An unlikely princess, exiled and innocent...Her Serene Highness Olympia of Oriens longs to return to her tiny, embattled land and lead her people in peace and equality. But with her evil uncle plotting against her, she needs a protector, and Captain Drake seems like the answer to her dreams...A...

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Andy Dalziel knows how to cope with crime. Give him a nice straightforward murder, some bloke with a gun and a grievance, and he's a happy man. But this new one, that the press is calling the ?Yorkshire Choker well, Andy could suggest some...

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The endearing thing about Angela Thirkell's Barsetshire is that it fundamentally never changes. The surface problems in shortages and transportation created by the war still continue, of course, but Barsetshire society has taken these in its stride and...

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The carefully observed separation of the old and the new social strata is upset when representatives of each come together in the sphere of Miss Bunting- the governess who has molded most of the country's upper class. Under Miss Bunting's tutelage, Anne,...

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Oscar Wilde wrote "I don't defend my conduct, I explain it, " when he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol in 1895 for his violation of England's stringent laws against homosexuality. Wilde's...

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Like the May of Teck Club itself, "three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit," the young women of London after WWII do their best to act as if...

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A daughter can be a dangerous weapon in the battle for the throne of EnglandFrances Grey harbored no dream of her children taking the throne. Cousin of the king, she knew...

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Saki is perhaps the most graceful spokesman for England's 'Golden Afternoon' - the slow and peaceful years before the First World War. Although, like so many of his generation, he died tragically young, in action on the Western Front, his reputation as...

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A notice in The Times addressed to 'Those who Appreciate Wistaria and Sunshine' advertises a 'small mediaeval Italian Castle on the shores of the Mediterranean to be let furnished for the month of April'. Four very different women take up the offer,...

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Expelled from Oxford for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather is oddly unsurprised to find himself qualifying for the position of schoolmaster at Llanabba Castle. His colleagues are an assortment of misfits, including Prendy (plagued by doubts) and captain Grimes, who is always in the soup (or just plain drunk). Then...

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Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and...

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Der siebenjährige Cedric Errol lebt mit seiner verwitweten Mutter in armen Verhältnissen in Amerika. Wegen seines sonnigen Wesens wird der kleine Junge von allen Menschen geliebt. Eines Tages ändert sich Cedrics Leben jedoch von Grund auf: Sein Großvater, Graf Dorincourt, möchte seinen Enkel zu sich...

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Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.No man can own Rowena Dangerfield--a sensuous, strong-willed lady with a fiery, unchained spirit--though many desire her. She had come to claim her birthright, following her destiny to the sprawling New Mexican frontier...and to...

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Introducing... Odeline Milk, a strange young lady from a sleepy, buttoned-down market town.A young lady with an obsession – you can guess what it is by the way she dresses: white collarless shirt, a waistcoat and billowing black...

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First published in 1907 Israel Rank: The Autobiography of a Criminal is perhaps best known as the inspiration for the classic Ealing comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets, which was voted the seventh greatest British film of all time by readers of "Total Film"...

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In the summer of 1920 two men, both war survivors meet in the quiet English countryside. One is living in the church, intent upon uncovering and restoring an historical wall painting while the other camps in...

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When Julia was eight, she was asked to be a bridesmaid at her beautiful cousin Iris’s wedding. Her mother saw this as a chore – expensive, inconvenient – but Julia was thrilled. When the time came,...

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A wickedly funny and satisfyingly highbrow black comedy about the collapse of Western academic institutions under the weight of neoliberal economics and crushing, widespread idiocy.Lars and W., the two preposterous philosophical anti-heroes of Spurious and Dogma—called...

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EMBARK ON A TURBULENT JOURNEY THROUGH A RAVAGED COUNTRYSIDE... WITH ONLY LIARS FOR COMPANY. In this extraordinary novel, Karen Maitland delivers a dazzling reinterpretation of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales-- an ingenious alchemy of history, mystery, and powerful human drama.The...

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