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The Right Honourable Leslie Titmuss has clawed his way up the Tory government ranks and is now Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Ecological Affairs and Planning (H.E.A.P.), and in pursuit of beautiful widow Jenny Sidonia. But seismic changes are afoot in...
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Penguin
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2010-11-04
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A heartwarming and poignant tale of a lonely man brought back to life and faith. ...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-10-31
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'They sing in my head even now... What a wonderful storyteller/poet he was' Michael Morpurgo, GuardianHave you ever wondered how the leopard got his spots? Or how the camel got his hump? Rudyard Kipling's witty and beautifully written stories explain these secrets and...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-10-31
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This tender story of parents, children and step-children, mistakes and secrets was Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel and is considered her masterpiece. ...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-10-31
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A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a distinguished soldier and she is beautiful and intelligent. However, what lies beneath the...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-10-31
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‘What beauties the book contains! There are many pages in it so saturated with warm and lovely intimacies that one reads absorbed’ GuardianWomen in Love begins one blossoming spring day in England and ends with a terrible catastrophe in the snow of the Alps. Ursula and...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-10-31
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'One of the greatest love stories in world literature' Vladimir NabokovAnna is a beautiful, intelligent woman whose passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky leads her to ruin. But her story is also about a search for meaning, and by twinning it with that of...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-10-31
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The definitive translation of one of the greatest French novels of the twentieth centuryIn the opening volume of Proust's great novel, the narrator travels backwards in time in order to tell the story of a love affair that had taken place before his own birth. Swann's...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-10-31
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Discover George Eliot’s powerful tragedy about the struggle between head and heart.**As Heard on BBC Radio 4** Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both wilful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. As they grow up together on the banks of the...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-10-31
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'No summary can do this marvellous, rich and unforgettable novel anything like justice' Philip PullmanKim is an orphan who earns his living begging on the streets of Lahore. One day he befriends an aged Tibetan Lama who, although content to live simply in India, is a...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-30
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The classic boy-hero of American literature. ...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-09-30
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After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie - solitary, observant and wise beyond her years - is drawn into an increasingly...
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Penguin
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2010-08-26
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Bertha Ley comes of age, inherits her father's money and promptly marries a handsome, calm and unimaginative man.Bertha is wildly in love with Edward and believes she can be happy playing the role of a dutiful wife in their country home. But, intelligent and sensual,...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-08-03
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Read the masterful story of romance and revolution behind the hit BBC TV series.Les Misérables is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the street children, the prostitutes and the criminals. In telling the story of...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-07-06
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‘I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way’Discover the beloved story of sisters, love and society that launched Jane Austen’s career.Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-07-06
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'A masterpiece' The TimesAfter the tragic deaths of their parents, Magdalen and Norah discover the devastating news that they are both illegitimate and not entitled to any inheritance. Norah is forced to become a governess to earn her keep but Magdalen has grander plans...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-07-06
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The Gambler and Other Stories is Fyodor Dostoyevsky's collection of one novella and six short stories reflecting his own life - indeed, 'The Gambler', a story of a young tutor in the employment of a formerly wealthy Russian General, was written under a strict deadline...
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Penguin
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2010-07-01
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'A very modern story about aimless lives and messy marriages' Paul Theroux Caught in the...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-06-16
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'How delightful it would be to be a governess!'
When the young Agnes Grey takes up her first post as governess she is full of hope; she believes she only has to remember 'myself at their age' to win her pupils' love and trust. Instead she finds the young children she...
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OUP Oxford
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2010-06-10
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'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes become inextricably intertwined with...
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Vintage Digital
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2010-06-01
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