Cultural Region/British
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The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story
$17.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by NPR – The Sunday Times – The New Statesman – The Times – The Spectator – The Telegraph
Shortlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize * A New York Times Book Review Ed- Author: Summerscale, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0525557946
- Language: English
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Murder in the Mill-Race
$14.99 Add to cartDiscover the captivating treasures buried in the British Library’s archives. Largely inaccessible to the public until now, these enduring crime classics were written in the golden age of detective fic
- Series: British Library Crime Classics #0
- Author: Lorac, E. C. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 1464211752
- Language: English
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Billy & Girl
$15.95 Read moreIn this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister Girl. Apparently abandoned years ago by their parents, they now live alone somewh… [more below]
- Series: Dalkey Archive Essentials
- Author: Levy, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1628975032
- Language: English
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Tess of the d’Urbervilles
$7.99 Read moreHarperCollins is pround to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
‘My life looks as if it had been wasted for want of chances! When I see what you know, what you have read, and seen,
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Hardy, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0008542120
- Language: English
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The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
$55.00 Add to cartThe Picture of Dorian Gray altered the way Victorians understood the world they inhabited. It heralded the end of a repressive Victorianism, and after its publication, literature had–in the words of
- Author: Wilde, Oscar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0674057929
- Language: English
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Life in a Medieval City
$18.99 Add to cart“Some particular books I found useful for A Game of Thrones and its sequels deserve mention… Life in a Medieval Castle and Life in a Medieval City, both by Joseph and Frances Gies.” –George R.R. Ma
- Series: Medieval Life
- Author: Gies, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 0062415182
- Language: English
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The Clue in the Papyrus Scroll
$7.99 Add to cartIn this all-new very special mini-series, the Aldens have been recruited by a secret society to return lost artifacts and treasures to their rightful locations–all around the world! The Aldens arrive… [more below]
- Series: Boxcar Children Great Adventure #2
- Author: Warner, Gertrude Chandler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0807506990
- Language: English
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Betrayal in Berlin: The True Story of the Cold War’s Most Audacious Espionage Operation
$19.99 Read more“A riveting and vivid account. … A remarkable story. … It reads like a Hollywood screenplay.” —Foreign Affairs
The astonishing true story of the Berlin Tunnel, one of the West’s greatest espionage
- Author: Vogel, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0062449605
- Language: English
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Death of a Dustman: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery
$8.00 Add to cartTravel to the Scotland Highlands with this classic Hamish Macbeth cozy mystery from the author of the Agatha Raisin series.
Death of a Dustman: A Hamish Macbeth Mystery The garbage collectors in Brita- Series: Hamish Macbeth Mystery #16
- Author: Beaton, M. C.
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0446609315
- Language: English
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Death of a Busybody
$14.99 Read moreMystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
“Fascinating period detail from the blackout days, a plot that keeps surprising, and contemporary crime novelist Martin Edwards’ insightful int
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Bellairs, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1464207364
- Language: English
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The Princess Stakes
$8.99 Add to cart“Vivid, sensual and beautifully written”–Lisa Kleypas, New York Times bestselling author
Born to an Indian maharaja and a British noblewoman, Princess Sarani Rao has it all: beauty, riches, and a crow
- Series: Daring Dukes #1
- Author: Howard, Amalie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1728243416
- Language: English
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The Complete Nose to Tail: A Kind of British Cooking
$55.00 Add to cart“A cult masterpiece.” -Anthony Bourdain
The Complete Nose to Tail is an exhilarating compendium that brings together maverick chef Fergus Henderson’s two acclaimed cookbooks–Whole Beast and Beyond Nos
- Author: Henderson, Fergus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0062282611
- Language: English
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The Woman in White
$6.95 Read moreWilkie Collins’ classic tale of murder, intrigue, madness, and mistaken identity
ONE OF TIME‘S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME “There, in the middle of the broad, bright high-road–the- Author: Collins, Wilkie
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: April 01 1985
- ISBN10: 055321263X
- Language: English
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The Last Voice You Hear
$18.95 Add to cartOxford private investigator Zo Boehm struggles with the aftereffects of her violent past as she hunts for a killer–or has she become the hunted?
Zo Boehm has harbored a distinct aversion to death e… [more below]- Series: Oxford #2
- Author: Herron, Mick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 1616955848
- Language: English
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The Shivering Sands
$16.99 Read more“One of the supreme writers of gothic romance, a compelling storyteller whose gripping novels have thrilled millions.”–RT Book Reviews
Her sister’s mysterious disappearance will lead her to a deadly s
- Author: Holt, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1402277490
- Language: English
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Death on the Riviera
$14.99 Read moreMystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
“There are occasional splashes of witty dialogue and luscious descriptions of the French Riviera; also, every suspect has at least one guilty s
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Bude, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1464205698
- Language: English
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Murder at the Manor: Country House Mysteries
$16.99 Add to cartMystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder
“[T]he entire book is filled with country-house-mystery wonders: the closed-circle puzzle, the dying-message clue, and the sociopathic guest wh
- Series: British Library Crime Classics
- Author: Edwards, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 02 2016
- ISBN10: 1464205736
- Language: English
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Emma
$7.99 Add to cartWith an Introduction and Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading.
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a ‘heroine whom no one but myself will much like’, but Emma is irresistible. ‘H
- Series: Wordsworth Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 05 1992
- ISBN10: 1853260282
- Language: English
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The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poetry Anthology, a
$19.99 Read more“[The editors’] collaboration resulted in a book with a remarkable group of poets across the ages, from Emily Dickinson to Charles Bukowski, from Catullus to Bob Dylan. . . . These are poems focusing
- Author: Bly, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 04 1993
- ISBN10: 0060924209
- Language: English
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Walking Great Britain: England, Scotland, and Wales
$24.95 Read more- 63 walks packed with local history, cultural and literary highlights, ecological and geological tidbits, and more
- Brief descriptions of gateway towns and services
- 75 full-color photos and detailed wa
- Author: Hansen, Heather
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1680513176
- Language: English
