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One Green Bottle

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Elizabeth Coxhead was one of the foremost literary/narrative novelists of the 1950s. Ranked alongside such writers as Elizabeth Taylor and Pamela Hansford Johnson, she was a major voice in a golden age for the novel. One Green Bottle concerns the cultural and emotional journey followed by Cathy Canning, a young woman factory worker from the slums of Birkenhead when her boyfriend is sent to Borstal ... Read more

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Elizabeth Coxhead was one of the foremost literary/narrative novelists of the 1950s. Ranked alongside such writers as Elizabeth Taylor and Pamela Hansford Johnson, she was a major voice in a golden age for the novel. One Green Bottle concerns the cultural and emotional journey followed by Cathy Canning, a young woman factory worker from the slums of Birkenhead when her boyfriend is sent to Borstal
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The Grass is Singing

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The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in Rhodesia during the years of Apartheid.Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of ‘The Grass is Singing’ with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling, and immediately ... Read more

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The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing’s first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in Rhodesia during the years of Apartheid.Doris Lessing brought the manuscript of ‘The Grass is Singing’ with her when she left Southern Rhodesia and came to England in 1950. When it was first published it created an impact whose reverberations we are still feeling, and immediately
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The Mist In The Mirror

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For the last twenty years Sir James Monmouth has been a gentleman adventurer, journeying all over the globe in the footsteps of his hero, the great pioneering traveller Conrad Vane.One rainy winter night, Sir James returns to London. Orphaned at five, it is now time to find out more about his family and origins, and also to learn about the early years of Conrad Vane.But at every turn James is ... Read more

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For the last twenty years Sir James Monmouth has been a gentleman adventurer, journeying all over the globe in the footsteps of his hero, the great pioneering traveller Conrad Vane.One rainy winter night, Sir James returns to London. Orphaned at five, it is now time to find out more about his family and origins, and also to learn about the early years of Conrad Vane.But at every turn James is
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If I Don’t Write It Nobody Else Will

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The long awaited story of one of Britain’s greatest comic legends.'Some people walk on stage and the audience warms to them. You can't explain it, and you shouldn't try. It's an arrogant assumption to say you 'decide' to become a comedian. The audience decides for you.' Eric Sykes, December 2001From his early days writing scripts for Bill Fraser and Frankie Howerd through decades of British radio ... Read more

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The long awaited story of one of Britain’s greatest comic legends.'Some people walk on stage and the audience warms to them. You can't explain it, and you shouldn't try. It's an arrogant assumption to say you 'decide' to become a comedian. The audience decides for you.' Eric Sykes, December 2001From his early days writing scripts for Bill Fraser and Frankie Howerd through decades of British radio
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A Month in the Country

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A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.In J. L. Carr’s deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. ... Read more

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For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis.'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of ... Read more

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For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis.'Many poets make us smile; how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, "laugh out loud" (as if there's another way of doing it)? Who else uses an essentially conversational idiom to achieve such a variety of
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John Betjeman Collected Poems

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Collected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman's verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells. With a new Introduction by Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, Collected Poems is the definitive Betjeman companion. ... Read more

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Collected Poems made publishing history when it first appeared, and has now sold more than two million copies, to an ever-growing readership. This newly expanded edition includes Betjeman's verse autobiography, Summoned by Bells. With a new Introduction by Poet Laureate, Andrew Motion, Collected Poems is the definitive Betjeman companion.
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Mrs Griffin Sends Her Love

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A nostalgic collection on rural schools, childhood and English country life from the much-loved author of VILLAGE SCHOOL.From organising the school summer fete...'Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset, arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand'....to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood:'I collect stones with holes in them' ... Read more

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Flight of a Witch

by Ellis Peters ...

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A detective investigates the disappearance of a beautiful Welsh teenager in this "deeply satisfying" mystery by the author of the Brother Cadfael series ( Publishers Weekly ).Edgar Award and CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorAnnet Beck is hauntingly beautiful, which worries her parents so much that they guard her as closely as a prisoner . . . until the rainy Thursday in October when she ... Read more

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A detective investigates the disappearance of a beautiful Welsh teenager in this "deeply satisfying" mystery by the author of the Brother Cadfael series ( Publishers Weekly ).Edgar Award and CWA Diamond Dagger Award–Winning AuthorAnnet Beck is hauntingly beautiful, which worries her parents so much that they guard her as closely as a prisoner . . . until the rainy Thursday in October when she
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Three Houses

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In "Three Houses," Angela Margaret Thirkell masterfully intertwines the lives of three families residing in the fictional English village of Barsetshire during the interwar period. The novel employs a rich and engaging prose style, characterized by its witty dialogue and sharp social observation, which critique class dynamics and the changing societal norms of early 20th-century England. Thirkell ... Read more

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In "Three Houses," Angela Margaret Thirkell masterfully intertwines the lives of three families residing in the fictional English village of Barsetshire during the interwar period. The novel employs a rich and engaging prose style, characterized by its witty dialogue and sharp social observation, which critique class dynamics and the changing societal norms of early 20th-century England. Thirkell
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Coronation

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A heartwarming and tender story of a family's winding journey to witness Queen Elizabeth II's 1953 coronationCoronation Day, 2 June 1953The Claggs, a humble, working class family from Sheffield, are offered tickets to a once-in-a-lifetime-event – the Queen's coronation. Forsaking their annual seaside holiday for the promise of a prime viewing spot of the procession route and luxurious champagne, ... Read more

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Devious Murder

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First published in 1973, Devious Murder is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of intrigue, tantalising clues and colourful characters.Whilst taking the dog out for the last walk of a rainy day, Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard stumbles across a dead body. Recognising it as Charles Blunt, a thief he crossed paths with and admired many years before, Littlejohn is determined to solve the ... Read more

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First published in 1973, Devious Murder is a Chief Inspector Littlejohn mystery full of intrigue, tantalising clues and colourful characters.Whilst taking the dog out for the last walk of a rainy day, Inspector Littlejohn of Scotland Yard stumbles across a dead body. Recognising it as Charles Blunt, a thief he crossed paths with and admired many years before, Littlejohn is determined to solve the
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