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Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But ... More

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For 50 years, from a summer afternoon of 1913 to the 1960s, an Anglo-Irish family, the Godwins, live through a cycle of passion, madness and death ... More

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A search for Simon, the heir to a substantial inheritance, results in two claimants as well as a number of disappointed people. When one of the ... More

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The first Washington Square Press fiction original gives the poignant story of a boy coming of age in the Appalachian mountain town of Crum, West ... More

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Award-winning writer Paul Theroux explores the darker underside of the community of expatriates in South-East Asia in his compelling and strikingly ... More

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Conspirators plot to explode a train carrying nerve gas. A perfect servant suddenly reveals himself to be the insidious Dr. Fu Manchu. Science - ... More

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"These tiny stories, in which a wide variety of animals show us how human we really are, are completely uproarious."-- "Saturday Review of Literature ... More

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this book was intended as a Portuguese-English conversational guide or phrase book, but is regarded as a classic source of unintentional humour, as ... More

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YOU CAN TAKE THE MAN OUT OF THE GUTTER, BUT YOU CAN'T TAKE THE GUTTER OUT OF THE MAN Low life writer and alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive ... More

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"Don't Tell Alfred" is the wickedly funny sequel to Nancy Mitford's "The Pursuit of Love" and "Love in a Cold Climate". "I believe it would have been ... More

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Albert, Carrie and young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people they've come to live among that the war and their ... More

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When Andrew Manson starts work as a doctor he discovers some unpleasant facts about the medical profession. There are doctors who know very little ... More

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"Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities -- including superb sexual comedy." --"Sunday Times" " " Like all good medieval coaching inns, ... More

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An assembly of Welsh stories from two ancient books, the 'Red Book of Hergest' and the earlier 'The White Book of Rhydderch' approx 500 BC.

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A collection of short fiction showing the varied writing styles as Thomas grew from young Welsh poet to international celebrity.

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This is the tale of the enchanted island where the nearsighted Abbot Mael baptized penguins in error. These penguins--possessed of Divine Grace by ... More

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The complete Lucia, including Queen Lucia, Lucia in London, Miss Mapp, The Male Impersonator, Mapp & Lucia, The Worshipful Lucia and Trouble for ... More

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Tom Stoppard's first novel, originally published in 1966, includes not only the eighteenth-century figure of the dandified Malquist and his ... More

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Verse, puzzles, "The Hunting of the Snark," acrostics, poems from larger works--largest collection of Carroll verse in print. 130 illustrations by ... More

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