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'What better books to raise the spirits than the gentle, insightful Irish tales of Maeve Binchy?' HELLO! Magazine _____________________________________________ TROUBLE IS BREWING FOR THIS CIRCLE OF FRIENDS Generous-hearted Benny Hogan and the elfi...

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With a new introduction by Lorraine Kelly, Sunday Times bestselling author of THE ISLAND SWIMMER 'This is Binchy at her best' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'A brilliant storyteller' GRAHAM NORTON Ria and Marilyn have never met, but they're about to switch lives ...

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*** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** 'One of Scanlan's great strengths is her gift for writing fully rounded characters, and this is Scanlan at her very best'¿Irish Independent When the honeymoon is over, real life begins... Newly married Deb...

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Previously published as¿The Liberation of Brigid Dunne *** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER *** ¿ One explosive family reunion. A lifetime of secrets revealed.Spanning generations and covering seismic shifts in the lives of women, A Family Reunion is a c...

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In Água Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything from life and time to perfume and sleep are strange and hypnotic in their emotional power and have been a huge influenc...

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'Full of the energies of discord - sibling rivalry, greed, ambition, illicit sexual passion and vanity' Margaret Drabble Jane Austen's profound, ambiguous third novel is the story of Fanny Price, who is accustomed to being the poor relation at Man...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Dracula by Bram Stoker 'Alone with the dead! I dare not go out, for I can hear the low howl of the wolf through the broken window' A chilling masterpiece of the horror genre, Dracula also illuminated dark cor...

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Millions of people travel on London's tube every day, yet we usually give our fellow passengers only a cursory glance. But each one of these nameless passengers has their own story to tell. At Notting Hill, the mysterious secretary, harbouring her...

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*** THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR *** 'An entertaining saga' Marie Claire Francesca Kirwan has been the perfect wife and mother for years, but when her husband Mark leaves his mobile phone behind, what she discovers tears her world a...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. Wells 'That black figure, with its eyes of fire, struck down through all my adult thoughts and feelings, and for a moment the forgotten horrors of childhood came back to m...

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Young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris to join the King's elite guards, but almost immediately finds he is duelling with some of the very men he has come to swear allegiance to - Porthos, Athos and Aramis, inseparable friends: the Three Musketeers. Soo...

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'She has examined the heart of man with an understanding ... that no other writer can hope to surpass' Tennessee Williams Often cited as one of the great novels of twentieth-century American fiction, Carson McCullers' prodigious first novel was pu...

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'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret Drabble To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys, whose annual summer holiday in Scotland falls under the s...

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Considered by André Gide to be one of the ten greatest novels in the French language, Émile Zola's Germinal is a brutal depiction of the poverty of a mining community in northern France Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever bu...

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' The Penguin English Library Edition of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë 'She looked so like herself that I knew not how to bear it' In this sensational, hard-hitting and passionate tale...

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Now a major film directed by Armando Iannucci, starring Dev Patel, Tilda Swinton, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi and Ben Whishaw Dickens's epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age stories in literature. It chronicles David Copperfiel...

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The Way We Live Now is Anthony Trollope's radical exploration of the dangers associated with speculative capitalism, edited with an introduction and notes by Frank Kermode in Penguin Classics. Augustus Melmotte is a fraudulent foreign financier wh...

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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE PERFECT COUPLE, NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX SERIES *** 'Hilderbrand's books keep getting better and better' Bookreporter 'The queen regent of the easy-breezy summer novel' New York Post *** Secret lives and new loves eme...

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Both heartwarming and meditative, The Cat Inside explores not only the personal relationship between Burroughs and cats, but the deeper relationship of cats with mankind, which Burroughs traces back to the Egyptians. This book of moving and witty ...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne 'Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss' Fiercely romantic and hugely...

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'Warm-hearted and wise' WOMAN & HOME 'Like having a great gossip with your best friends' MARIAN KEYES One surprise proposal. One moment that will change everything. At the top of the Eiffel Tower, a young man proposes to his girlfriend, cheered on...

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This is an all new version of the popular PARALLEL TEXT series, containing eight pieces of contemporary fiction in the original French and in English translation. Including stories by Bolanger, Cotnoir, Le Clezio and Germain, this volume gives afa...

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Three women. Three different stages of life. United by one thing: the chance to start again. An independent.ie '50 hottest summer reads of 2021' pick! 'Hogan presciently taps into the pursuit of these pandemic times' - RTÉ 'Charming... Full of pat...

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An eyecatching new package for a beloved classic by the Sunday Times, multi-million copy bestselling author Charity Stratton is just fifteen when her world shatters. After losing her parents in a terrible fire, she's separated from her beloved sib...

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'Excellent' DAILY TELEGRAPH 'A true epic . . . this stunning tale has been called the Australian Gone With the Wind' DAILY MAIL 'One of the biggest-selling, most widely read books in the history of fiction' OBSERVER In the rugged Australian Outbac...

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Let international bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweep you away with this enthralling, evocative and emotional saga of one woman's quest to come to terms with a new life. If you like Victoria Hislop, Lucinda Riley and Fiona Valpy, you'll lo...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Dubliners by James Joyce 'Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely in my ears ... But now it sounded to me like the name of some male...

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The Penguin English Library Edition of Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell "Eh, miss, but that be a rare young lady! She do have such pretty coaxing ways ..." Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to...

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Published in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel was a powerful indictment of slavery in America. Describing the many trials and eventual escape to freedom of the long-suffering, good-hearted slave Uncle Tom, it aimed to show how Christian love ca...

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One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' The Penguin English Library Edition of Middlemarch by George Eliot 'She did not know then that it was Love who had come to her briefly as in a dream before awaking, with the hues of morning on hi...

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