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On Beauty
by Zadie Smith
On Beauty is Zadie Smith’s wonderful homage to Howard’s End and it provides plenty of parallels for devotees to spot while remaining greatly enjoyable on its own terms. The action has transferred to...
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House of Orphans
by Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore's House of Orphans opens in Finland in 1901, when Finland was still part of the Russian Empire. Eeva, the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary, is sent from Helsinki to a country...
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Where Angels Fear to Tread
by E. M. Forster
Where Angels Fear to Tread is E M Forster's classic novel about the seductive power of Italy and the clash between Italian and Edwardian English values. It is amongst the greatest 20th-century...
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A Passage to India
by E. M. Forster
Although younger generations may know David Lean’s 1984 film, E M Forster’s A Passage to India remains a masterly, at times compelling snapshot of an era which still has echoes of prejudice with today’...
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The Volcano Lover
by Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag’s The Volcano Lover is a novel of complexity, expression and passion set in late nineteenth century Naples, which re-imagines the real life events of the story of Horatio Nelson, Emma Hami...
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Petals of Blood
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Petals of Blood is a novel based firmly in the reality of its times, portraying a post independence Kenya ruled by greed, corruption and brutality. Paradoxically, the blistering criticism of the...
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Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
First published in 1958, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart is one of the modern age's defining books - the book that marked African independence and in one leap created a powerful, vivid Nigerian liter...
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
by Truman Capote
When anyone says Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the image of Audrey Hepburn and her undeniable elegance always comes to the fore- even the cover of Truman Capote's classic tale is adorned with her delicate vi...
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On the Road
by Jack Kerouac
Regarded as the quintessential work of the Beat Generation’s literary output, Jack Kerouac wrote On the Road in a marathon peyote-fuelled writing session on one long piece of paper, prompting Truman Ca...
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Dubliners
by James Joyce
Joyce's first major work, Dubliners was written when he was only twenty-five, and brought his city to the world for the first time. His stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life,...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
by Arthur Doyle
Some blame the sudden death of Sir Charles Baskerville on the legend of a fearsome and ghostly hound that is said to have haunted his Devonshire family for generations.

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Zennor in Darkness
by Helen Dunmore
Zennor in Darkness by Helen Dunmore is set in spring, 1917, where war haunts the Cornish coastal village of Zennor: ships are being sunk by U-boats, strangers are treated with suspicion, and newspapers...
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