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Muriel Spark
A Far Cry From Kensington

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I can't help it. Sometimes the words just come out and I can't stop them. It feels like preaching the gospel. [large quote]When publishing assistant and war widow Nancy Hawkins tells Hector Bartlett that …

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Rumer Godden
A Fugue in Time

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Rumer Godden's classic wartime love story is a dramatic tale that inspired the film Enchantment starring David Niven and Teresa Wright.

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Rumer Godden
An Episode of Sparrows

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INTRODUCED BY JACQUELINE WILSONTo Angela they were sparrows because they were cheeky, cocky, common as sparrows; to Olivia nothing was common . . .Someone has been digging up the private garden in graciou…

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Rumer Godden
Breakfast with the Nikolides

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INTRODUCED BY ROSIE THOMASBreakfast with the Nikolides was always to be the last hour of her childhood . . .For Emily Pool, India is a magical place where she has the freedom to escape her mother's suffoc…

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Rumer Godden
Cromartie v. the God Shiva

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Marking Rumer Godden's return to south India, this classic novel is a vivid evocation of love and class in the beloved country that inspired many of her bestselling works.

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Barbara Pym
Excellent Women

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INTRODUCED BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITHMildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations or even the gr…

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Mary Renault
Fire from Heaven

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INTRODUCED BY TOM HOLLAND He stood between death and life as between night and morning, and thought with a soaring rapture, 'I am not afraid'. Alexander is born to rule. Caught in a power struggle for his…

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Nettie Jones
Fish Tales

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A LITHUB BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025Acquired by Toni Morrison, championed by Gayl Jones, and almost forgotten for forty years, FISH TALES is a fierce, fearless modern classic for our own fragmented times.'Candi…

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Nettie Jones
Fish Tales

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THE DAZZLING LOST CLASSIC *A Lit Hub Most Anticipated Book of 2025* *A Cosmopolitan Best Book for April 2025* *A New York Times Book Review Most-Anticipated Book of the Spring* *A Time Best Book of the Mo…

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Mary Renault
Funeral Games

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'The Alexander Trilogy contains some of Renault's finest writing. Lyrical, wise, compelling: the novels are a wonderful imaginative feat' SARAH WATERSThe heavens say it begins with the death of the King .…

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Daphne Du Maurier
I'll Never Be Young Again

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A COMING-OF-AGE TALE OF ADVENTURE AND LOVE, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN'One of the last century's most original literar…

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Merce Rodoreda,
In Diamond Square

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'A small masterpiece' COLM TÓIBÍN, DAILY TELEGRAPH 'The most beautiful novel published in Spain since the Civil War' GABRIEL GARCÍA MARQUEZ 'Rodoreda's writing pays such fierce and tender attention to the…

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Daphne Du Maurier
Julius

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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'This is a tale of such emotional brutality and moral dislocation that it feels as if it's been wrought by a master, someone who has seen, known and grappled with the…

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Rumer Godden
Kingfishers Catch Fire

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Rumer Godden's classic novel introduced by the bestselling author, Rosie Thomas. It tells the story of a young English woman's dramatic and disturbing experiences in Himalayan Kashmir.

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Gloria Naylor
Linden Hills

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WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IRENOSEN OKOJIEBy the bestselling author of The Women of Brewster PlaceWith its showcase homes and manicured lawns, an address in the wealthy Black American neighbourhood of Lin…

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Daphne Du Maurier
Mary Anne

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'This novel catches fire'NEW YORK TIMESDISCOVER THIS THRILLING STORY OF DESIRE AND AMBITION FROM THE AUTHOR OF REBECCAShe set men's hearts on fire and scandalized a country.In Regency London, the only way…

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Janet Frame
Owls Do Cry

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'Janet Frame was a unique and troubled soul whose luminous words are the more precious' HILARY MANTEL 'Her dark, eloquent song captured my heart' JANE CAMPION 'All my preoccupations as a writer - my notio…

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Daphne Du Maurier
Rebecca

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FALL IN LOVE WITH THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED TAYLOR SWIFT'An unforgettable masterpiece . . . filled with razor-sharp tension, escalating dread, and a twist that chills to the bone' FREIDA MCFADDEN 'It's the …

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Vera Brittain
Testament Of Youth

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'Remains one of the most powerful and widely read war memoirs of all time' GUARDIAN 'Vera Brittain's heart-rending account of the way her generation's lives changed is still as shocking and moving as ever…

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Rumer Godden
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita

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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OFBLACK NARCISSUS AND THE RIVER'One of our best and most captivating novelists' PHILIP HENSHER'[Godden has] a genius for storytelling' EVENING STANDARD'Her prose is pure, delic…

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