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Humphry Clinker
Tobias George Smollett - Paperback - Penguin
Matthew Bramble, a gout-ridden misanthrope, travels Britain with his nephew, niece, spinster sister and man-servant, the trusty Humphry Clinker. In poor health, Bramble sees the world as one of degeneracy and raucous overcrowding, and will not hesitate to let his companions know his feelings on the matter.
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Rob Roy
Sir Walter Scott - Paperback - HarperPress
Banished from his father's house, Frank Osbaldistone becomes involved in the conspiracy surrounding the disastrous Jacobite rising of 1715. His adventures take him across the Highland Line, where he finds cruelty and some unlikely friends.
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The Private Memoirs And Confessions Of A Justified Sinner
James Hogg - Paperback - Penguin
The story of a young man who uses the Calvinist doctrine of predestination to rationalize and acquiesce in the devil's promptings to murder his worldly brother. The strength of the book lies in the latter part - a re-telling of the story by the villain himself.
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The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Paperback - Fractal
Amid the foggy streets of sinister London, Holmes and Watson once more solve the unsolvable. In 'Speckled Band', 'The Engineer's Thumb' and ten other stories, Holmes grapples with the very extremes of treachery, duplicity and murderous end.
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The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Paperback - Fractal
Dr Watson records eleven stories revealing the astonishing abilities of the famous consulting detective similar only in exhibiting those unusual and outré features so dear to Holmes, his chronicler and their myriad readers.
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson - Paperback - Sovereign
Jim Hawkins gets hold of a treasure map and sets off with an adult crew in search of the buried treasure. Among the crew, however, is the treacherous Long John Silver who is determined to keep the treasure for himself.
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The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark - Paperback - Penguin
Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over the group of 'special girls' at the Marcia Blaine Academy. Each is famous for something & are initiated into a world of adult games & extra-curricular activities they will never forget.
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The Hound Of The Baskervilles
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Paperback - BBC
It was Sir Charles's mysterious death in the grounds of Baskerville Hall that brought Sherlock Holmes to the scene of one of his most famous and intriguing cases.
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The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Paperback - BBC
Dr Watson records eleven stories revealing the astonishing abilities of the famous consulting detective, similar only in that they exhibit those unusual and outré features so dear to Holmes, his chronicler and their myriad readers.
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The Sign Of Four
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Paperback - BBC
A dense yellow miasma swirls in the streets of London as Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson accompany a beautiful young woman to a sinister assignation.