Classic Stories From Japan
£10.99A collection of famous and lesser-known tales from classic Japanese folklore, including ‘The Bamboo Cutter and the Moon Child’, inspiration for Studio Ghibli’s Princess Kaguya.
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The Metamorphosis
£11.99Franz Kafka’s famously absurd novella about alienation and identity, now published in a new translation by Shaun Whiteside.
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The Speckled Band
£6.99A thrilling set of stories from Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. One of ten pocket-sized paperbacks from Macmillan Collector’s Library celebrating the art of the short story.
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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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Twenty-Four Books for Advent
£100.00Celebrate classic literature in miniature this Christmas, and for many years to come…This is the book-lover’s countdown to Christmas. Twenty-four miniature hardback books, each containing a classic festive story, are arranged in a beautiful slipcase that will last forever. Bring literary Christmas joy to your home throughout advent with beautifully produced little books to read, display and cherish! A delightful new tradition for readers of every kind.Features: A beautifully designed slipcase holds twenty-four numbered miniature booksChristmas stories by Charles Dickens, E Nesbit, Louisa May Alcott, Hans Christian Andersen and many moreEach book has a gold loop, allowing it to be hung on your treeTreasure these books as unique Christmas decorations for years to come.
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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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Classic Weird Stories
£11.99A mesmerizing collection of weird short stories conjuring strong emotion, from curiosity to downright fear.
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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.