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British Fiction - 20th Century
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Frenchman's Creek
Daphne du Maurier
Perhaps her most purely romantic work, Frenchman’s Creek broaches one of du Maurier’s most consistent themes: how difficult it is for a woman to live a free and independent life.
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Jamaica Inn
Daphne du Maurier
In this, the first of her Cornish novels, published in 1936, du Maurier created a story of such power and a setting so fully realised that The Inn itself has since become a part Cornish myth.
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My Cousin Rachel
Daphne du Maurier
A peerless study of the destructive power of suspicion - the tension mounts through brilliant characterisation and skillful plotting.
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Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
Suspicion and jealousy breed fast as the truth behind Rebecca’s death comes to light.
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The Country Child
Alison Uttley
A true classic, The Country Child is filled with a child’s sense of wonder at the world around her and is one of the most enchanting stories of childhood ever told.
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A Dance to the Music of Time: 4 volume set
Anthony Powell
Writers and critics, from Evelyn Waugh to A. N. Wilson, have lined up to declare Anthony Powell’s twelve-book masterpiece, one of the greatest works of the twentieth century.
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Don't Look Now and Other Stories
Daphne du Maurier
It was in her shorter prose that Daphne du Maurier allowed the free reign to her remarkable imagination.
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The Good Soldier
Ford Madox Ford
John Dowell sits down in an English country house to write ‘the saddest story’ he ever heard, presenting us with five tangled lives as he struggles to make sense of the past. For behind the Edwardian façade of elegant ease and correctness lurks secret layered upon secret.
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His Dark Materials
Philip Pullman
A magnificent new Folio Society edition of a worldwide phenomenon. The award-winning trilogy His Dark Materials in its first ever fully illustrated hardback edition.
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I, Claudius
Robert Graves
Graves was no mean scholar; and although he takes a novelist's license, his version is based on historical sources, from the scurrilous scandals of Suetonius to the politically republican history of Tacitus' Annals.
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Justine
Lawrence Durrell
Justine, the first volume in Lawrence Durrell's great literary epic The Alexandria Quartet, is an intoxicating story of passion and loss, vast in scope and peopled by memorable personalities, evocatively illustrated with period photographs.
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Lark Rise to Candleford
Flora Thompson
Flora Thompson's heartwarming portrayal of country life at the close of the 19th century is both an important social history and a magical elegy to a vanished world.
Available March 2009.
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Love in a Cold Climate
Nancy Mitford
Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, the story of coldly beautiful Polly Hampton and her aristocratic parents is a comedy of English manners between the wars by one of the most individual, beguiling and creative users of the language.
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Master & Commander
Patrick O'Brian
The naval adventure novel has a long and distinguished literary history, but none has inhabited the genre with such unqualified mastery as Patrick O‘Brian.
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A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
After a mysterious accident during their visit to the caves, Dr Assiz is accused of assaulting Adela Quested, a naive young Englishwoman. As he is brought to trial, the fragile structure of Anglo-Indian relations collapses and the racism inherent in colonialism is exposed in all its ugliness.
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