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The Golden Hours
£20.00Continuing the story of one of the most beloved families in British literature, The Golden Hours is the brilliant new novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard’s iconic Cazalet Chronicles written by her niece, and bestselling author, Louisa Young.
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Confusion
£10.99The third book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, beloved by generations of readers. Set in wartime Britain, Confusion follows the relationships of the Cazalet family and their lives, loves and losses.
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Marking Time
£10.99The second book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, beloved by generations of readers. As war breaks out in Britain, Marking Time follows a family wondering if their lives will ever return to normal.
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The Light Years
£10.99The first book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, beloved by generations of readers. With the onset of war, The Light Years reveals a privileged family facing uncertain times.
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All Change
£10.99The fifth book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, beloved by generations of readers. All Change follows the characters of a privileged family coming to terms with life in post-war England.
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Casting Off
£10.99The fourth book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, beloved by generations of readers. With peace finally declared, Casting Off follows the challenges of the Cazalet family as they emerge from war-torn Britain.
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Ten-Minute Book Club
£16.99A book of brilliant literary excerpts providing a new approach to engagement with literature in an inviting, accessible way.
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A Glastonbury Romance
£18.99Set in a beautifully imagined fictional version of the West Country, the novel inhabits a twentieth century under siege from older and stranger forces. An epic work of terrific force and lyrical intensity, interweaving the ancient with the modern, the novel probes the mystical and spiritual ethos of Glastonbury and its association with the legend of the Grail. At the heart of the book is the vision of one man, who wishes to make Glastonbury again the great pilgrimage centre it once was. But what really lies in this powerful landscape and why did so many men and women once come to it seeking redemption?
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Macmillan Collector’s Library Weekly Planner
£10.99A beautiful dateless diary for book lovers and stationery fans.
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We Were Forbidden
£9.99In the wake of some unfathomable war, a woman wanders the forest, forbidden from ever leaving its strange depths. As part of her rigid schooling, a teenage girl is barred from questioning the dogma she is taught to believe. Locked in a loveless marriage, a young woman satisfies her husband’s desires, twice-weekly, as directed – until she begins to pursue her own.
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Woman of Genius
£9.99Two sisters must find their way in a world designed to confine them. Marcelle is the elder sister, a woman whose ambitions focus on becoming the companion of a ‘man of genius’. Marguerite is the younger sister, a girl whose sanity depends on breaking free of the oppressive expectations of society. Both end up focusing their attentions on the same disappointing man.
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Ape and Essence
£9.99Huxley’s dystopian classic is a nightmare vision of the fate of humanity in a post-nuclear world. In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century since the world was devastated by nuclear war, but the blight of radioactivity and disease still gnaws away at the survivors. The expedition expects to find physical destruction but they are quite unprepared for the moral degradation they meet. Ape and Essence is Huxley’s vision of the ruin of humanity, told with all his knowledge and imaginative genius.
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Tender Buttons
£9.99Before becoming the patron of Lost Generation artists, Gertrude Stein established her reputation as an innovative author whose style was closer to painting than literature. Stein’s strong influence on 20th-century literature is evident in this work of highly original prose rendered in thought-provoking experimental techniques.
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A Gentle Spirit
£9.99Two of Dostoevsky’s most powerful novellas of obsession, cruelty, and the fragility of the heart. A pawnbroker paces beside his young wife’s body, attempting to piece together the circumstances that led to her suicide. A young man is overwhelmed by his own contentment and sows his ruin in a fierce attempt to protect it.
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The Parasite
£9.99The protagonist of this novel is named Austin Gilroy. He is a young professor of physiology whose friend, Professor Wilson, is specializing in occult practices and mesmerism. In one occasion, Gilroy is introduced to Miss Penclosa, a strange, crippled woman who claims to have psychic powers. To persuade the incredulous young man, she hypnotizes his fiancee in front of him. Being now convinced of her powers, though without having any rational explanations for them, Gilroy decides to attend the occult gatherings organized by Wilson and allows Miss Penclosa to practice her powers on him. Miss Penclosa, who falls in love with Gilroy, manages to push him to break his engagement with his fiancee. Gradually, he becomes totally dependent on her and can no longer free himself from her grip. She plays her tricks to make him praise her and caress her until he becomes like a mere toy in her hands.