Posts Tagged ‘fiction’
The Great Gatsby
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach … Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes with bright young things drinking, dancing and debating his mysterious character. For Gatsby – young, handsome, fabulously rich…
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A beautiful new edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby to coincide with the release of Baz Luhrmann’s film. ‘There was music from my neighbour’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.’ Everybody…
Read MoreThe Grown Up
Gillian Flynn’s Edgar Award-winning homage to the classic ghost story, published for the first time as a standalone A canny young woman is struggling to survive by perpetrating various levels of mostly harmless fraud. On a rainy April morning, she is reading auras at Spiritual Palms when Susan Burke walks in. A keen observer of…
Read MoreHere I Am
God asked Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, and Abraham replied obediently, “Here I am.” This is the story of a fracturing family in a moment of crisis. Over the course of three weeks in present-day Washington, D.C., three sons watch their parents’ marriage falter and their family home fall apart. Meanwhile, a large…
Read MoreFall of Giants
The first novel in The Century Trilogy follows the fates of five interrelated familiesNAmerican, German, Russian, English, and WelshNas they move through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage.
Read MoreThe Clan of the Cave Bear
Ayla, an injured and orphaned child adopted by a primitive tribe, carries within her the seed and hope of humankind in this epic of survival and destiny set at the dawn of prehistory. Reissue.
Read MoreThe Valley of Horses
After being cast out of the Clan that had adopted her as a child by the new leader, Ayla shares a lonely valley with a herd of steppe ponies, harnesses their power, and discovers speech and love with Jondalar, a member of her own race. Reissue.
Read MorePride and Prejudice
With its sparkling wit, clever heroine and moving love story, Pride and Prejudice is an immaculate comedy of manners, and Jane Austen’s most popular novel. Lizzy Bennet finds eligible bachelor Darcy arrogant the first time she meets him, and when she hears he has been meddling in her family’s affairs is determined to dislike him…
Read MorePersuasion
The Penguin English Library Edition of Persuasion by Jane Austen ‘Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth; and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect’ Persuasion, Jane Austen’s last novel, is a moving, masterly and elegiac love story tinged with the heartache of…
Read MoreNorthanger Abbey
To coincide with the launch of The Austen Project this is a pocket-sized hardback collection of Jane Austen’s timeless novels – perfect for Austen fans everywhere. ‘Northanger Abbey! These were thrilling words, and wound up Catherine’s feelings to the highest point of ecstasy.’ Considered the most light-hearted and satirical of Austen’s novels, Northanger Abbey tells…
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