A Christmas carol
£25.00An exquisitely illustrated, luxury collector’s edition of Dickens’s Christmas tale.
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Four days’ wonder
£9.99Jenny Windell is obsessed with murder mysteries, so when she discovers her aunt dead at her country home, the stage is set for her own investigation. On the run, she befriends Derek Fenton, persuading him to join her in her attempts to solve the crime.
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Payment deferred
£9.99Marble, a bank clerk, is desperately short of money. Suddenly, and unexpectedly a rich nephew, of whose existence he knows nothing, comes to visit the seedy suburban house. This is the setting for C.S. Forester’s first novel.
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The big sleep
£9.99Raymond Chandler created the fast talking, trouble seeking Californian private eye Philip Marlowe for his first great novel ‘The Big Sleep’ in 1939. Marlowe’s entanglement with the Sternwood family – and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures – is the background to a story reflecting all the tarnished glitter of the great American Dream. The hard-boiled detective’s iconic image burns just as brightly in ‘Farewell My Lovely’, on the trail of a missing nightclub crooner.
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A book lover’s guide to the zodiac
£10.99If you love reading and you always check your horoscope, then this gorgeous little book is perfect for you.
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Two people
£9.99Happy with each other, Reginald and Sylvia think they just want the quiet life. But when success overtakes them, and the draw of the city, they find parts of themselves they never knew. Where does their happiness really lie?
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Alice in Wonderland – A Card and Trivia Game
£10.00Do you know your dormice from your dodo birds? Exactly how tall is the Caterpillar? What does the liquid in the bottle labelled ‘Drink Me’ taste of?Tumble down the rabbit hole and put your knowledge to the test with 52 trivia and game cards, each one featuring a multiple-choice trivia question, charade, game or challenge about the people and places of Lewis Carroll’s beloved classics.Illustrated with John Tenniel’s exquisite drawings of characters and scenes, the cards double as a game of Snap, Memory, Quartets or Swap, making this fun for all the family.Presented in a foiled gift box and with a booklet that contains the rules of play to four traditional card games, this is the perfect gift for literature lovers.
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The Great Gatsby And Related Stories (deckle Edge Paper)
£15.99Published five years after his stunning 1920 debut, This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby established F. Scott Fitzgerald as one of the most important writers of his generation. Its unforgettable characters, poetic prose, and large themes – money, class, and American optimism – have an enduring fascination and make The Great Gatsby a frequent candidate for ‘the Great American novel.’ Drawn from the authoritative Library of America edition of Fitzgerald’s collected writings, this deluxe paperback (which features French flaps and deckle-edge paper) presents a new, corrected text of The Great Gatsby by pre-eminent Fitzgerald scholar James L. W. West III. The Library of America text corrects errors, restores Fitzgerald’s preferred American spellings, and incorporates emendations the author made on galley proofs and in his personal copy of the book. Fitzgerald’s masterpiece is joined here by four contemporary stories – the ‘Gatsby cluster’
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The snow ghost and other tales
£16.99Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Japan was a country and culture that lived with between realms: the world of everyday and the world of supernatural. It was a time and place where men could be brought down by karmic forces or lured into deadly danger by ghostly apparitions, and where the land held sorrowful secrets or stories that long-awaited an opportunity to reveal them and seek reparation. ‘The Snow Ghost and Other Tales’ brings together some of the best and scariest tales that endured across centuries of folk lore in one new beautiful hardback collection.
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