By: William Golding
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mas…
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By: Rafael Sabatini , Gary Hoppenstand
Format: 359 pages, Mass Market Paperback
“Last Wednesday he had been engaged in moving an audience of Rennes to anger; on this Wednesday he … read more
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"With you it is always the law, never equity."-Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)
"Speed will follow when the mechanism of the movements is more assured."-Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)
"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."-Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)
"What a man dares to do, he should dare to confess- unless he is a coward."-Rafael Sabatini, Scaramouche (Scaramouche, #1)
By: Jay Rubin , Ryūnosuke Akutagawa
Format: 58 pages, Paperback
"There can be no doubt that Akutagawa had more individuality than any other writer of his time and… read more
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"He was said to have survived starvation by eating human flesh, after which he had the strength to tear out the antlers of a living stag with his bare hands."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"People used to say that on moonless nights Her Ladyship's broad-skirted scarlet trousers would glide eerily along the outdoor corridor, never touching the floor."-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"I could have sworn that the man's eyes were no longer watching his daughter dying in agony, that instead the gorgeous colors of flames and the sight of a woman suffering in them were giving him joy b…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
"Still more horrible was the color of the flames that licked the latticed cabin vents before shooting skyward, as though - might I say? - the sun itself had crashed to earth, spewing its heavenly fire…"-Jay Rubin, Hell Screen
By: Giles Gordon , Ann Quin
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his fathe… read more
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"But I don't belong to any one, therefore attachment to anything means betrayal, self-banishment, renounce self-continuity, self-transcendence; the ego only there to give significance"-Giles Gordon, Berg
"Threading experience through imaginative material, acting out fictitious parts, or choosing a stale-mate for compromise. Under this fabrication a secret army gathers defeating those who stalk the sca…"-Giles Gordon, Berg
By: William Golding
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dean Jocelin has a vision: that God has chosen him to erect a great spire on his cathedral. His mas… read more
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By: John Milton
Format: None pages, Paperback
In purely poetic value, Paradise Regainedis little inferior to its predecessor. There may be nothin… read more
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By: Ernest Hemingway
Format: 153 pages, Paperback
This influential 14-story collection includes some of the Nobel laureate’s most notable short ficti… read more
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"The road of the pass was hard and smooth and not yet dusty in the early morning."-Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
"The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too."-Ernest Hemingway, Men Without Women
By: Iris Murdoch
Format: 142 pages,
Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in the real worl… read more
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By: Harold Pinter
Format: None pages, Paperback
This play was first performed in 1960. Harold Pinter specializes in the tragicomedy of the breakdow… read more
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By: Hubert Selby Jr.
Format: 42 pages, Paperback
Secluded in his remand cell, a small-time criminal surrenders himself to sadistic fantasies of hatr… read more
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By: Ngaio Marsh
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
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By: Anthony Trollope , None
Format: 217 pages, Paperback
When Reverend Josiah Crawley, the impoverished curate of Hogglestock, is accused of theft it causes… read more
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By: Alister E. McGrath
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Fifty years after his death, C. S. Lewis continues to inspire and fascinate millions. His legacy re… read more
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By: E.R. Eddison , Keith Henderson
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
This is the book that shaped the landscape of contemporary science fiction and fantasy. When The Lo… read more
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By: John Milton , None
Format: None pages,
A tragedy by John Milton, it is considered the greatest English drama based on the Greek model and … read more
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By: C.S. Forester
Format: 325 pages, Paperback
May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in com… read more
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By: C.S. Forester
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
Forced to surrender his ship, the Sutherland, after a long and bloody battle, Captain Horatio Hornb… read more
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By: Scott Preston
Format: 303 pages, Kindle Edition
A cinematic neo-Western set in the fells of northern England. "Half Tarantino and half pitch-bla… read more
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"We’d burned through everything, even what we’d no right to, rubbed out the stars and hid the moon, and if the night sky wasn’t already black, we’d have had a good go at making it."-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"She’d look at me like I’m an idiot since I am one, but she still looked at me. That’s how Helen was, and that’s how I’ve always been. That’s why I like dogs more than people. Why I am a bloody dog. T…"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"Two weeks of thinking I’d sort it out tomorrow, what came next. Eating crisps in bed or in the bath and getting a headache from all the salt. Daytime telly on as if it can keep you warm—the kind that…"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
"It rained on the day of my dad’s funeral. Folk here are born with waterproof skin and a double set of eyelids like a trout. But I’ve seen nowt like it before. Wherever the ground dipped it turned to …"-Scott Preston, The Borrowed Hills
By: Sofia Coppola
Format: 488 pages, Paperback
Archive is the first book by Sofia Coppola, covering the entirety of her singular and influential c… read more
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By: Emma Dabiri
Format: 94 pages, Kindle Edition
An unmissable essay from Emma Dabiri, Sunday Times bestselling author of Don't Touch My Hair and Wh… read more
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By: Ben Hopkins
Format: 622 pages, Hardcover
A thoroughly immersive read and a remarkable feat of imagination, Cathedral tells a sweeping story … read more
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