of an entire world. Stifled by...
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Cactus
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2026-03-18
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“The Links in the Chain” (1948) is a detective novel by John Rhode (Miles Burton), featuring his recurring character Lancelot Priestley, focusing on the intellectual, deductive puzzle typical of Golden Age mysteries.
We begin with the death of Mrs. Fransham in her...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-03-17
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First published in the US in 1947.
In this collection, Perelman puzzles over the nature of the secret chocolate blend in Hostess Cupcakes, captures the excesses of Russian prose style in a story about cigarettes, and ponders the question of our time: poisonous...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-03-16
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Kommissar Jörgensen und die Wasserleiche
Lorenzo D'Alessi, Kriminalhauptkommissar in Hamburg, wurde als verdeckter Ermittler unter dem Namen Matteo Asconti in die kalabrischen Asconti-Familie in Hamburg eingeschleust. Nun hat man ihn aus einem stillgelegten Hafenbecken...
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Bathranor Books
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2026-03-16
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''Return from the Dead'' (1959) by Miles Burton (John Rhode) features his regular investigators, Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard and amateur sleuth Desmond Merrion. The mystery centers on the unfolding story of unexplained disappearances in South America, a valuable...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-03-14
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Welcome to the Bonavista Peninsula – where rugged cliffs meet quiet coves, old secrets fester beneath the surface, and someone is using forgotten root cellars as tombs.
When the body of a young woman is discovered sealed inside one of these dark, crumbling chambers,...
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Flanker Press
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2026-03-13
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''Death Takes a Flat'' (1940) by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is a classic British mystery where Major and Mrs. Pontefract discover the body of Edgar Staplehurst, a property manager, in a Kensington flat they are looking to rent. Inspector Arnold initially suspects a local...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2026-03-13
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Questa è la storia di una caduta. La storia di Gervaise Macquart, una giovane lavandaia arrivata a Parigi con i suoi due bambini e un sogno semplice: lavorare, avere un angolo di mondo tutto suo, crescere la figlia e morire nel suo letto, senza essere picchiata da...
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Cactus
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2026-03-13
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C'era una volta un giovane nobiluomo nell'Inghilterra elisabettiana. Amato da una regina, tradito da una principessa russa, amico di poeti e frequentatore di corti. Poi, una notte a Costantinopoli, accade l'impossibile: Orlando si sveglia donna. E vive per secoli,...
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Cactus
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2026-03-13
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C'era una volta, nella verde campagna inglese, un antico castello abitato da un fantasma. Un fantasma terribile, con tanto di catene arrugginite, macchie di sangue che ricompaiono e lugubri lamenti nella notte. Un fantasma, insomma, perfettamente conforme alle più...
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Cactus
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2026-03-13
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The Man Who Knew Too Much is a collection of detective stories by G. K. Chesterton.The book follows the adventures of Horne Fisher, a man who understands the hidden connections between politics, society, and crime. Because of his knowledge of powerful people and secret...
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Fanela Publishing
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2026-03-13
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“Kif: An Unvarnished History” is one of Josephine Tey’s earliest and most striking novels, written under her real name, Elizabeth MacKintosh. Unlike her later detective fiction, this powerful narrative is a raw psychological study of a young man’s downfall and fragile...
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Asimis Books
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2026-03-13
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The Classic Collection of Max Beerbohm by Max Beerbohm is an illustrated anthology that gathers the finest works of one of England’s most brilliant satirists and stylists. Blending fiction, parody, essays, and whimsical sketches, this volume showcases Beerbohm’s wit,...
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Asimis Books
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2026-03-12
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