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Alison Brackenbury's poems are haunted by horses, unseasonable love, history, hares, and unreasonable hope. Brackenbury's 'Selected Poems' begins in the almost Victorian villages of remote Lincolnshire, where her father tramped, as a ploughboy, behind great Shires and Percherons. Her acclaimed ea...

This is a collection of four novels by Anthony Burgess, featuring the poet and social critic, Enderby. These novels are a chronicle of the gross and fitfully inspired poet's triumphs despite all the obstacles in his path.

Anthony Burgess' epic work revolves around a writer, Kenneth Toomey, and the man he is linked to through family ties, Carlo Campanati, an Italian priest and a candidate for sainthood. Toomey, now in his eighties recalls the past.

Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and ill at ease, he spends his evenings surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at his local bistro. Then one day she vanishes into thin air.

There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has the victim, an outwardly austere lawyer, been on the night of his death? The troubled Gorski finds himself drawn into a mystery that takes him behind the...

A story ingeniously recounted through Roderick Macrae's memoir, trial transcripts, and newspaper reports, this book is a riveting literary thriller that will appeal to fans of Hannah Kent's 'Burial Rites'.

It is quite a shock for a seven-year-old to be whisked away from the New York streets to an English stately home and be told he is to inherit a title and a fortune. But then Little Lord Fauntleroy is a very unusual boy.

When Sara Crewe is sent back from India to school in England, she appears to have everything. However circumstances change, and when poverty strikes, she must swap dancing lessons and luxury for hard work and a room in the attic. Will she find that kindness and generosity are all the riches she t...

When Sara Crewe, the daughter of a rich and loving father, arrives at her new school in London from India, she is nicknamed the Little Princess by her classmates. When her father dies she is reduced to a life of poverty, left only with her dreams.