British & Irish Fiction

From the modernists to contemporary Booker Prize winners...

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The Lost World

Arthur Conan-Doyle

When journalist Edward Malone begs for an exciting assignment abroad to prove himself to his sweetheart Gladys, he is told, ‘The big blank spaces in the map are all being filled in, and there’s no room for romance anywhere.’ Yet this is not the view of the hot-headed and unconventional Professor Challenger, who has evidence of an undiscovered region in South America where dinosaurs and other creatures from the prehistoric era survive.

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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.

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Balthazar

Lawrence Durrell

The narrative takes an unexpected turn in Balthazar as Darley’s eponymous friend pays him a visit and forces Darley to re-evaluate everything he knows about Justine, her true feelings and her loyalties in Alexandria.

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Mountolive

Lawrence Durrell

In Mountolive, the political and social tensions in Egypt come to the foreground when the young English diplomat David Mountolive befriends the Hosnani family, and embarks on an affair with the beautiful matriarch Leila.

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Clea

Lawrence Durrell

Clea brings the Quartet to a haunting close, as Darley returns to Alexandria to make amends and attempts to find happiness with the lovely and gifted painter Clea Montis.

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Persuasion

Jane Austen

Austen’s deepest, most tenderly explored love story, Persuasion was also her last. Alongside Austen’s sharp-eyed depiction of Anne, Captain Wentworth and the elegant streets of Bath there is an elegiac tone to Persuasion that makes it many readers’ favourite.

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At the Back of the North Wind

George MacDonald

Introduction by Poet Laureate - Carol Ann Duffy.
A touching and powerful fable of Diamond the coachman's son and his many adventures with the powerful North Wind.

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The Best of Saki

Saki

Cats who learn to talk (to the discomfiture of their owners), bad-tempered aunts who get stuck in water tanks and the world’s most disgusting breakfast cereal, ‘Filboid Studge’, are just some of the fantastical inventions that populate the stories of Saki.

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Beyond the Pale & Other Stories

William Trevor

A young man gives a pair of pilgrims a lift to a wayside statue; two strangers meet at a hotel for a mysterious assignation; holidaymakers in Northern Ireland are haunted by the past. This is the world of William Trevor, widely hailed as the modern master of short fiction.

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Birdsong

Sebastian Faulks

Set before and during the great war, "Birdsong" captures the drama of that era on both a national and a personal scale. Powerful, evocative and utterly compelling, this is literature at its finest.

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The Complete Miss Marple Short Stories

Agatha Christie

Based on 'some of Agatha Christie's grandmother's Ealing cronies . . . but far more fussy and spinsterish', Jane Marple made her debut in the 1930 novel Murder at the Vicarage, but it was in the short stories that appeared in 1932 that Miss Marple's detective skills were truly revealed.

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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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Cover Her Face

P. D. James

The perfect English country house murder mystery, Cover Her Face is an brilliant addition to the genre by one of its greatest practitioners.

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Crime Stories from the Strand

This collection of 19 crime stories forms a hall of fame for the greatest writers and characters from the golden age of detective fiction and is so popular that it is now in its sixth printing.

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Bleak House

Charles Dickens

Populated by some of Dickens’ most memorable characters, Bleak House (1852-3) is a devastating satire on the evils of the English legal system and the state of Victorian society.

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