Angel (film tie-in)

Elizabeth Taylor

Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of romance, escaping the drabness of provincial life. She knows she is different, that she is destined...

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Available 07/08/2008

Hungry Hill

Daphne du Maurier Introduced by Nina Auerbach

‘I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten . . . but this hill will be standing still to confound you.’ So curses Morty Donovan when ‘Copper John’...

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The Diary of a Provincial Lady

E M Delafield Introduced by Jilly Cooper

With a cover design by Cath Kidston

Hardback

The Magic Toyshop

Angela Carter Introduced by Carmen Callil

Cover design by Jacqueline Groag

Hardback

A Far Cry from Kensington

Muriel Spark Introduced by Ali Smith

With a cover design by Lucienne Day

Hardback

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zora Neale Hurston Introduced by Zadie Smith

Cover design by Harlem renaissance artist Lois Mailou Jones

Hardback

A Game of Hide And Seek

Elizabeth Taylor Introduced by Elizabeth Jane Howard

With a cover design by Celia Birtwell

Hardback

Catch 22

Joseph Heller Read by Trevor White

At the heart of Joseph Heller's bestselling novel, first published in 1961, is a satirical indicement of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is a...

Audiobook (CD): £25.00

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Jane and Prudence

Barbara Pym Introduced by Jilly Cooper

Over the years, as Barbara Pym replaced Nancy Mitford, Georgette Heyer, even Jane Austen, as my most loved author, I devoured all her books, but JANE AND PRUDENCE remains my favourite. Even an...

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Loitering with Intent

Muriel Spark Introduced by Mark Lawson

Art, reality and the strange ways the two imitate one another are at the core of Muriel Spark's delightful Loitering with Intent, first published in 1981.

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Symposium

Muriel Spark Introduced by Ian Rankin

'This is the story of a dinner party, a knot of people with pasts and connections which at first seem few but are later found to be many … The prevailing mood is urbane: the wine is poured, the...

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The Friendly Young Ladies

Mary Renault

Elsie, sheltered and naive, is seventeen and unhappy. Stifled by life with her bickering parents in a bleak Cornish village, she falls in love with the first presentable young man she meets ...

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