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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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 Big Sleep
Raymond Chandler
When the oil millionaire General Sternwood finds out his daughter is being blackmailed, he hires P.I. Philip Marlowe. But finding the blackmailer turns out to be just the start of this ultimate noir mystery.
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Blackmailers Don't Shoot
Raymond Chandler
These 13 short stories span the full range of Chandler’s career, from ‘Blackmailers Don’t Shoot’ first published in 1933 to ‘English Summer’, a black and yet oddly tender story of adultery, cruelty and murder published posthumously in 1976.
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Trouble is My Business and other stories
Raymond Chandler
The mood is dark, the atmosphere electric, the voice unmistakable - in his stiletto-sharp thrillers, Raymond Chandler changed the face of crime fiction forever.
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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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Nostromo
Joseph Conrad
In the mining town of Sulaco, no-one is safe from the corrupting effect of silver – certainly not Senor Gould who hopes to bring stability by meddling in politics, and not even the 'incorruptible' patriot Nostromo in search of heroism.
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The Secret Agent
Joseph Conrad
Bleak and darkly comic, the spies, terrorists, anarchists and agents provocateurs who inhabit the seedy underworld of the early 20th-century London makes a disturbing milieu in which Verloc's ultimate undoing becomes inevitable.
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Victory
Joseph Conrad
Isolated on his island and wrecked in business, Axel Heyst hardly seems to care that he has inspired the enmity of the hotel-owner on the neighbouring island, until he meets Lena and is inspired to attempt her rescue.
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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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