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With his trusty Sancho Panza, a deposed communist mayor, Rocinante, an old motor car and a terrific sense of his own righteousness, Monsignor Quixote sets off on his adventures through modern Spain, echoing his forerunner's footsteps.

Author, dramatist and satirist, Gogol deeply influenced Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. This volume includes his most admired short fiction, 'The Diary of a Madman', and his most famous drama, 'The Government Inspect...

Stanley and Rose live in Rawlinson Road, Islington, surrounded by younger, smarter families like the Orams. Encroached on by age and affluence, the only answer to their problems, in spite of everything, lies in their fierce and prickly devotion to each other.

It is 1945 and men and women prepare to return to the lives they left behind in 1939. But the world, for most of them, has changed beyond all recognition. Everyone has been buffeted by the winds of war - now they face the tempestuous tides of peace.

Charles Wenmouth is a young lay preacher in 1870s Cornwall who finds himself drawn to a local blind girl by the faith she maintains despite her disability, but after one Sabbath spent preaching, he returns to his village to hear devastating news. Will he face the doubt that has long threatened to...

Cora Bender killed a man. But why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the throat, again and again, until she was pulled off his body?

This is a new, updated edition of BAAF's popular and comprehensive guide to the whys, whens and hows of telling the truth about an adopted child's origins. It conforms to legal requirements in England, Wales and Scotland, and includes illustrations and helpful case studies.

When Eloise receives news that her husband's ship has been lost at sea she wonders how she is ever going to manage. With two young children, rent overdue and almost nothing to live on, she has no alternative but to turn to his estranged family for help. Court is also the author of 'Mermaids Singi...

This is just one of Leslie Thomas's novels being reissued with a new jacket. Edward Richardson, who lives in a sleepy village scarcely beyond Heathrow, jets around the world faster than his marriage can tolerate.

A powerful story of love and deception set against the true events of one of the most secret and terrifying of Heinrich Himmler's wartime projects - the Lebensborn Nazi breeding programme.