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Slick

By M.M. Vaughan

£7.99 £4.00

Eric Young is the first child android to be trialled in society, but he doesn’t know that. He does know that he’s just moved to Ashland from London, so it’s important that he makes new friends. Not just any friends, but the right kind – the kind that would be interested in skateboarding and the new…

Beowulf

£7.99 £6.39

Of unknown date, and surviving in a tenth-century manuscript, Beowulf is the tale of a young Geatish hero and his struggle with three deadly foes, beginning with the dread monster Grendel, who has been devouring warriors in the hall of the Danish King in their sleep. The most important Old English p…

Leaves of Grass

By Walt Whitman

£8.99 £7.19

First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman’s lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating at the same time “Nature without c…

Pen in Hand

By Tim Parks

£14.99 £7.50

After delighting us with his novels and many volumes of non-fiction, Tim Parks gives us a book to enjoy, savour and, most importantly, reread

The Age of Innocence

By Edith Wharton

£5.99 £4.79

An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York’s high society in the 1870s

Complete Poems

By John Keats

£9.99 £7.99

Already with thee! tender is the night, And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, Cluster’d around by all her starry Fays; But here there is no light, Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. Despite his tragically short life, John Keats, a se…

Selected Plays

By Oscar Wilde

£7.99 £6.39

Also including the powerful Salome, this collection displays Wilde at his provocative and witty best

The Prelude and Other Poems

By William Wordsworth

£7.99 £6.39

“Though absent long, These forms of beauty have not been to me, As is a landscape to a blind man’s eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns in cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart” William Wordsworth’s verse…

Lyrics: Volume 2 (1817–24)

By Alexander Pushkin

£9.99 £7.99

The pioneer of modern Russian literature, Alexander Pushkin has exerted – through his novel in verse Eugene Onegin, his plays, his short stories and his narrative poetry – a lasting influence well beyond the borders of his motherland. A slightly lesser-known, but by no mean less important aspect of…

A Fantasy of Dr Ox

By Jules Verne

£5.99 £4.79

In the somnolent Flemish town of Quiquendone disagreements are unheard of, courtships might last a decade and not a ripple of activity can be seen at all. But when the mysterious Dr Ox is tasked with providing lighting for the town, strange things begin to happen: animals become aggressive, fruits g…

The Touchstone

By Edith Wharton

£5.99 £4.79

Stephen Glennard is in desperate need of money. So when he becomes aware of the potential value of a series of passionate love letters written to him by the recently deceased author Margaret Aubyn, he sells them and marries the beautiful Alexa Trent. However, his shame and guilt at building a new li…

The Mill on the Floss

By George Eliot

£5.99 £4.79

Raised in the idyllic setting of Dorlcote Mill, the wild and wilful Maggie Tulliver adores her elder brother Tom and is forever trying to gain the approbation of her parents. Yet, as she grows older and the family struggle under the weight of severe pecuniary difficulties, she becomes increasingly c…