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Around the World in Eighty Days
£7.99When the calm, resourceful Phileas Fogg takes up a wager at the London Reform Club to prove that the world is a smaller place that can be circumnavigated in 80 days, little did his valet, Passeportout, realise the adventures they had in store.
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Penguin Great Loves Giovannis Room
£9.99When David meets the sensual Giovanni in a bohemian bar, he is swept into a passionate love affair. But his girlfriend’s return to Paris destroys everything. Unable to admit to the truth, David pretends the liaison never happened, while Giovanni’s life descends into tragedy.
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Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont
£9.99On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel, where she will spend the rest of her days. She encounters the handsome young writer, Ludo, and learns that even the old can fall in love.
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The hearing trumpet
£9.99When 92-year-old Marian Leatherby is given the gift of a hearing trumpet, she overhears her family plotting to commit her to an institution.
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End Of The Affair
£9.99The novelist Maurice Bendrix’s love affair with his friend’s wife, Sarah, had begun in London during the Blitz. But, out of the blue she ended the relationship. Years later he sends a private detective to follow Sarah and find out the truth.
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Vintage Classic Brighton Rock
£9.99A gang war is raging in Brighton. Pinkie is 17 and fighting for leadership. He has already proved his ruthlessness by killing Hale, a journalist. But he isn’t prepared for the courageous Ida Arnold who is determined to avenge Hale’s death.
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Catch 22
£9.99At the heart of Joseph Heller’s bestselling novel is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of Captain Yossarian who spends his time plotting to survive.
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Slipstream Memoir
£12.99A candid and revealing memoir from Elizabeth Jane Howard, the bestselling and lauded author of the Cazalet Chronicles and one of twentieth century Britain’s greatest storytellers.
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PC Brothers Karamazov
£9.99When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya is placed under suspicion; Ivan’s mental tortures drive him to breakdown; Alyosha tries to heal the family’s rifts; and there is always the shadow of their bastard half-brother, Smerdyakov.
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PC Frankenstein
£8.99Mary Shelly’s classic tale of terror is the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young student, who learns the secret of imparting life into a creature that he has constructed from corpses he finds.
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PMC Tender Is The Night
£8.99Tender is the Night is based upon the author’s unhappy marriage, and was written as he was experiencing the tragedies of his wife’s nervous breakdown and his own decline.