Peking Picnic

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Roundabout Way

by MacNeice, Louis

� Devlin Urquhart , an Oxford student disillusioned with his privileged past and the aesthetic life, heads for Yorkshire and a simpler identity as a gardner. He is employed by a well-connected Colonel in this capacity. But one's past does not lie down quietly, and everywhere Devlin roams, the tendrils of his former life reach out to him...

The Man on the Bridge

by BENATAR, Stephen

In the 1950s John Wilmot, an attractive teenager, has come to the capital looking for the success and wealth it can offer to those from the provinces...

The World Over

by Wharton, Edith

The World Over was Wharton's last collection of stories, and typifies her elegant style and a feminist perspective that was ahead of its time. The collection includes one of her best-loved stories Roman Fever, which features two middle-aged American women who are visiting Rome with their daughters, and whose past conceals rivalry and jealousy...

The Secret City

by Walpole, Hugh

Sent out to Russia by the Foreign Office in 1916, Jerry Lawrence and Henry Bohun find themselves unlikely travelling companions. Bohun, an immaculately dressed man who holds himself in high regard as a poet, feels the force of destiny to be a ‘great man’; Lawrence appears a rough and ready character...

On the Side of the Angels

by Miller, Betty

During World War II, Honor Carmichael and her two young children are uprooted to join Honor’s husband Colin, a dapper, small-town doctor stationed at a military hospital. She is visited by her sister Claudia, whose fiancé, Andrew, waits to be invalided out of the Army...

You Shall Know Them

by VERCORS,

Very early one morning a doctor is called out to attend the corpse of a newborn baby who has been killed, the father freely admits, by a shot of strychnine chlorhydrate which he himself has administered. The police are called, but where is the mother? �She was taken back to the Zoo yesterday.� �The Zoo? Does she work there?� �No, she lives there � The mother is not a woman, properly speaking...

Wuthering Heights

by BRONTE, Emily

Emily Bront�s only novel, Wuthering Heights, is one of the most treasured classics of 19th century fiction. Intensely passionate and sharply original, it tells the story of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff�s doomed love and its disastrous consequences. It displays Emily�s profound love of her native Yorkshire in its evocative depiction of the moors...

When I was Otherwise

by BENATAR, Stephen

This novel opens with macabre impact, as a newspaper report describes the discovery of two dead women - one of them a skeleton � in a North London house. The women are revealed to be the sister and sister-in-law of the man who shared the house...

We, The Accused

by RAYMOND, Ernest

Paul Presset cannot resist an open opportunity to rid himself of his overbearing wife. This powerful and haunting novel traces the dawn of motive in his mind, the murder, the man-hunt across England, the arrest, trial and final terrible scene of culmination. It was made into a BBC television series starring Ian Holm in 1980.

Undiscovered Country, The

by MITCHELL, Julian

Cast in the form of an autobiography, The Undiscovered Country tells the story of the intimate relationship between the narrator, Julian, and his boyhood friend Charles Humphries, a brilliant but erratic young man who fascinates Julian with his strange dark looks and his superior sophistication. �Our lives were so close,� confesses Julian, �that they are, to me, almost inextricable...

Unbearable Bassington, The

by SAKI,

A biting satire on the conceits of high society and an exquisite novel of manners, The Unbearable Bassington is also an incisive piece of writing, anticipating the early works of Evelyn Waugh, whose introduction to a previous edition is included here. Here is Edwardian society impaled on Saki's inimitable skewer.

Two People

by MILNE, A.A

Two People considers how a relationship can be made to work when the people concerned have little in common but the feelings that they shared when they fell in love. Although A.A. Milne is best known for his Winnie the Pooh stories, this novel displays his considerable skill and power as a writer of adult fiction.

These Charming People

by ARLEN, Michael

Arlen's characters are disillusioned, cynical, and witty, but in addition these stories include elements of fantasy and horror � in particular �The Ancient Sin� and �The Loquacious Lady of Lansdowne Passage�...

Tales of Sexual Desire

by GODWIN, Richard

Tolstoy wrote some of the most disquieting short stories the world has known. These three are no exception. Here, the duels and duality of man and woman are played out in tortured � and sometimes tragic � drama. Above all, the characters featured in these pages bring to life universal truths for the human condition; truths that Tolstoy weaves with an almost unrivalled skill.

State of Change, A

by GILLIATT, Penelope

When Katia leaves her native Poland for the more permissive world of 60s London, she finds herself trying to cope with situations she had never dreamed of: a dreary job on a women�s magazine, a solitary friendship with an embittered homosexual and a strange relationship with Harry and Don, old friends who are yet entirely different from each other...

Silas Marner

by ELIOT, George

Set in the 19th century Silas Marner is a classic tale of familial love and loyalty, reward and punishment, and above all humble friendships.

Scenes From the Latin Quarter

by MURGER, Henri

Originally published in 1851, Scenes from the Latin Quarter is Henri Murger's best-known work, and the novel upon which Puccini based his opera La Boh�me...

Real Charlotte, The

by SOMERVILLE,

Francie, a young, coquettish, vain and strikingly beautiful orphan, is transplanted from her working-class Dublin home to the small country town of Lismoyle to live with her older cousin, Charlotte. Socially ambitious, Charlotte schemes to bring about a marriage between Francie and Christopher Dysart, the heir to the local estate...

Potiki

by GRACE, Patricia

It is a time of fear and confusion. Dramatic events threaten the mar�. 'Potiki' is Patricia Grace's best-selling novel about a coastal community in danger. It is a work of spellbinding power that weaves myths of older times into the political realities of today.

Plain Tales from the Hills

by KIPLING, Rudyard

Set and published during the time the British Raj, a time of subalterns and tea planters, tiffin and bands playing The Roast Beef of England , the forty stories in 'Plain Tales From The Hills' are played out under an unforgiving sun, revealing the deceit, faithlessness, shallowness, despair, mistrust, hate and petty jealousies rife amongst the British inhabitants of India...

by BRIDGE, Ann

Laura Leroy inhabits the two realms of her Oxford past and Peking present. Into her current world of exotic beauty and brutality comes Vinstead, a professor from Cambridge and a reminder of all she has left behind. A picnic party leaves for the hills near Peking, and tensions rise as Laura cautiously responds to Vinstead's attraction and their fragile world comes under threat.

Non-Combatants and Others

by MACAULAY, Rose

Rose Macaulay's powerfully-felt pacifist novel of the First World War records the suffering and passion of Alix Sandomir's rebellion against the foolishness of her fellow non-combatants. The year is 1915, and Alix moves from her cousins home in the country to the suburban villa Violette with its impervious, engrossed household...

Napoleon of Notting Hill, The

by CHESTERTON, G.K

A little government minister is made King. The boroughs are suddenly declared separate kingdoms with their own city guard, banner and gathering cry and the capital is plunged into a strange type medieval warfare. Then Notting Hill declares its independence...

Mr Perrin and Mr Traill

by WALPOLE, Hugh

Many books have been written about the horror of boys public schools. Comparatively few, however, venture beyond the staff-room door to examine the suffering of masters as well as pupils. Of those that do, there is probably none that captures the wretchedness of their cloistered life more vividly than Mr Perrin and Mr Traill...

Messer Marco Polo

by BYRNNE. Donn,

Here is the convincing, unscholarly, tale of Marco Polo s courtship of Golden Bells, the daughter of Kubla Khan, of his journey from Venice, Bride of the East, to the courts of Cathay, seen through the eyes and told in the brogue of the old Ulster Scotch-Irishman, Malachi of the Glens...

Maurice Guest

by RICHARDSON, Henry Handel

A study of erotic obsession and the nature of genius, Henry Handel Richardson's first novel is set in the musical world of Leipzig in the 1890s. Its extraordinary heroine, Louise, is Australian; her affair with the young English music student Maurice Guest ruins his life and career and yet he has no choice, her captivation of him is such that he becomes the author of his own tragedy...

Love in Winter

by JAMESON, Storm

It is six years since the end of the Great War. For Hervey Russell, the years of peace should be bright, her growing literary repute paving the way for membership of London's literary society. But her career is insufficient, and life with an unloving husband makes her long for a new beginning. Her cousin Nicholas, shattered by the war, thinks his life is over, until he meets Hervey.

Love in a Wych Elm & Other Stories

by BATES, H.E

Kent, the Garden of England provides the rustic setting for these poignant stories from the creator of The Darling Buds of May. Graham Greene liked to compare HE Bates with Chekhov, greatest of short story writers, considering Bates the best writer of short stories of his generation and time. This new collection, selected by Bates grandson Tim Bates, shows why.

Knot of Vipers, The

by MAURIAC, Francois

The masterpiece of one of the greatest modern Catholic writers, The Knot of Vipers tells the story of Monsieur Louis, an embittered ageing lawyer who has spread his misery to his entire estranged family. Louis writes a journal to explain to them, and to himself, why his soul has been deformed, why his heart seems like a foul nest of twisted serpents...

Kidnapped

by STEVENSON, Robert Louis

One of the most exciting novels ever written, 'Kidnapped' was first published in 1886. The story is set in eighteenth-century Scotland, and is based around events in the aftermath of the Jacobite Risings...

Juan in America

by LINKLATER, Eric

Set in the year before the Wall Street crash, 'Juan in America' is a classic evocation of the final mania of prohibition, as seen through equally maverick British eyes. The character Eric Linklater devised to be his unreliable explorer was one capable of absorbing the enormity of the American experience without being overwhelmed by its incongruities...

Island Pharisees, The

by GLASWORTHY, John

Galsworthy's first novel was also the one he came to define as his most important, and it set the template in style and content for all his subsequent work. Galsworthy wrote the novel as a wide-ranged traveller returned home, prepared to confront the entrenched and self-serving moneyed elite...

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Roundabout Way

The Man on the Bridge

The World Over

The Secret City

On the Side of the Angels

You Shall Know Them

Wuthering Heights

When I was Otherwise

We, The Accused

Undiscovered Country, The

Unbearable Bassington, The

Two People

These Charming People

Tales of Sexual Desire

State of Change, A

Silas Marner

Scenes From the Latin Quarter

Real Charlotte, The

Potiki

Plain Tales from the Hills

Peking Picnic

Non-Combatants and Others

Napoleon of Notting Hill, The

Mr Perrin and Mr Traill

Messer Marco Polo

Maurice Guest

Love in Winter

Love in a Wych Elm & Other Stories

Knot of Vipers, The

Kidnapped

Juan in America

Island Pharisees, The

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