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By:
Minette Walters
In 1920s East Sussex, the corpse of Elsie Cameron is discovered
in a chicken run. The man found guilty of the crime, her
fiancé Norman Thorne, was sentenced to death and hanged. At
the time...
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By:
Bram Stoker
"Dracula"... the very name instantly brings to mind vampires,
blood and bats. When the young Englishman, Jonathan Harker, visits
Count Dracula's castle in the mountains of Transylvania, he has no
...
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By:
Mary Shelly
Frankenstein
In 1816, when Mary Shelley was only nineteen, she began her famous
novel about the young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, and his
discovery of the secret of life. After two ...
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By:
James Moloney
We didn't go with the boys to the building site. If I'd
known what Dougy was going to find here, perhaps I would have
changed my mind. His discovery would soon put Cunningham in all the
countr...
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By:
Karen Blixen
In 'Out of Africa' Karen Blixen tells the absorbing
story of her life in Kenya. It is a story of a woman's
struggle to create a new existence on foreign soil.
Her encounter wi...
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By:
James Heneghan
"Liam fell to the floor. The big man swung his boot and kicked
Liam hard in the ribs. Behind the Balaclava mask, the man's eyes
looked like the cold dead eyes of a fish.
"He saw me!" The ma...
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By:
Tim Bowler
When 13-year-old Ella is kidnapped, her brother Fin, aged 15,
blames himself for leaving her alone in the house. Fin's feelings
of guilt drive him on to discover the identity of the kidnapper -
bu...
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By:
Ernest Hemmingway
This volume contains three of Hemingway's early short stories.
'The snow of Kilimanjaro' relates the story of a rootless
expatriate, Harry, who is awaiting death in a safari camp at the
foot of th...
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By:
Graham Greene
The city of Vienna, one February after the Second World War, is
ruined, cold and full of underground activity. To this city comes
Rollo Martins, a writer from England, to meet his old school frien...
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By:
Ira Levin
The year is 1965. Guy and Rosemary Woodhouse, a young couple,
move into Rosemary's dream apartment in an old apartment house in
New York.
The dream turns into a nightmare when Rosemar...
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By:
Alexander McCall Smith
Precious Ramotswe is Botswana's first and only female private
detective. One day she is visited by an American woman, whose son
died a mysterious death 10 years ago, and she agrees to investiga...
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By:
S. E. Hinton
This is the story of how the fifteen-year-old Tex grows up from
the easygoing school-kid into a young adult. We see Tex's growing
awakening to the problems of life that face him and his 17-year...
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By:
Robert Loius Stevenson
Stevenson hoped that this story would please young people. It
was, he explained, a story of sailors, storms and adventures, heat
and cold, sailing-ships, islands, pirates and buried gold - all
...
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