Flamingoes in Orbit
By: Philip Ridley
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A teenager stares at his reflection and sees the Milky Way. A motorbike prowls and growls like a wi…
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1. The Iron Man
By: Ted Hughes , Tom Gauld
3.89
Format: 63 pages, Paperback
Mankind must put a stop to the dreadful destruction caused by the Iron Man. A trap is set for him, … read more
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- short stories
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"If you're all so peaceful up there, how did you get such greedy and cruel ideas?" The dragon was silent for a long time after this question. And at last he said: "It just came over me. I don't know w…"-Ted Hughes, The Iron Man
"He picked up a greasy black stove and chewed it like a toffee. There were delicious crumbs of chrome on it. He followed that with a double-decker bedstead and the brass knobs made his eyes crackle wi…"-Ted Hughes, The Iron Man
2. Picnic at Hanging Rock
By: Joan Lindsay
3.67
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
It was a cloudless summer day in the year nineteen hundred. Everyone at Appleyard College for Yo… read more
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"Thinking's all right if you have the time for it."-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"At every step the prospect ahead grew more enchanting with added detail of crenellated crags and lichen-patterned stone. Now a mountain laurel glossy above the dogwood's dusty silver leaves, now a da…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"Although we are necessarily concerned, in a chronicle of events, with physical action by the light of day, history suggests that the human spirit wanders farthest in the silent hours between midnight…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
"And now, at last, after a lifetime of linoleum and asphalt and Axminster carpets, the heavy flat-footed woman trod the springing earth. Born fifty-seven years ago in a suburban wilderness of smoke-gr…"-Joan Lindsay, Picnic at Hanging Rock
3. North and South
By: Elizabeth Gaskell , Alan Shelston
4.15
Format: 521 pages, Paperback
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her com… read more
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- fiction
"No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"One may be clogged with honey and unable to rise and fly."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"But the future must be met, however stern and iron it be. "-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
"He is my first olive: let me make a face while I swallow it."-Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
4. The Chrysalids
By: John Wyndham
3.93
Format: 200 pages, Mass Market Paperback
A world paralysed by genetic mutation John Wyndham takes the reader into the anguished heart of … read more
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- fiction
"We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that."-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth."-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
"... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They learnt to co-operate constructively in small units; but only destructiv…"-John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
5. Reaper Man (Discworld, #11; Death, #2)
By: Terry Pratchett
4.12
Format: None pages, Paperback
'Death has to happen. That's what bein' alive is all about. You're alive, and then you're dead. It … read more
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6. The Sirens of Titan
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depr… read more
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7. The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
By: Clive Barker , Neil Gaiman , Steve Parkhouse , Chris Bachalo , Michael Zulli , Mike Dringenberg , Malcolm Jones III , Todd Klein
4.43
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
A being who has existed since the beginning of the universe, Dream of the Endless rules over the re… read more
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"And Desire smiles, and forgets, for Desire is a creature of the moment."-Clive Barker, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
"For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel."-Clive Barker, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
"Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them."-Clive Barker, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
"Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them."-Clive Barker, The Sandman, Vol. 2: The Doll's House
8. Follia
By: Patrick McGrath , Matteo Codignola
3.96
Format: 294 pages, Paperback
«Le storie d’amore contraddistinte da ossessione sessuale sono un mio interesse professionale ormai… read more
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"Gli uomini gelosi sono intrinsecamente deboli. Hanno il terrore di essere abbandonati."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"these are precisely the conditions that killed love, after first blighting its growth: squalor, fear, uncertainty, overfamiliarity."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"Stella mi disse di aver capito in quel momento che in ciascuno di noi c'è come l'anelito a gridare al mondo la verità, a qualsiasi costo. O a distruggersi."-Patrick McGrath, Follia
"For despite his confidence, and his apparent maturity, I suspected that there was in him a deep and childish need to elevate, and idealize, the love object. This is not uncommon in artists. The very …"-Patrick McGrath, Follia
9. The Double
By: Fyodor Dostoevsky
3.68
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
While his literary reputation rests mainly on such celebrated novels as Crime and Punishment, The B… read more
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- fiction
"Tulburarea sa echivala cu agonia."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"La inocencia es la fuerza de la inocencia"-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"Totul, până și destinul, se înarma împotriva sa."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
"Așa e firea mea. Vreau întotdeauna să merg mai iute decât evenimentele."-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Double
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- lgbt
11. Poor Things
By: Alasdair Gray
3.94
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
One of Alasdair Gray's most brilliant creations, Poor Things is a postmodern revision of Frankenste… read more
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"Besides, a life without freedom to choose is not worth having."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"She also said the wicked people needed love as much as good people and were much better at it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her. Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
"You, dear reader, have now two accounts to choose between and there can be no doubt which is most probable."-Alasdair Gray, Poor Things
12. Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
By: Agatha Christie
3.59
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
A teenage murder witness is drowned in a tub of apples. At a Hallowe'en party, Joyce, a hostile th… read more
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"Put that in your mustache and smoke it."-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
"You and I have a principle in common. We do not approve of murder."-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
"Flowers never look so lovely as they do in Paris in the market there."-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
"Nobody would ever get anything done nowadays if they weren't in a hurry."-Agatha Christie, Hallowe'en Party (Hercule Poirot, #41)
13. The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
By: Angela Carter
3.92
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
From familiar fairy tales and legends - Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Puss in Boots, Beauty and the B… read more
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"Her hair falls down like tears"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"ordered me a sky from a florist"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My spite was sharp as broken glass"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
"My father lost me to the Beast at cards"-Angela Carter, The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
14. The Lottery and Other Stories
By: Shirley Jackson
4.32
Format: 480 pages,
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when i… read more
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15. Chocky
By: John Wyndham
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Cover Artist: Harry Willock Matthew, they thought, was just going through a phase of talking to him… read more
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16. Mothering Sunday
By: Graham Swift
4.25
Format: 179 pages, Hardcover
A luminous, intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers' assignation in the spring of 19… read more
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17. Flamingoes in Orbit
By: Philip Ridley
4.04
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
A teenager stares at his reflection and sees the Milky Way. A motorbike prowls and growls like a wi… read more
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