One Good Deed: Aloysius Archer Book 1 by David Baldacci
Category: Fiction | Series: Aloysius Archer
In this fast-paced historical thriller, #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci introduces Archer, a WWII veteran forced to investigate a small-town murder -- or risk returning to prison.It's 1949. When war veteran Aloysius Archer is released from Carderock Prison, he is sent to Poca City on ...Show more
The Trial (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Franz Kafka
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Through tight dialogue and absurd settings Franz Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early twentieth-century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, ...Show more
The Iliad (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Homer (Translated by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf and Ernest Myers)
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Iliad has had a far-reaching impact on Western literature and culture, inspiring writers, artists and classical composers across the ages. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful boo ...Show more
The Sin Eater by Megan Campisi
Category: Fiction
A Sin Eater's duty is a necessary evil: she hears the final private confessions of the dying, eats their sins as a funeral rite, and so guarantees their souls access to heaven. It is always women who eat sins - since it was Eve who first ate the Forbidden Fruit - and every town has at least one, not tha ...Show more
The Seven Sisters (#1) by Lucinda Riley
Category: Fiction | Series: The Seven Sisters (#1) | Reading Level: very good
Maia D'Apliese and her five sisters gather together at their childhood home, "Atlantis"-a fabulous, secluded castle that their beloved father, the elusive billionaire they call Pa Salt, has died.Maia and her sister were all adopted by him as babies and, discovering he has already been buried at sea, eac ...Show more
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Category: Fiction | Series: Wolf Hall 1 | Reading Level: very good
From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ‘Every bit as good as they said it was’ Observer ‘Terrific’ Margaret Atwood ‘As soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stop’ The Times In Wolf Hall, one of our very best writers ...Show more
Bring Up The Bodies (#2 Wolf Hall) by Hilary Mantel
Category: Fiction | Series: Wolf Hall 2 | Reading Level: very good
An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. ‘Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chi ...Show more
Here We Are by Graham Swift
Category: Fiction
The extraordinary new novel from the winner of the Booker Prize It is Brighton, 1959, and the theatre at the end of the pier is having its best summer season in years. Ronnie, a brilliant young magician, and Evie, his dazzling assistant, are top of the bill, drawing audiences each night. Meanwhile, Jack ...Show more
Selected Poems of William Wordsworth (Macmillan Collector's Library) by William Wordsworth
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A gorgeous gift edition of William Wordsworth's greatest poems, with an introduction by Peter Harness.A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language which revolutionised poetry.Selected Poems brings together some of Words ...Show more
Uncle Tom's Cabin (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Category: Classics
Uncle Tom's CabinBy Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Prince and the Pauper (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Mark Twain
Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Tom Canty, youngest son of a poor family living in Offal Court, London, has always aspired to a better life, encouraged by the local priest. Loitering around the palace gates one day, he sees a prince (the Prince of Wales - Edward VI). Coming too close in his intense excitement, Tom is nearly caught and ...Show more
The Good, the Bad and the Little Bit Stupid by Marina Lewycka
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A laugh-out-loud novel about family, bank fraud and Britain from the bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. George Pantis is in a pickle. After walking out on his wife Rosie on Referendum night 2016 to shack up with hairdresser 'Brexit Brenda' next door, he thinks he's got it ma ...Show more