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Cadenza

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A pioneering work of autofiction, Ralph Cusack’s Cadenza tackles time and memory, life and death “with an Anglo-Irish arrogance worthy of Beckett.” (Gilbert Sorrentino)‘It’s just like this: I don’t want to go home and I can’t stand Dublin nor any place between the two of them either or at all...’After a harrowing trip to the dentist, Desmond, the narrator of Ralph Cusack’s Cadenza, boards a train, ... Read more

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A pioneering work of autofiction, Ralph Cusack’s Cadenza tackles time and memory, life and death “with an Anglo-Irish arrogance worthy of Beckett.” (Gilbert Sorrentino)‘It’s just like this: I don’t want to go home and I can’t stand Dublin nor any place between the two of them either or at all...’After a harrowing trip to the dentist, Desmond, the narrator of Ralph Cusack’s Cadenza, boards a train,
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Thornyhold

A delightfully escapist and cozy read by the Queen of the Romantic Mystery

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'Genuine escapism - I couldn't put it down!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Best read on a cold winter night with hot chocolate' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'An instant favourite' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale.Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits brightened her childhood, the cottage, set deep i... ... Read more

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'Genuine escapism - I couldn't put it down!' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'Best read on a cold winter night with hot chocolate' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐'An instant favourite' Reader review ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐The rambling house called Thornyhold is like something out of a fairy tale.Left to Gilly Ramsey by the cousin whose occasional visits brightened her childhood, the cottage, set deep i...
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100 Poems

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The most loved and celebrated poems—from "The Cure at Troy" to "Death of a Naturalist"—by the Nobel Prize–winning poet.Seamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been ... Read more

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The most loved and celebrated poems—from "The Cure at Troy" to "Death of a Naturalist"—by the Nobel Prize–winning poet.Seamus Heaney had the idea to make a personal selection of poems from across the entire arc of his writing life, a collection small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this himself, but now, finally, the project has been
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Mrs. Miniver

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The beloved classic novel of an English housewife bravely enduring WWII—the basis for the Academy Award–winning film starring Greer Garson.Winston Churchill once remarked that Mrs. Miniver, the fictional British housewife featured in Jan Struther's newspaper columns about quotidian English life, did more for the Allied cause than a flotilla of battleships. As tensions rose across Europe, Mrs. ... Read more

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The beloved classic novel of an English housewife bravely enduring WWII—the basis for the Academy Award–winning film starring Greer Garson.Winston Churchill once remarked that Mrs. Miniver, the fictional British housewife featured in Jan Struther's newspaper columns about quotidian English life, did more for the Allied cause than a flotilla of battleships. As tensions rose across Europe, Mrs.
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Joan Makes History

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Kate Grenville's wonderfully irreverent novel rewrites 200-odd years of Australia's past. Joan is a wife and mother of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is in the front line of events, effortlessly subverting the solemnity of momentous occasions and cheerfully altering the course of history. ... Read more

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Kate Grenville's wonderfully irreverent novel rewrites 200-odd years of Australia's past. Joan is a wife and mother of no great distinction, but in the life of her imagination she is in the front line of events, effortlessly subverting the solemnity of momentous occasions and cheerfully altering the course of history.
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The Sinful Stones

by Peter Dickinson ...

Series Book 3 - The James Pibble Mysteries
Scotland Yard detective James Pibble travels to a remote Scottish island to free an old man from a dangerous cult of self-proclaimed saints and saviors in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter DickinsonNinety-two-year-old Sir Francis Francis summons James Pibble to an isolated island in the Hebrides to find out who pilfered the memoirs he was in the process of writing. The Nobel Prize ... Read more

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Scotland Yard detective James Pibble travels to a remote Scottish island to free an old man from a dangerous cult of self-proclaimed saints and saviors in this mystery by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter DickinsonNinety-two-year-old Sir Francis Francis summons James Pibble to an isolated island in the Hebrides to find out who pilfered the memoirs he was in the process of writing. The Nobel Prize
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A Childhood in Scotland

by Christian Miller ...

Series series Canongate Classics
This coming of age memoir offers an intimate portrait of 1920 life in a Scottish castle—"like stepping through the looking glass into another world" ( Glasgow World, UK)."When I was a little girl, the ghosts were more real to me than the people…" So begins Christian Miller's fascinating autobiography of girlhood in 1920s Scotland. Privileged and yet in many ways deprived, Miller grew up the ... Read more

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This coming of age memoir offers an intimate portrait of 1920 life in a Scottish castle—"like stepping through the looking glass into another world" ( Glasgow World, UK)."When I was a little girl, the ghosts were more real to me than the people…" So begins Christian Miller's fascinating autobiography of girlhood in 1920s Scotland. Privileged and yet in many ways deprived, Miller grew up the
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Cider with Rosie

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by Laurie Lee ...

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This international-bestselling memoir of childhood in post–World War I rural England is one of the most "remarkable" portraits of youth in all literature ( The New York Times).Three years old and wrapped in a Union Jack to protect him from the sun, Laurie Lee arrived in the village of Slad in the final summer of the First World War. The cottage his mother had rented for three and sixpence a week ... Read more

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This international-bestselling memoir of childhood in post–World War I rural England is one of the most "remarkable" portraits of youth in all literature ( The New York Times).Three years old and wrapped in a Union Jack to protect him from the sun, Laurie Lee arrived in the village of Slad in the final summer of the First World War. The cottage his mother had rented for three and sixpence a week
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Ash before Oak

by Jeremy Cooper ...

Ash before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly a nature diary, chronicling the narrator's interest in the local flora and fauna and the passing of the seasons, Ash before Oak is also the story of a breakdown told slantwise, and of the narrator's subsequent recovery through his reengagement with the world around him. ... Read more

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Ash before Oak is a novel in the form of a fictional journal written by a solitary man on a secluded Somerset estate. Ostensibly a nature diary, chronicling the narrator's interest in the local flora and fauna and the passing of the seasons, Ash before Oak is also the story of a breakdown told slantwise, and of the narrator's subsequent recovery through his reengagement with the world around him.
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The Year Without Summer

1816 - one event, six lives, a world changed - longlisted for the Walter Scott Prize 2021

by Guinevere Glasfurd ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2020'A STRIKINGLY SHARP AND SUBTLE WRITER' Guardian'SUPERB...BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN...UNFORGETTABLE' FT Weekend'SKILFUL' Sunday Times'RICH, INTRICATE, IMPRESSIVELY REALISED' Observer'VIVIDLY REALISED' Th... ... Read more

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT HISTORICAL FICTION PRIZE 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD 2020'A STRIKINGLY SHARP AND SUBTLE WRITER' Guardian'SUPERB...BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN...UNFORGETTABLE' FT Weekend'SKILFUL' Sunday Times'RICH, INTRICATE, IMPRESSIVELY REALISED' Observer'VIVIDLY REALISED' Th...
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A Different Sound

Stories by Mid-Century Women Writers

by Elizabeth Bowen, Daphne du Maurier, Elizabeth Taylor ...

Series series Pushkin Press Classics
Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland—many being published in America for the first timeThese remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj, ... Read more

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Elegant, timeless, and riveting: an exciting anthology of short stories by mid-century women writers from Britain and Ireland—many being published in America for the first timeThese remarkable short stories from the 1940s and 50s depict women and men caught between the pull of personal desires and profound social change. From a remote peninsula in Cornwall to the drawing rooms of the British Raj,
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A Postillion Struck by Lightning

A Memoir

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______________First published in 1977, A Postillion Struck by Lightning is volume one of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs.Following Bogarde from childhood through adolescence, to the beginnings of his budding career, A Postillion Struck by Lightning is a heartfelt memoir, offering insight into what created the drive and charisma that eventually made him a star. Dreamy, sun-soaked summers full ... Read more

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______________First published in 1977, A Postillion Struck by Lightning is volume one of Dirk Bogarde's best-selling memoirs.Following Bogarde from childhood through adolescence, to the beginnings of his budding career, A Postillion Struck by Lightning is a heartfelt memoir, offering insight into what created the drive and charisma that eventually made him a star. Dreamy, sun-soaked summers full
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