
Nabokov's Favourite Word is Mauve: The Literary Quirks and Oddities of Our Most-Loved Authors
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'Read this book thoughtfully. It's fun. And, I think, the shape of some very interesting things to...

Screening Modern Irish Fiction and Drama: 2016
R. Barton Palmer and Marc C. Conner
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This book offers the first comprehensive discussion of the relationship between Modern Irish...

Splattered Ink: Postfeminist Gothic Fiction and Gendered Violence
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In-depth and refreshingly readable, Splattered Ink is a bold analysis of postfeminist gothic, a...

A Week in December
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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the...

Antidote to Venom
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'Mr Wills Crofts is deservedly a first favourite with all who want a real puzzle' - Times Literary...

Rambling on: An Apprentice's Guide to the Gift of the Gab
Bohumil Hrabal and David Short
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Novelist Bohumil Hrabal was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and he spent decades working at a variety...

Makeshift and Hunger March: Two Novels by Dot Allan
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Makeshift, first published in 1928, deals with a young girl's adolescence and early adulthood in...

Elmet
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Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and...
Literary Fiction

The Idiot: A Novel
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Selin, a tall, highly strung Turkish-American from New Jersey turns up at Harvard and finds herself...
Literary Fiction

The Secret Life of Bees
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Set in South Carolina during 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of a fourteen year old...
Fiction social issues