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		Three Courses and a Dessert
				Literature
		William Clarke
		Nonsuch 2005 448 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1845880722
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	William Clarke (1800-1838) is best known for The Boys' Own Book, but he also published collections of humorous short stories, of which this is the most successful, due in part to its illustrator - George Cruikshank. The 'three courses' are West Country, Irish and legal stories; the 'festal afterpiece' a miscellany of shorter pieces and verses.
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		'Ask Mamma'
		or, The Richest Commoner in England		Literature
		Robert S Surtees
		Nonsuch 2005 544 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1845880021
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	Famous for his writings on horses and hunting, Robert Surtees here offers a narrative that revels in the absudities of life as it follows the romantic exploits of Emma Wilding ('Mamma'), a seamstress made good, and her son Fine Billy, whose adventures in polite country society culminate in the Hit-im and Hold-im shire hunt ball. Illustrated by John Leech. First published in 1858.
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		Mirage
				Literature
		Bandula Chandraratna
		Black Sparrow		Qty
		Hardback
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	With all the clarity, concision and strangeness of a fairy tale, this first novel by Sri Lankan-born Chandraratna tells a story of love and death set in a modern-day Arab kingdom.
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		Lobsters on the Agenda
				Literature
		Naomi Mitchison
		House of Lochar 1997 254 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1899863206
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	This novel about life in the West Highlands deals with a single week in the affairs of a small coastal village. A series of meetings are the settings in which the locals try to resolve their differences over public issues, as well as more personal ones - not least being, who stole the lobster?
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		The Songs of the Kings
				Literature
		Barry Unsworth
		Hamish Hamilton 2002 246 pages		Qty
		Hardback 0241137012
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	Unsworth's Booker Prize-winning novel reaches back in time to the ancient Greek fleet, becalmed in the straits of Aulis, and the story of Iphegenia, whose sacrifice could raise the wind. But can her father, Agamemnon, take her life for the sake of victory over Troy?
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		The Right Hand of Doom
		The Savage Tales of Solomon King		Literature
		Robert E Howard
		Wordsworth 2007 208 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1840226110
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	The American writer Robert E Howard (1906-1936) was already one of the foremost authors of the 'sword and sorcery' genre when he shot himself at the age of 30. This collection of ten stories and three poems feature a hero as troubled as his creator: the sombre Puritan Solomon Kane, locked in the pursuit of justice and bloody retribution.
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		Edgar Allan Poe: Selected Poems and Tales
				Literature
		Edgar Allan Poe; Illustrated by Mark Summers
		Barnes & Noble 2004 242 pages		Qty
		Hardback Illustrated 0760756740 276x210mm
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	This collection of some of Poe's finest writing sees his unique talent complemented by a series of evocative illustrations by Mark Summers. Shadowy and utterly compelling, these arresting colour plates and ghostly pencil drawings bring a vivid new dimension to works such as Annabel Lee, The Raven, The Pit and the Pendulum and The Fall of the House of Usher. Whether accompanying poetry or prose, Summers' images have a maleficent quality that is totally empathetic with Poe's dark gothic masterpieces.
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		The House of Elrig
				Literature
		Gavin Maxwell
		Birlinn 2002 208 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1841582581
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	Gavin Maxwell's autobiographical novel telling of his boyhood which he spent mostly at the House of Elrigh, a lonely house on the moorlands of Galloway, where he developed an interest in animals and a love of the wilderness.
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		The Red Door
		The Complete English Stories, 1949-76		Literature
		Iain Crichton Smith
		Birlinn 2001 570 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1841581607
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		Return from the Dead
				Literature
		David Stuart Davies (Edited by)
		Wordsworth 2006 273 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1840224525
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	This collection presents five early mummy stories that helped to establish the concept of the dead returning to life as a potent sub-genre of horror fiction. The authors are Bram Stoker, Jane Webb, Edgar Allen Poe and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (two stories).
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		The Beetle
		A Mystery		Literature
		Richard Marsh
		Wordsworth 2007 276 pages		Qty
		Paperback 1840226099
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	A creature 'born of neither God nor man' and endowed with Mesmeric powers, the Beetle is a shape-shifter, horrible in its ambiguity. Marsh's weird and compelling novel, first published in 1897, is both a horror masterpiece and a fin de siecle melodrama expressing the appetites and fears of late Victorian society.
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		Supernatural Tales
		Excursions into Fantasy		Literature
		Vernon Lee
		Peter Owen 2004 224 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0720611946
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	Vernon Lee (1856-1935) was praised for the learning and descriptive power of her writings on Italy by writers such as Walter Pater and John Addington Symonds. The same erudition and power pervades these six fantastical stories. Set in different historical periods and mainly in Italy, they share the theme of alien spirits representing both good and evil. Edited and introduced by I Cooper Willis.
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		The Marquis de Sade Reader
				Literature
		Margaret Crosland (Translated by)
		Peter Owen 2000 192 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0720610907
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	Despite his scandalous reputation, de Sade is still rarely read, either in France or abroad. This selection of excerpts from his writings encourages the reader to reassess his unique and extreme vision of the world, not only in the notorious fantasies of his major fiction but also in his works of social criticism, philosophy and political writing. First published in 1991 as The Passionate Philosopher.
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		In the Shadow of Islam
				Literature
		Isabelle Eberhardt
		Peter Owen 2003 126 pages		Qty
		Paperback 0720611911
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	Translated from the original French. The story of Isabelle Eberhardt who in 1897 at the age of 20 left Geneva for Kenadsa on the Moroccan border, travelling into the heart of Islam dressed as a man as the only way to travel alone and unimpeded.
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		Phantoms
				Literature
		James Laughlin
		Aperture 1995 64 pages		Qty
		Paperback Illustrated 0893816132
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	Collected work by poet James Laughlin and photographer Virginia Schendler; Laughlin''s poetry blends the spirit of Latin poets with his ear for colloquial speech, while Schendler captures some of New York''s ironies and humour and the provocations of older parts of the city.
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