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Journey into fear
£9.99It is 1939 and thw war in Europe has begun. On a freighter, somewhere in the Mediterranean, a man returning to England is being followed by German agents intent upon his death.
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The daughter of time
£10.99A gripping mix of historical and contemporary crime, voted the number one crime novel of all time.
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Cheri
£9.99Léa de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to the amorous education of the exquisitely handsome and spoilt Chéri – a playboy half her age. When an advantageous marriage is arranged for Chéri, Léa reluctantly decides their relationship must end. But neither lover can foresee how deeply they are connected, or how much they will have to give up.
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Suite Francaise
£9.99‘Suite Francaise’ is a lost masterpiece written in World War II France, telling the spellbinding story of a group of characters living under Nazi occupation.
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The library of Babel
£9.99Magical books, infinite libraries, parallel worlds, mazes, labyrinths and philosophical paradoxes haunt these spellbinding tales by one of the most uniquely inventive short story writers of the twentieth century. This collection brings together many of Borges’s greatest and most beloved stories, including ‘The Garden of Forking Paths’, ‘The Book of Sand’, and ‘Shakespeare’s Memory’.
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Nabokov’s dozen
£9.99In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lurk in all the corners. In others, elusive glimpses of fleeting happiness, which flutter away before they can be snatched, waylay their victims. Like the shimmer of the sea, the gleam of a glass caught by the sun, they sparkle brilliantly only to dissolve again. Two of the stories, ‘First Love’ and ‘Mademoiselle O’, are autobiographical, and ‘The Assistant Producer’ is based on real events, but the rest are pure flights of fantasy – or the stuff that life is weaved of?
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Chess
£9.99On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He agrees, but only on one condition – that the stakes are suitably high. Soon, the chessboard is surrounded with onlookers – and one voice in the crowd will play a key role in the outcome of the match.
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Calypso in London
£9.99Introducing ‘Little Clothbound Classics’, irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith. Celebrating the range and diversity of ‘Penguin Classics’, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Sam Selvon is now widely considered to be one of the greatest chroniclers of the West Indian emigrant experience. His evocation of voice, of place, of longing, defined for many the experience of a generation. Describing life in the Caribbean and day-to-day adventures in London, this collection features many his most acclaimed stories, including ‘The Village Washer’, ‘A Drink of Water’ and ‘The Cricket Match’.
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Death in midsummer
£9.99Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan’s greatest writers show the pull between duty and desire, ecstasy and death: a mother lost in mourning, a moonlit journey to fulfil a wish, a night of infidelity, a young lieutenant who ends his life.