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L. P. Hartley
World-renowned cartoonist Seth returns with three new ghost stories for 2024.
When a group of tourists visits the deserted island of Podolo, one wants to rescue a feral cat they…
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Peter Bien
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
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When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the…
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L.P. Hartley
The haunting story of a young boy’s awakening into the secrets of the adult world, The Go-Between is also an unforgettable evocation of the boundaries of Edwardian society.
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L P Hartley
Jael 97 is an Alpha, whose beauty makes her a target for the Ministry of Facial Justice, where she is expected to submit to having her face altered into a…
A witty story about the twists and turns of human relationships, as true now as it was in 1954.
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A masterly evocation of grief and loneliness that bind two very different people together, from the author of The Go-Between.
Jael 97 is an Alpha. Deemed over-privileged for her beauty, she is compelled to report to the Ministry of Facial Justice, where her face will be reconstructed. For Jael lives…
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Considered by Hartley to be his finest work, Simonetta Perkins is a brilliantly observed tale of desire and guilt. Set against a glorious Venetian backdrop, it explores the very nature…
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Colonel Macready thinks his bookish seventeen-year-old son Fergus is too soft, so he enlists the help of his manly chauffeur, Fred Carrington, to help whip the boy into shape. But…
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Originally published by Arkham House in 1948.
The magnum opus from the author of the much loved classic, THE GO-BETWEEN: ‘A masterpiece from the very first image’ (Guardian)
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A masterly evocation of childhood and its influences on the adult mind, from the author of The Go-Between
A complex masterpiece of observation. English village life in war-time Britain is brought to life.
Leo Colston - a man haunted by the events of his past - vividly recalls his unwitting role acting as a go-between for the beautiful upper-class Marian and the tenant-farmer…
C H B Kitchin
An elderly bachelor’s kindly intended interference in a young couple’s relationship has unexpected consequences. He finds himself caught up in a complicated triangle involving blackmail, a mysterious death, and courtroom…
