Classic Fiction
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The Conjure-Man Dies
Rudolph Fisher
An unmissable entry in the esteemed Library of Congress Crime Classics, an exciting new classic...
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Manservant and Maidservant
Ivy Compton-Burnett
Horace Lamb runs an austere household with tyrannical force and cruel thrift. His five children...
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Maud Martha
Gwendolyn Brooks
(Faber Editions)
The stunning only novel by the celebrated poet and first Black author to win...
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The Gamekeeper
Barry Hines
George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He...
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Babbitt
Sinclair Lewis
In the Midwestern city of Zenith, the middle-aged estate agent George F. Babbitt appears to...
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R in the Month
Nancy Spain
The oyster party had the kiss of death upon it – even though there were...
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The Chronicles of Amber
Roger Zelazny
Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself – Shadow worlds, that...
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The Legend Of The Holy Drinker
Joseph Roth
Andreas is an alcoholic and a vagrant who lives under a bridge. Downtrodden, submerged at...
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The Radetzky March
Joseph Roth
Set against the doomed splendour of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, The Radetzky March tells the story...
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The Amis Collection
Kingsley Amis
Selected Non-fiction
What advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes...
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Green for Danger
Christianna Brand
It is 1942, and struggling up the hill to the new military hospital, Heron’s Park,...
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Beautiful Star
Yukio Mishima
Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was...