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Under My Skin

by Doris Lessing ...

The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of ‘The Grass is Singing’ and ‘The Golden Notebook’, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994.The first volume of Doris Lessing’s autobiography begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel in her suitcase. it ... Read more

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The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of ‘The Grass is Singing’ and ‘The Golden Notebook’, and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994.The first volume of Doris Lessing’s autobiography begins with her childhood in Africa and ends on her arrival in London in 1949 with the typescript of her first novel in her suitcase. it
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Semicolon

How a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life

by Cecelia Watson ...

‘Fascinating… I loved this book; I really did’ David Crystal, SpectatorA biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules.Cecelia Watson used to be obsessive about grammar rules. But then she began teaching. And that was when she realized that strict rules aren’t always the best way of teaching people how to make ... Read more

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‘Fascinating… I loved this book; I really did’ David Crystal, SpectatorA biography of a much misunderstood punctuation mark and a call to arms in favour of clear expression and against stifling grammar rules.Cecelia Watson used to be obsessive about grammar rules. But then she began teaching. And that was when she realized that strict rules aren’t always the best way of teaching people how to make
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Cop Killer

by Maj Sjöwall, Per Wahlöö ...

Series Book 9 - The Martin Beck series
The thrilling ninth classic installment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.Widely recognised as the greatest masterpieces of crime fiction ever written, these are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre.Written in the 1960s, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo – a husband and wife ... Read more

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The thrilling ninth classic installment in the Martin Beck detective series from the 1960s – the novels that have inspired all Scandinavian crime fiction.Widely recognised as the greatest masterpieces of crime fiction ever written, these are the original detective stories that pioneered the detective genre.Written in the 1960s, they are the work of Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo – a husband and wife
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The Sense of Style

The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century

by Steven Pinker ...

Bad writing can't be blamed on the Internet, or on 'the kids today'. Good writing has always been hard: a performance requiring pretense, empathy, and a drive for coherence. In The Sense of Style, cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for the 21st century. What do skilful writers know about the link between syntax and ... Read more

$17.99 NZD

Bad writing can't be blamed on the Internet, or on 'the kids today'. Good writing has always been hard: a performance requiring pretense, empathy, and a drive for coherence. In The Sense of Style, cognitive scientist and linguist Steven Pinker uses the latest scientific insights to bring us a style and usage guide for the 21st century. What do skilful writers know about the link between syntax and
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The Homecoming of Samuel Lake

by Jenny Wingfield ...

A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café.It's 1956 and Samuel Lake, a handsome preacher, is voted out of his ministry by yet another congregation, disappointed by his relentless pleas for them to live more charitable lives. Out of options and out of pocket, Samuel and his family are forced to move in with their Arkansas in-laws, ... Read more

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A bewitching debut novel in the vein of the much-loved classic Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Café.It's 1956 and Samuel Lake, a handsome preacher, is voted out of his ministry by yet another congregation, disappointed by his relentless pleas for them to live more charitable lives. Out of options and out of pocket, Samuel and his family are forced to move in with their Arkansas in-laws,
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The Mayor of Casterbridge

by Thomas Hardy ...

Series series Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.’When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become ... Read more

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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘The movements of his mind seemed to tend to the thought that some power was working against him.’When Henchard, an out-of-work hay-trusser gets drunk and sells his wife at a country fair, his life will never be the same. Eighteen years later, his wife and daughter return to Casterbridge to find that Henchard has become
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In Tasmania

by Nicholas Shakespeare ...

A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer’s discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wanted to live. He didn’t know then that his ancestor was the corrupt and colourful Anthony Fenn Kemp ... Read more

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A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer’s discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past.In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where he wanted to live. He didn’t know then that his ancestor was the corrupt and colourful Anthony Fenn Kemp
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The Hunchback of Notre-Dame

by Victor Hugo ...

Series series Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.’Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo’s take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the hunchbacked, grotesque bellringer, Quasimodo. Rejected by Parisian society ... Read more

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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.’Set in medieval Paris, against the backdrop of the brooding Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Hugo’s take on the classic story of Beauty and the Beast tells of the hunchbacked, grotesque bellringer, Quasimodo. Rejected by Parisian society
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The Secret Garden

by Frances Hodgson Burnett ...

Series series Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.'Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant's brother begins her adventure and it is through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled ... Read more

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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.'Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.'Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant's brother begins her adventure and it is through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin

by Harriet Beecher Stowe ...

Series series Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘One thing is certain, – that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.’Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sentimental and moral tale of slaves attempting to ... Read more

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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘One thing is certain, – that there is a mustering among the masses, the world over; and there is a dis irae coming on, sooner or later.’Viewed by many as fuelling the abolitionist movement of the 1850s and laying the groundwork for the Civil War, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s sentimental and moral tale of slaves attempting to
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Silas Marner

by George Eliot ...

Series series Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.’Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community ... Read more

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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.’Set in the agricultural town of Raveloe in the English countryside, Silas Marner is a tragic figure. Exiled from a religious community
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The Woman in White

by Wilkie Collins ...

Series series Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.’One of the earliest works of ‘detective’ fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous ... Read more

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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.’One of the earliest works of ‘detective’ fiction with a narrative woven together from multiple characters, Wilkie Collins partly based his infamous
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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton ...

Series series Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.'I want – I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.’Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts ... Read more

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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.'I want – I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that – categories like that – won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.’Newland Archer, a successful and charming young lawyer conducts
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Madame Bovary

by Gustave Flaubert ...

Series series Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘…for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.’Married to Charles, a provincial doctor, Emma Bovary yearns for a more glamorous life. Disenchanted with her husband and seeking an escape from their dull ... Read more

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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘…for her, life was as cold as an attic with a window looking to the north, and ennui, like a spider, was silently spinning its shadowy web in every cranny of her heart.’Married to Charles, a provincial doctor, Emma Bovary yearns for a more glamorous life. Disenchanted with her husband and seeking an escape from their dull
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Essential Oils Beauty Secrets Reloaded: How To Make Beauty Products At Home for Skin, Hair & Body Care -A Step by Step Guide & 70 Simple Recipes for Any Skin Type and Hair Type

by Janet Evans ...

Essential Oils Are a Natural and Effective Way to Look beautiful and claim your perfect health! Do you want to find out how to create a healthier lifestyle for yourself and your family by using essential oils? Essential Oils Beauty Secrets Reloaded: How To Make Beauty Products At Home For Skin, Hair & Body Care Step by Step Guide is one of the most complete book on the subject, especially for the ... Read more

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Essential Oils Are a Natural and Effective Way to Look beautiful and claim your perfect health! Do you want to find out how to create a healthier lifestyle for yourself and your family by using essential oils? Essential Oils Beauty Secrets Reloaded: How To Make Beauty Products At Home For Skin, Hair & Body Care Step by Step Guide is one of the most complete book on the subject, especially for the
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Little Book Of Tips For Descriptive Writing

by Patti Roberts ...

This book is a gem, if only for the list of creative words Patti had generously put together, to save the budding writer the time and effort of having to do so.Thanks Patti. Jeremy Poole.Includes Bonus reading includes Writing Tips from Authors.Participating Authors.David Bishop - The WomanSuzy Turner - The Ghost Of Josiah GrimshawElla Medler - Blood Is Power.Kenneth Hoss - Deadly Storm.Patricia ... Read more

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This book is a gem, if only for the list of creative words Patti had generously put together, to save the budding writer the time and effort of having to do so.Thanks Patti. Jeremy Poole.Includes Bonus reading includes Writing Tips from Authors.Participating Authors.David Bishop - The WomanSuzy Turner - The Ghost Of Josiah GrimshawElla Medler - Blood Is Power.Kenneth Hoss - Deadly Storm.Patricia
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How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised

A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines

by Thomas C. Foster ...

Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding.While books can be ... Read more

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Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to a diverse range of writing and literary devices that enrich these works, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding.While books can be
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Pride and Prejudice

by Jane Austen ...

She can't stand him. He can't forget her. Love wasn't part of the plan. When spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets the proud and enigmatic Mr. Darcy, sparks fly—and not the romantic kind. As misunderstandings, social pressures, and family chaos swirl around them, both must confront their pride, question their assumptions, and discover feelings neither expected. Their journey from friction to affection ... Read more

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She can't stand him. He can't forget her. Love wasn't part of the plan. When spirited Elizabeth Bennet meets the proud and enigmatic Mr. Darcy, sparks fly—and not the romantic kind. As misunderstandings, social pressures, and family chaos swirl around them, both must confront their pride, question their assumptions, and discover feelings neither expected. Their journey from friction to affection
... Read more
The Complete Short Stories: The 1950s

by Brian Aldiss ...

In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss’ 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time.In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss’ 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time.Volume one takes us from his very first story – A Book in Time, published in The Bookseller in 1954 and never seen again until now – right up to his establishment ... Read more

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In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss’ 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time.In a major publishing project, all of Brian Aldiss’ 300+ short stories are being collected together for the first time.Volume one takes us from his very first story – A Book in Time, published in The Bookseller in 1954 and never seen again until now – right up to his establishment
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Secrets of the Lost Symbol

The Unauthorised Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code Sequel

by Dan Burstein, Arne de Keijzer, Sean Barrett ...

The first (unauthorised) literary companion to the mysteries behind Dan Brown's latest blockbuster, THE LOST SYMBOL. From the bestselling Secrets team.Delve into a whole new world of secret societies, ancient mysteries, hidden symbols, new-age philosophy and cutting-edge science ... Discover: the role the Freemasons played in US history; the 'real' Katherine Solomon; the true background of the ... Read more

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The first (unauthorised) literary companion to the mysteries behind Dan Brown's latest blockbuster, THE LOST SYMBOL. From the bestselling Secrets team.Delve into a whole new world of secret societies, ancient mysteries, hidden symbols, new-age philosophy and cutting-edge science ... Discover: the role the Freemasons played in US history; the 'real' Katherine Solomon; the true background of the
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The History of the Hobbit

Mr Baggins and Return to Bag-End

by John D. Rateliff, J. R. R. Tolkien ...

This revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself.The Hobbit was first published on 21 September 1937. Like its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, it is a story that ‘grew in the telling’, and many characters and plot threads ... Read more

$10.99 NZD

This revised and updated examination of how J.R.R.Tolkien came to write his original masterpiece The Hobbit includes his complete unpublished draft version of the story, together with notes and illustrations by Tolkien himself.The Hobbit was first published on 21 September 1937. Like its sequel, The Lord of the Rings, it is a story that ‘grew in the telling’, and many characters and plot threads
... Read more
Invitation To The Dance

by Hilary Spurling ...

A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character, Book, Painting and Place indices, creating a magnificent database of Powell's imagination and England's cultural landscape. This is a masterpiece ... Read more

$20.99 NZD

A unique reference book for all fans of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel, A Dance to the Music of Time, which has become a literary landmark of twentieth-century writing. More than a simple glossary, Invitation to the Dance contains extensive Character, Book, Painting and Place indices, creating a magnificent database of Powell's imagination and England's cultural landscape. This is a masterpiece
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Dracula

by Bram Stoker ...

Series series Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.’Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian Mountains. Through ... Read more

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HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics.‘We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things.’Earnest and naive solicitor Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to organise the estate of the infamous Count Dracula at his crumbling castle in the ominous Carpathian Mountains. Through
... Read more
The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays

Plays, novels, essays, and political satire from a Nobel Prize winner

by George Bernard Shaw ...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than 60 plays. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in ... Read more

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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was an Irish playwright, essayist, novelist and short story writer and wrote more than 60 plays. He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in
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