After adventures in the South Seas Captain Aubrey and Stephen Maturin return to England. However, their homecoming is far from tranquil with Maturin beset by family problems and Aubrey almost immediately dispatched to West Africa to fight the slave trade, a noble mission which may have a concealed purpose. The seventeenth instalment of the Aubrey- Maturin series.
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Captain Jack and the Surprise, give chase to an American privateer in the treacherous waters off South America. With the eruption of a submarine volcano, all is almost lost, jeopardising not only the lives of the crew but Maturin's secret mission in the Andes. The sixteenth instalment of Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series.
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Before Rome conquered the known world, the people of Carthage reigned supreme. Using archeological findings, ancient texts and legend, Serge Lancel creates a picture of a civilisation so beautiful and powerful that the Romans burnt it to the ground so it could never challenge them again.
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The magical land of Narnia is a world like no other. With talking animals, mythical creatures, the evil White Witch and the mighty lion Aslan, Lewis's magnificent fantasy series has captivated children for generations. Now reissued in a striking new binding.
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Princess, serpents, ogres and talking animals spring from the page in this beautifully illustrated collection of fairy tales.
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Dickens's story of the French aristocrat Charles Darnay and dissolute barrister Sydney Carton, drawn together by the love of the same woman, reaches its memorable climax in the bloody cauldron of Paris during the Terror.
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Populated by some of Dickens’s 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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At the heart of this collection is one of Charles Dickens's best-loved works: A Christmas Carol. This and his other seasonal novellas have become part of Christmas itself, reminding us of simple family pleasures and the value of goodwill.
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Dickens’s famously autobiographical novel tells of a rootless orphan who overcomes poverty to become a famous novelist.
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In one of Dickens's best-loved and most enduring novels, written in 1860-1 at the height of his powers, the hero finds that 'great expectations' are not enough when it comes to the real business of living.
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When the starving boys of the workhouse draw lots to decide who shall ask for extra gruel, it is Oliver who pulls the short straw. Banished by Mr Bumble, apprenticed to an undertaker, and adopted into Fagin's den of thieves, Oliver somehow survives, his essential innocence and goodness intact.
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The Pickwick Papers (1836-7) launched Dickens's career in riotous style. A rollicking romp through the coaching England of Dickens’s youth, in which the adventures of Mr Pickwick and his friends never fail to delight.
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Often called the golden age of English culture, the Elizabethan age saw an unprecedented explosion of creativity in the arts and commerce. In this rich portrait of the time, Rowse examines English society under Elizabeth and the lasting influence of the era, still resonating today.
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Acclaimed science writer Simon Singh brilliantly reconstructs one of the greatest intellectual struggles in the history of mathematics - the 350-year search to find the proof for Fermat’s Last Theorem.
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First published in 1862, ‘Goblin Market’ is an extended poem about two young sisters who hear goblin merchants hawking their wares. Lizzie urges caution (‘Their offers should not charm us,/Their evil gifts would harm us’) but Laura eats the forbidden fruit and falls into a frenzy, then a decline from which her sister must save her.
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