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In this work the plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, but possesses an indomitable spirit, a sharp wit and great courage. She is forced to battle against the exigencies of a cruel guardian, a harsh employer and a rigid social order which circumscribes her life and position. Introducti...

The prophecy had come true. The world spun. Tidal waves lashed the planet, & a new ice age dawned. The few survivors of a once great empire struggled to hold their ground against the rising barbarian tide. But a terrible evil threatened everything.

This novel of courage, defiance and human dignity is John Steinbeck's famous story of how the German invasion of World War 2 came to a small Norwegian town, and how the inhabitants met their conquerors.

In Roger Jon Ellory's debut novel a man who is on death row after being condemned for killing his best friend tells his story to a priest.

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel, where she will spend the rest of her days. She encounters the handsome young writer, Ludo, and learns that even the old can fall in love.

The childlike Lennie is lost without his guardian, George, who feels his slow-witted friend has been delivered into his keeping. Bound by their fragile dream of owning land where they will 'belong', their paradisial future is soon shattered.

Four different people are named in a will - Delia, an opera singer robbed of her voice by illness; George, an idealistic scientist; Marjorie, desperately poor & unable to dislodge her writer's block; & Lucius, whose personal life is in chaos. This is a tale of four strangers summoned to a grand b...

First published in France in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability - the first, to the process of ageing, in the second the loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.