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Little Nell Trent lives in the quiet gloom of the old curiosity shop with her ailing grandfather, for whom she cares with selfless devotion. But when they are unable to pay their debts to the stunted, lecherous and evil money-lender Daniel Quilp, the shop is seized and they are forced to flee, thrown into a shadowy world in which there seems to be no safe haven. Dickens's portrayal of the innocent, tragic Nell made The Old Curiosity Shop an instant bestseller that captured the hearts of the nation, even as it was criticised for its sentimentality by figures such as Oscar Wilde. This story has some of Dickens's greatest comic and grotesque creations: the ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller, the mannish lawyer Sally Brass, the half-starved 'Marchioness' and the lustful, loathsome Quilp himself. -
Constance and Sophia Baines had been brought up bound by the limited outlook and strict morality of Bursley - one of Staffordshire's Five Towns. Constance accepted this as they only world they knew, but Sophia's craving for excitement and romance takes her to Paris and a wholly different existence. The reader follows the sisters through their lives against a faithful and vivid background of Midland provincial life in the mid-nineteenth century and the glittering Paris of the 1870s.
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The Opium Road: Shaun Clarke
$15.00The 'Road of Life' is an ancient trading route linking Tajikistan to the south with the Osh region of Kyrgyzstan in the north. These days it's the artery for the heroin trade - the Opium Road, controlled by the Russian mafia. Above the snowline, Dmitry Petrov rules his kingdom with an iron fist. Once a bodyguard for President Yeltsin, he is now the most powerful of the Mafioso controlling this dangerous region. Two thousand miles away in the Brecon Beacons, Wales, SAS Captain Hugh Scott prepares for a top secret mission : to neutralise a man who is becoming an embarrassment to the British and Russian Governments. For Scott, this is more than a job, it's a vendetta: his son was a heroin addict. In the freezing whiteout of a Russian winter, the time for reckoning is approaching.
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In this volume: The Family Streak andThe Old Fault, Shirley Grey; Hiking On Horseback, Cora Gordon; The Scotch Society, Constance Savery; The Monster Of Loch Shee, Dorita Fairlie Bruce; 'For The Best Disguise', Evelyn Simms; The Three Workers, Frances Joyce; Mr Stewart's Nuggets, Wallace Carr, The Fairies' Gift: A Welsh Story, Ann Vaughan; The Parrot That Did Not Talk, Elizabeth Whitely; Caroline And The Smuggler, Jocelyn Oliver; Good Aunt Earle, M.A. Peart; Camping Out, A.G. Holman; Jill Repays, Anne Page; Pamela's Piebald, Gunby Hadath; The Wanderer, Thora Stowell; How To Dive, W.J. Howcroft; Sally's Sunday, Alice Massie; The Poison Cupboard, Frances Joyce. -
The mysterious Song of Camlon tells of a mighty warrior who will win the crown of Cambria. This is Arthur's great destiny - or so prophesies Merdin the seer. To claim his birthright, the simple Welsh rustic must overcome the tyrant Vortigern, his brilliant son Modred, and the other formidable foes arrayed against him. Is Fate the architect of Arthur's success, or is his rise to power determined by the strength of his sword arm and the shrewdness of his advisors? The naive young warrior must learn much about his enemies, both open and secret, and the prophecies that so rule his life before he can step from the pages of dark history into glorious legend. First published in 1959, this is one of the first modern novels to rediscover the Arthurian legend's Welsh roots. Cover art by S. K. Boldener. -
Three naive teenage sisters, after the death of their mother, move from a small village to try to make their way in the big city. They make many mistakes yet find help in the most unexpected places, but hanging over them - still - is the mystery of their brother who went missing as a small boy. First published in 1887. Illustrated by John. E. Sutcliffe. -
Book II of Robert the Bruce. Bruce is broken in every way - except in spirit. He has been excommunicated and is a fugitive from the English. With the exception of his wife, nobody has any faith in him and his vision of freedom. Indeed, the war-weary Scots seem long past caring.But from this desperate situation and in the face of apparently unbearable setbacks where he loses all but his life, Robert the Bruce rises and finally faces the English at the memorable battle of Bannockburn. -
The classic adventure tale of early American and Canadian exploration in the 18th century - thrilling tale of naval adventure, rival love, and wilderness experience that captures the rough-and-tumble life on the shores of Lake Ontario during the French and Indian War and the story is set after the events of The Last of the Mohicans. Cooper's works (The Deerslayer, The Last of the Mohicans) were described by J.B. Priestley as having ' a sense of vastness and mystery of the American scene, of a presence in it, half-poetic, half-sinister, of the vanishing tribes of the red men, of painted, shadowy faces in the forest, of fading clouds of dust on the prairie.' Cover art by Fred Exell. -
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The Australians. New arrival in the Colony, Lady Cadogan and her twin brother Patrick cause speculation. They are Irish and do not appear to be either settlers or gold hunters. The Norfolk Island penal settlement is in the process of being closed down and the inmates transferred to Port Arthur prison in Tasmania. Red Broome is puzzled by the Governor's request that he give passage to the two young Cadogans on board his frigate, the H.M.S. Galah, to the Island. The discovery of a diary kept then hidden by one of the convicts clears up a part of the mystery but involves his brother John in a daring escape from Port Arthur by four convicts previously imprisoned on Norfolk Island.
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