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Peter Grant is not just a lowly Detective Constable, he's also apprenticed to the last wizard in Britain: policing will never be the same again!

A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call 'objectivity'. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not ...

"In addition to the best of Sherlock Holmes, this anthology features selections from Conan Doyle's works of fantasy starring Professor Challenger. Contents include The Hound of the Baskervilles and A Study in Scarlet plus three other stories from Baker Street as well as The Lost World and a trio of supernatural ...

Volume One of the Border Trilogy

In their youth, Florentino Ariza and Fermina Daza fall passionately in love. When Fermina eventually chooses to marry a wealthy, well-born doctor, Florentino is heartbroken, but he is a romantic. As he rises in his business career he whiles away the years in 622 affairs—yet he reserves his heart for ...

The ever-prolific author began contributing poems and sketches to the University of Mississippi's literary magazine at the age of 16. These early works reflect the growing refinement of his voice as a Southern author.

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.'

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's great masterpiece is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though ...

A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to be the perfect couple.

The Devil comes to Moscow, but he isn't all bad; Pontius Pilate sentences a charismatic leader to his death, but yearns for redemption; and a writer tries to destroy his greatest tale, but discovers that manuscripts don't burn. Multi-layered and entrancing, blending sharp satire with glorious fantasy, ...

In this sequel to Anne of Green Gables, teenage Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.

"Witty, easy-to-read philosophical essays, written by the poet, essayist, and Supreme Court Justice. Holmes drew upon his experiences as a resident of a New England boardinghouse to add color and humor to these reflections"--

A dying woman, given a second chance to relive her life, travels back in time. Her goal: the execution of an obscure Viennese artist named Adolf Hitler. Two generations later, the assassin's granddaughter is mystified to discover a book relating the history of World War II ― the chronicle of a conflict ...

Collected for the first time, four funny and imaginative tales for kids by an acclaimed storyteller include Wingman, Fat Men from Space, The Magic Goose and The Muffin Fiend.

A sweet-natured seamstress has lived all her life in the Marshalsea debtors' prison, where her family has been in custody since before her birth. When Little Dorrit ventures out of jail to work, she meets Arthur Clennam, who's trying to free himself from the burden of his family business. The state of ...

Moscow-born Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) served time in a convict prison in Siberia for his political alliances, and in his later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt. His many brilliant novels include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot and The Brothers Karamazov. This book tells his story.

One of the most talked about first novels ever, "White Teeth" is a funny, generous, bit-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing -among other things- with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse and the tricky way the past has ...

Richard Cantrell is an American colonel living in Venice just after the Second World War. But Cantrell is living in the shadow of war, every move he makes dictated by old battle instincts, and it is possible that for him the longed-for peace may have come too late.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.

Imagine a place populated by criminals - people plucked from their lives, with their memories altered, who've been granted new identities and a second chance.