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The Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford

Mitford's wickedly funny prose follows the romantic fortunes of Linda Radlett, who is relentless in her search for true love.

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The Qur'ân

Few books in history are as important as the Qur’ân. Evoking devotion and passion amongst the faithful, this sacred book, composed in transcendentally beautiful language, is at the heart of one of the world’s great faiths.

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Relativity

Albert Einstein

Published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Einstein's great achievement, it is the essential guide to one of the most fundamental discoveries of modern science.

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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

In 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, borrows his employer’s car for a summer motoring trip, but his journey takes him further than he expects – deep into his own past.

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The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers

Erskine Childers’ only novel, The Riddle of the Sands, was a sensation when first published and a major influence on such writers as John Buchan and Ian Fleming.

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The Right Stuff

Tom Wolfe

Tom Wolfe’s modern classic tells the thrilling story of the United States’ pioneering space missions. Alan Shephard, Charles Yeager and John Glenn were among the aviators with ‘the right stuff’, that elusive quality beyond mere bravery.

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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

In this ultimate story of shipwreck and survival, Defoe describes Robinson Crusoe's trials and ingenious solutions in such convincing detail that we believe them to be real.

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The Roman Revolution

Ronald Syme

Ronald Syme chronicles the final years of the ancient Roman Republic and the rise to power of Octavian, who emerged from the chaos to become ruler of the world.

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The Rosetta Stone

Dominique Valbelle

Valbelle captures the sheer excitement of the quest to read Egyptian hieroglyphics, offering many sharp insights into the obsessive, eccentric men whose wild guesses, vicious personal attacks and superb detective work eventually led to the decoding of the Rosetta Stone.

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Saints & Sinners: A History of the Popes

Eamon Duffy

Widely regarded as the best single-volume account of the papacy, Saints & Sinners charts the 2,000 year history of one the most powerful institutions in the world.

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Orczy

Set during the height of the French Revolution, les aristos are being guillotined in their hundreds. One man organises a series of daring rescues, but can the Scarlet Pimpernel keep his identity a secret, even from his wife?

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Schindler's Ark

Thomas Keneally

Achieving universal recognition through Steven Spielberg’s multi-Academy Award winning film, Schindler’s Ark tells the true story of Oskar Schindler, the unlikely saviour of over 1,300 Jews during one of history’s darkest periods.

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The Screwtape Letters

C. S. Lewis

Darkly comic yet deadly serious, The Screwtape Letters depicts a morally reversed world in which Screwtape presses his protégé to ever more ingenious means of temptation.

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SOE

M. R. D. Foot

SOE tells the thrilling history of the Special Operations Executive, the top secret agency formed in July 1940 to carry out missions of sabotage and espionage in Axis-occupied countries.

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The Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett

Misselthwaite Manor holds two mysteries, a strange unhappy crying in the night and a walled garden with a door locked and forgotten for ten years. On the day a robin shows Mary where the key lies buried, the Magic begins

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