Sicilian Uncles
Leonardo Sciascia, N.S. Thompson and Arthur Oliver
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The expression 'Sicilian uncle' has the same sense in Italian as 'Dutch uncle' does in English, but...
Kismet, Fate, Call it What You Like
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Ever wondered what makes people richer, happier or luckier than others? 'Kismet...Fate...Call It...
Cockerels and Vultures: French Poems of the First World War
Albert-Paul Granier and Ian Higgins
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Cockerels and Vultures is a book for everyone interested in the poetry of the First World War. For...
Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio and J.G. Nichols
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In the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the...
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In a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up. Ostracised because of her...
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary: Volume 1
M.R. James, Leah Moore and John Reppion
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Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master...
The Hypochondriac
Roger McGough and Moliere
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First produced in 1673 and Moliere's final play, The Hypochondriac is a scathingly funny lampoon on...
Brideshead Revisited
Evelyn Waugh and Bryony Lavery
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My theme is memory, that winged host - that soared about me one grey morning of wartime. Billeted to...
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985)
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The first time the Griswolds took a trip, moviegoers everywhere went along for the ride.and went...
Goodbye East End: An Evacuee's Story
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As Hitler's bombs threatened London during World War Two, eight-year-old David Merron was removed...