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  • Kiddar's Luck

    by Jack Common ...
    He was indeed the nearest anybody ever got to Charlie Chaplin in print…the sentences skid and dance and hop on one leg or take a custard pie right on the chin or duck and weave and leave you gasping behind. But he is more for the wry smile than the belly laugh…' This was how Sid Chaplin described Jack Common, author of two of the finest working-class novels of the 20th century, and 'the finest ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Rogue Male

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    by Geoffrey Household ...
    THE classic thriller of the 20th century - 'Simply the best escape and pursuit story yet written' [THE TIMES] - with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane'[A] masterpiece: a bestseller that redefined its genre' GUARDIAN' Rogue Male is probably the most famous chase thriller ever, influencing an entire generation from Frederick Forsyth to Lee Child' CATHOLIC HERALD<... ... Read more

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  • Evelyn Prentis Bundle: A Nurse in Time/A Nurse in Action

    by Evelyn Prentis ...
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  • Nurse On Call

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  • The Doll: Short Stories

    by Daphne du Maurier ...
    Series Book 122 - Virago Modern Classics
    FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA.'She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense' GUARDIAN'One of the last century's most original literary talents' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Du Maurier employs well the assured balancing of uncanny possibilities ... and the bitterly wry sense of absurdity that were to characterise her finest fiction' HELEN TAYLOR, INDEPENDENT... ... Read more

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  • Mrs Griffin Sends Her Love

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    by Miss Read ...
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    by P.G. Wodehouse ...
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  • An Irish Country Childhood

    We Were So Young Back Then and Every Day Was a New Adventure

    by Marie Walsh ...
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  • A Nurse in Time

    by Evelyn Prentis ...
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  • The Whitsun Weddings

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  • Instead Of A Letter

    by Diana Athill ...
    Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to be married. Then everything fell apart in the cruellest possible way. In this classic modern memoir, Diana Athill dissects the terrible consequences of loss and her struggle to rebuild a personality destroyed by sadness. ... Read more

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