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Under the Greenwood Tree

by Thomas Hardy ...

Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy is a tender and richly atmospheric novel that captures the quiet beauty of rural English life in the nineteenth century. As one of Hardy's earliest works, this pastoral romance offers readers a gentle yet insightful portrait of village traditions, community bonds, and the subtle tensions between old customs and modern change. Set in the idyllic countryside ... Read more

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Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy is a tender and richly atmospheric novel that captures the quiet beauty of rural English life in the nineteenth century. As one of Hardy's earliest works, this pastoral romance offers readers a gentle yet insightful portrait of village traditions, community bonds, and the subtle tensions between old customs and modern change. Set in the idyllic countryside
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The Burial Witch

A Threadneedle Novella

by Cari Thomas ...

Series series Threadneedle
An enchanting new novella set in the magical world of Sunday Times bestseller Threadneedle and The Times bestseller ShadowstitchAt home one memorable summer, Miranda unearths a mysterious suitcase in her attic that once belonged to her late grandmother. Inside, she finds a strange and unopenable wooden box.Determined to discover what’s inside, she ends up enlisting the help of Maya, the owner of a ... Read more

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An enchanting new novella set in the magical world of Sunday Times bestseller Threadneedle and The Times bestseller ShadowstitchAt home one memorable summer, Miranda unearths a mysterious suitcase in her attic that once belonged to her late grandmother. Inside, she finds a strange and unopenable wooden box.Determined to discover what’s inside, she ends up enlisting the help of Maya, the owner of a
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On the Origin of Time

The Sunday Times bestselling physics book exploring 'Stephen Hawking’s biggest legacy'

by Thomas Hertog ...

'A wonderful book about Stephen Hawking's biggest legacy' Spectator'Truly mind-stretching... Immensely rewarding' The Times'This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary individual, the creative process, and the scope and limits of our current understanding of the cosmos' Sir Martin ReesStephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on ... Read more

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'A wonderful book about Stephen Hawking's biggest legacy' Spectator'Truly mind-stretching... Immensely rewarding' The Times'This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary individual, the creative process, and the scope and limits of our current understanding of the cosmos' Sir Martin ReesStephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on
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Harold Wilson

The Winner

by Nick Thomas-Symonds ...

Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten, Labour's greatest ever election winner. How did he do it - and at what cost?Critics then and now have painted him as an opportunistic political ... Read more

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Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten, Labour's greatest ever election winner. How did he do it - and at what cost?Critics then and now have painted him as an opportunistic political
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The Olive Branch

A gorgeous summer romance set in Italy

by Jo Thomas ...

Can love bloom in the groves of Italy?'I loved it!' Katie FfordeEscape to Italy with The Olive Branch - the irresistible summer novel from Jo Thomas, author of ebook bestseller The Oyster Catcher.You can buy almost anything online these days. For Ruthie Collins, it was an Italian farmhouse.Yet as she battles with a territorial goat and torrential rain just to get through the door of her new ... Read more

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Can love bloom in the groves of Italy?'I loved it!' Katie FfordeEscape to Italy with The Olive Branch - the irresistible summer novel from Jo Thomas, author of ebook bestseller The Oyster Catcher.You can buy almost anything online these days. For Ruthie Collins, it was an Italian farmhouse.Yet as she battles with a territorial goat and torrential rain just to get through the door of her new
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The Big Book of Christmas:

140+ authors and 400+ novels, novellas, stories, poems & carols (Sanctuary Publishing)

by Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Dickens, Louisa May Alcott, George MacDonald, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne Brontë, Willa Cather, G. K. Chesterton, F. Marion Crawford, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, The Brothers Grimm, Thomas Hardy, Nathaniel Hawthorne, O. Henry, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Washington Irving, James Joyce, Rudyard Kipling, H. P. Lovecraft, John Milton, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Saki, Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Leo Tolstoy, Anthony. Trollope, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov, L. Frank Baum, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, Henry Van Dyke, Selma Lagerlöf, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Clement C. Moore, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats, William Shakespeare, Andrew Lang ...

If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs.Inside you'll find:· Novels, ... Read more

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If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it!This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs.Inside you'll find:· Novels,
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The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. A Victorian London Exposé of Exploitation, Investigative Journalism, and Age of Consent Reform

by William Thomas Stead, Laurel Emberford ...

The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon is a landmark of Victorian investigative journalism, a searing exposé of child prostitution, sexual exploitation, and institutional indifference in late-nineteenth-century London. Written in a melodramatic, biblical, and deliberately sensational style, it fuses reportage, moral indictment, and gothic urban imagery to portray the metropolis as a modern Babylon. ... Read more

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The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon is a landmark of Victorian investigative journalism, a searing exposé of child prostitution, sexual exploitation, and institutional indifference in late-nineteenth-century London. Written in a melodramatic, biblical, and deliberately sensational style, it fuses reportage, moral indictment, and gothic urban imagery to portray the metropolis as a modern Babylon.
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In Search of Enlightenment: 50 Spiritual Masterworks

Fifty Timeless Writings on Mysticism, Moral Freedom, Suffering, Grace, and Inner Transformation

by Leo Tolstoy, William Blake, Kahlil Gibran, John of the Cross, Saint Augustine, U. G. Krishnamurti, C. H. Spurgeon, Ignatius of Loyola, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Thomas Browne, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, St. Teresa of Ávila, Thomas à Kempis, Thomas More, Blaise Pascal, George Müller, Ludwig Feuerbach, Jonathan Edwards, Evelyn Underhill, Charles Spurgeon, G. K. Chesterton, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, George MacDonald, Miguel de Unamuno, Reynold A. Nicholson, Frances Ridley Havergal, H. Emilie Cady, Anne Catherine Emmerich, Henry Scougal, Florence Scovel Shinn, Andrew Murray, Henry Drummond, Epictetus, Mahatma Gandhi, William James, Emanuel Swedenborg, William Walker Atkinson, Joseph Benner, Charles Fillmore, Edwin Sir Arnold, Ignatius of Antioch, John Donne, John Wesley, Helena Blavatsky ...

In Search of Enlightenment: 50 Spiritual Masterworks gathers a capacious cross-cultural archive of religious reflection, mystical testimony, philosophical inquiry, devotional counsel, and literary meditation. Moving among aphorism, sermon, autobiography, visionary prose, theological argument, and poetic revelation, the volume stages enlightenment not as a single doctrine but as a continuing ... Read more

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In Search of Enlightenment: 50 Spiritual Masterworks gathers a capacious cross-cultural archive of religious reflection, mystical testimony, philosophical inquiry, devotional counsel, and literary meditation. Moving among aphorism, sermon, autobiography, visionary prose, theological argument, and poetic revelation, the volume stages enlightenment not as a single doctrine but as a continuing
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The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy, Golden Deer Classics ...

The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard—having gained power and success as the mayor—finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a rich, psychological ... Read more

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The Mayor of Casterbridge opens with a shocking and haunting scene: In a drunken rage, Michael Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a visiting sailor at a local fair. When they return to Casterbridge some nineteen years later, Henchard—having gained power and success as the mayor—finds he cannot erase the past or the guilt that consumes him. The Mayor of Casterbridge is a rich, psychological
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Tropic Of Ruislip

by Leslie Thomas ...

TROPIC OF RUISLIP is a sage for life on a modern executive housing estate, seething with the fears, snobbereis, frustrations and lusts of well-heeled young couples trundling uneasily towards middle age. ... Read more

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TROPIC OF RUISLIP is a sage for life on a modern executive housing estate, seething with the fears, snobbereis, frustrations and lusts of well-heeled young couples trundling uneasily towards middle age.
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The Best British Detective Books: 270+ Murder Mysteries, Crime Stories & Suspense Thrillers

270+ Classic British Mysteries, Locked Rooms, and Golden Age Sleuths

by Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Bramah, Arthur Morrison, Thomas W. Hanshew, Edgar Wallace, J. S. Fletcher, R. Austin Freeman, G. K. Chesterton, H. C. McNeile, Victor L. Whitechurch, Annie Haynes, Rober Barr ...

The Best British Detective Books gathers more than 270 murder mysteries, crime tales, and suspense thrillers into a capacious survey of British popular fiction's formative detective tradition. Ranging from puzzle-centered investigations and atmospheric urban crime stories to espionage-inflected suspense and tales of moral ambiguity, the volume traces the genre's movement from Victorian sensation ... Read more

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The Best British Detective Books gathers more than 270 murder mysteries, crime tales, and suspense thrillers into a capacious survey of British popular fiction's formative detective tradition. Ranging from puzzle-centered investigations and atmospheric urban crime stories to espionage-inflected suspense and tales of moral ambiguity, the volume traces the genre's movement from Victorian sensation
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Far From the Madding Crowd

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Macmillan Collector's Library
Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy’s novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold ... Read more

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Far From the Madding Crowd was the first of Hardy’s novels to give the name of Wessex to the landscape of south-west England and is set against the backdrop of the unchanging natural cycle of the year. The story both upholds and questions rural values with a startlingly modern sensibility.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold
... Read more

Also available as: Audiobooks