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Die Zauberflöte
By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
£12.00
BUY >Provides a perfect companion to opera-goers wishing to extend their understanding and increase their enjoyment of this much beloved work
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A Room of One’s Own
By Virginia Woolf
£5.99
BUY >A seminal, widely studied feminist polemic that touches on both literature and politics, A Room of One’s Own is essential reading for those wishing to understand the progress that has been made in women’s rights and the struggles that still lie ahead
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The Grey Parrot and Other Stories
By W.W. Jacobs
£8.99
BUY >Contains a careful selection of the very best stories from Jacobs’s 150-strong repertory, showcasing a unique assortment of stories spanning his writing career
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Apology for a Murder
By Lorenzino de' Medici
£5.99
BUY >Famed for having killed his cousin Alessandro, the Duke of Florence, in 1537, but also for writing accomplished literary works, including a comedy and several poems, Lorenzino de’ Medici remains one of the most enigmatic figures of Italian literature. In his masterpiece, Apology for a Murder, he rev…
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Man at Leisure
By Alexander Trocchi
£10.99 £8.79
Published for the first time in 1972, this verse collection reveals lesser-known facets of the novelist Alexander Trocchi’s writing. The poems included span a long period of time, and range from the lyricism of his early love poetry and reflections on his involvement in drug culture to the penetrati…
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Transformation
By Mary Shelley
£5.99 £4.79
Having frittered away his family’s fortune in Paris, the profligate Guido, driven by his ungovernable passions, is forced out of his native Genoa and harbours plans for revenge. After a mighty storm, he sees a mysterious, misshapen creature approaching from the sea, with whom he makes an infernal ba…
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On the Eve
By Ivan Turgenev
£8.99 £7.19
On the eve of the Crimean War, the young, headstrong Yelena, the daughter of aristocratic Russian parents, falls in love with a revolutionary from Bulgaria named Insarov. Facing the wrath and disapproval of her family, Yelena abandons her home to follow Insarov to Bulgaria. Their fateful match sets…
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The Godfathers: Lives and Crimes of Mafia Mobsters
By Roberto Olla
£8.99 £7.19
Much blood has been spilt on account of the Sicilian and American Mafias – and almost as much ink has been expended on recounting the details of their culture and crimes. However, comparatively little is known about the brutal, elusive figures who masterminded the development of one of the most powe…
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Thoughts
By Giacomo Leopardi
£7.99 £6.39
Admired for the poetical heights of his Canti, the gentle wit of his prose dialogues and the soul-searching questionings of his Zibaldone (Notebooks), Leopardi was also an acute social commentator and a sharp dissector of the human mind. Thoughts – a collection of philosophical and critical observat…
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The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories
By Leo Tolstoy
£7.99 £6.39
On a train journey, Pozdnyshev tells his story to a stranger: how his relationship with his wife gradually deteriorated from one of love and passion to jealousy and resentfulness, culminating in a mad act of desperation while she practised Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata with her violin teacher. An unco…
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Gulliver’s Travels
By Jonathan Swift
£5.99 £4.79
Shipwrecked on an unknown island, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself surrounded by its six-inch-tall natives, the Lilliputians. But this is only the first in a long line of wonderful discoveries, as his adventures take him to other far-off lands such as Brobdingnag, populated by a race of giants,…
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Incest
By Marquis de Sade
£7.99 £6.39
When the immoral libertine Monsieur de Franval marries and fathers a daughter, he decides to inculcate in her a sense of absolute freedom, an unconventional education that involves the two becoming secret lovers. But Franval’s virtuous, God-fearing wife becomes suspicious and confronts him, setting…
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The Cutting Edge: The Story of the Beatles’ Hairdresser Who Defined an Era
The Beatles’ hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set off a cul…
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The Great Gatsby
Invited to an extravagantly lavish party in a Long Island mansion, Nick Carraway, a young bachelor who has just settled in the neighbouring…
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Travelling to Infinity
In this compelling memoir, Jane Hawking, Stephen Hawking’s first wife, relates the inside story of their extraordinary marriage. As Stephen’…
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Treasure Island
One of the best-loved adventure stories ever written, Treasure Island’s timeless tale of pirates, lost treasure maps, mutiny and derring-do…
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The Very Thought of You
England, 31st August 1939: the world is on the brink of war. As Hitler prepares to invade Poland, thousands of children are evacuated from L…
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits and seduces Doria…
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The Little Prince
Having crash-landed in the Sahara desert, a pilot comes across a young boy who introduces himself as the Little Prince and tells him the sto…
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The Hundred-Foot Journey
The Hundred-foot Journey is the story of Hassan Haji, a boy from Mumbai who embarks, along with his boisterous family, on a picaresque journ…
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Remainder
Traumatized by an accident which ‘involved something falling from the sky’ and leaves him eight and a half million pounds richer but hopeles…
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Frankenstein
Since it was first published in 1818, Mary Shelley’s seminal novel has generated countless print, stage and screen adaptations, but none has…
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