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Bill Amberg for Penguin Classic
| Relevant titles: | 2 |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
Bill Amberg and Penguin Books have collaborated to produce this series of luxury leather Penguin Classics. Bill has chosen six of his favourite modern novels for their enduring and cosmopolitan style...
| Author: | Peter Ackroyd |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 135366 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
Hawksmoor is one of acclaimed writer Peter Ackroyd's most vivid fictional creations. London in the eighteenth century is a city of extremes: squalor and superstition vie with elegance and enlightenment...
| Author: | Zadie Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 135365 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Zadie Smith's White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel on a scrambled, heterogeneous sprawl of mixed-race and immigrant family life in 20th-century gritty London.
It follows the roots and...
Down and Out in Paris and London
| Author: | George Orwell |
| Publisher: | Penguin |
| Catalogue number: | 143310 |
| Availability: | Temporarily out of stock: expected back within 12 days |
George Orwell’s vivid memoir of his time among the desperately poor and destitute in Down and Out in London and Paris is a moving tour of the underworld of society.
Although his account is also partly...
| Author: | Angela Carter |
| Publisher: | Virago |
| Catalogue number: | 135346 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Angela Carter's classic The Magic Toyshop is a story of discovery, dramatic growth and sexual awakening. Melanie ventures in the midnight garden wearing her mother's wedding dress; having closed herself...
| Author: | Graham Greene |
| Publisher: | Vintage |
| Catalogue number: | 135342 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Graham Greene's Brighton Rock is the classic murder tale set in 1930s Brighton and which was made into a successful feature film in 1948. A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of Brighton...
| Author: | Alexander McCall Smith |
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 148838 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
Alexander McCall Smith’s Scotland Street occupies a busy, bohemian corner of Edinburgh’s New Town, where the old haute bourgeoisie finds itself rubbing shoulders with students, poets and portraitists...
| Author: | Alexander McCall Smith |
| Publisher: | Abacus |
| Catalogue number: | 148839 |
| Availability: | In stock: usually dispatched within 48 hours |
The Sunday Philosophy Club marks new territory - but familiar moral ground - from the author of The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency Alexander McCall Smith. This novel sees the debut of Isabel Dalhousie...
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