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Uncommon Reader
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Audio
Published 10-Sep-2007
| Our price: | £13.25 |
When they strayed through the grounds of Buckingham Palace, the Queen discovered the City of Westminster travelling library. One book leads to another and the Queen is soon engrossed in the delights of reading. However, the royal household dislikes the Queen's new interest; it makes them uneasy. Books are devices that ignite the imagination.
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Smut: Two Unseemly Stories: 'The Greening of Mrs Donaldson'
By Alan Bennett
Hardback
Published 14-Apr-2011
| Our price: | £13.25 |
Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers, her mundane life becomes much more stimulating...
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Heaven's Command
By Jan Morris
Audio
Published 28-Mar-2011
| RRP: | £54.77 |
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The Pax Britannica trilogy is Jan Morris's epic story of the British Empire from the accession of Queen Victoria to the death of Winston Churchill. It is a towering achievement: informative, accessible, entertaining and written with all her usual bravura.
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Homage to Catalonia
By George Orwell
Audio
Published 09-May-2011
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Homage to Catalonia, George Orwell's vivid account of his experiences fighting in the Spanish Civil War, is a portrait of disillusionment which offers background to the anti-Stalinist subtexts to Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell was shot in the neck, and forced into hiding as factions of the left fought on the streets of Barcelona.
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Count of Monte Cristo
By Alexandre Dumas
Audio
Published 01-Jul-2010
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This captivating tale of betrayal, scheming and revenge is one of Alexandre Dumas's most popular novels.
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Jerusalem
By Simon Montefiore
Audio
Published 10-Feb-2011
| RRP: | £25.00 |
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The epic story of Jerusalem told through the lives of the men and women who created, ruled and inhabited it. Abridged edition.
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Wine-dark Sea/ The Commodore / The Yellow Admiral
By Patrick OBrian
Audio
Published 05-Apr-2010
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A breathtaking collection of sea-faring tales.
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Volume One, Master and Commander / Post Captain / HMS Surpri
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Published 30-Apr-2009
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A breathtaking collection of sea-faring tales. Set sail for the read of your life ... Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written.
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Ladies of Letters Go Crackers
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Published 06-Jan-2011
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It's Christmas and the Ladies of Letters are busy. Vera has just returned from a festive trip to the Holy Land, where she has purchased Mary Mother of Jesus Jam and realised that the only universal religion is shopping. Then she and her family face homelessness when a heartless Bank buys up The Bothy for redevelopment.
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