Ken Prep World Book Day: The Blitz Sisters Razors Edge
£9.99Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham’s best characters. He himself also figures largely in the story.
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Of Human Bondage
£10.99Of Human Bondage is a semi-autobiographical novel of love and the obsession of Philip Carey for the waitress Mildred Rogers. The book was first published in 1911.
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PMC Animal Farm
£7.99Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. Orwell’s allegoric story of the betrayal of idealism through tyranny and corruption is as fresh today as when it was first published in 1945.
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PMC Great Gatsby
£7.99A masterpiece, a dazzling social satire, and a milestone in twentieth century literature, The Great Gatsby peels away the layers of the glamorous twenties in the U.S. to display the coldness and cruelty at its heart.
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PMC In Cold Blood
£9.99Agent Al Dewey of the Kansas Bureau of Investigation has a horrific murder to solve – and precious few clues. Capote’s reconstruction of the slaughter of an entire family shows a gripping mix of journalistic skills and imaginative power.
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Strangers On A Train
£9.99From the moment that Bruno decides that he should kill Guy’s wife and that Guy kills Bruno’s father, Guy Haines is trapped in a nightmare of shared guilt and an insidious merging of personalities.
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Vintage Classics All Quiet Western Front
£9.99This story is told by a young soldier in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see the realities of war. Incidents are vividly described, but there is no sense of adventure, only the feeling of youth betrayed.
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Tree Grows In Brooklyn
£9.99Francie Nolan is a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. Her family are brave, devoted immigrants, struggling to survive and rise above the squalor, poverty and violence that surround their tenement home.
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