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HUGHES HALLETT LUCY
From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary history of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.
As King James I's favourite…
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Charlotte Bronte
Based on the author’s personal experience as a teacher in Brussels, this work presents a tale of repressed feelings and subjection to cruel circumstance and position, borne with heroic fortitude.
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Daphne du Maurier
Daphne du Maurier’s classic gothic thriller in a hardcover Everyman’s Library edition with a new introduction, bibliography, and chronology –
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Willa Cather
The reminiscences of a New York lawyer, Jim Burden, about his boyhood in Nebraska, particularly a young Bohemian girl named Antonia Shimerda, are set against the backdrop of the American…
Jane Smiley
This is a Borzoi book –Copyright page.
Charles Dickens
A rich and pompous merchant is plagued by loneliness and misfortune.
A Victorian governess’s love for her mysterious employer is threatened by the tragic secret of his mansion.
Phillip Pullman
Lyra is an orphan who lives in a parallel universe in which science, theology and magic are entwined. Lyra’s search for a kidnapped friend uncovers a sinister plot involving stolen…
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Beginning beneath the walls of Troy and culminating in 1930s Europe, a magisterial exploration of the nature of heroism in Western civilization.
In this riveting and insightful cultural history, Lucy…
Originally published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
‘One of the best novels of the year so far’ The Times ‘Unlike anything I’ve read. Haunting and huge, and funny and sensuous. It’s wonderful’ Tessa Hadley ‘I just enjoyed…
From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fall of George Villiers, the first Duke of Buckingham.
Originally published in Great Britain in 2019 by 4th Estate, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers –Copyright page.
WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WINNER OF THE 2013 DUFF COOPER PRIZE WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR 2014 WINNER OF…
Not since Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new. Not since Wim Winders’ Wings of Desire have the numinous and the everyday…
Anne Bronte
The only one-volume hardcover edition of the two uncommonly powerful novels written by the youngest of the famous Bronte sisters.
Anne Bronte wrote these two fantastically successful novels just before…
Philip Pullman
Includes the three works in Pullman’s classic fantasy trilogy, which has often been considered a reimagining of Milton’s Paradise lost.
Iris Origo
A harrowing account of life in Italy in the year leading up to World War II.
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Jenny Uglow,Lucy Hughes-Hallett
The first book on forgotten 1930s artist Suzanne Cooper.
A harrowing account of life in Italy in the year leading up to World War II, available in the US for the first time.
In 1939 it was not a…
