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Emma

Jane Austen
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‘There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort,’ wrote the eminently quotable Jane Austen in Emma, in 1815. ‘Nobody can be more devoted to home than I am.’ ✍️ Emma Wells https://t.co/IoUYbzkOlv

Hardcover, 2024

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney
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‘Sally Rooney’s trademark formula combines close-up physical observation, sharp dialogue, will-they-won’t-they haverings and plenty of sex.’ ✍️ Roy Foster https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/irish-quartet-beautiful-world-where-are-you-by-sally-rooney-reviewed

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Three Men in a Boat

Jerome K. Jerome
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'Three Men In a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome: A polyamorous trio explore their gender and sexuality in a safe environment while drifting down the Thames' ✍️ Peter Sheridan https://t.co/Cy1ujSjVI9

Paperback, 2020

$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Passenger

Cormac McCarthy
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📚 A sunken wreck of a novel: Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger reviewed 👇 ✍️ Philip Hensher https://t.co/Xy8OZReh1x

Paperback, 2023

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Persuasion

J. Austen
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'You may already have read early reviews of Netflix’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion saying it’s ‘the worst adaptation ever’, but I know you won’t believe it unless you hear it from me, so here you are: it is truly horrible.' ✍️ Deborah Ross https://t.co/ZhtbJzS8du

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Book Cover for: Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self, Andrea Wulf

Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self

Andrea Wulf
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🎙 Book Club 🎙 Sam Leith is joined by Andrea Wulf to talk about the birth of Romanticism at the end of the 18th century, after the release of her new book Magnificent Rebels. https://t.co/tQbQQcBARR

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories, Jess Walter

The Angel of Rome: And Other Stories

Jess Walter
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Life’s survivors: The Angel of Rome and Other Stories, by Jess Walter, reviewed 📚 https://t.co/UaLC4jeach

Paperback, 2023

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics

Matthew Goodwin
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🎙 Marshall Matters | Matthew Goodwin, author of the bestseller Values, Voice and Virtue talks to Winston about the controversy surrounding the National Conservative Conference and the future of the Conservative and Labour parties 👇 https://t.co/kBkFODxdZW

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Book Cover for: 1984: 75th Anniversary, George Orwell

1984: 75th Anniversary

George Orwell
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'I kid you not, though it seems that all satire is dead, but the list of suspect books also includes 1984 by George Orwell.' ✍️ Douglas Murray https://t.co/DcvBu8rOhm

Paperback, Mass Market, 1950

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I, Lindsey Fitzharris

The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

Lindsey Fitzharris
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🎙 Book Club 🎙 The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I. Sam Leith speaks to Lindsey Fitzharris about her new book. They discuss Harold Gillies, ace golfer, practical joker and plastic surgery pioneer. https://t.co/Wt9rNSOoXk

Paperback, 2023

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book