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The giro playboy
Book. English.
Published
London: Faber, 2006
This novel recounts the (mis)adventures of a delusional drifter and his wanderings from the north-east to London, and on to Brighton and the badlands...
The history of Tom Jones, a foundling
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Penguin, 2005
[New ed.] / edited with explanatory notes by Thomas Keymer and Alice Wakely /with an introduction by Thomas Keymer
This is a funny, scandalous and picaresque tale of a young lad, reared by a magnanimous benefactor who becomes entangled in the life of an amorous 'Lady...
Life of a good-for-nothing
Book. English.
Published
London: Hesperus, 2002
Firmly in the tradition of German Romanticism, this book is considered to be Eichendorff's masterpiece. It is a delightful picaresque tale and a classic...
A rogue's life
Paperback. English.
Published
London: Hesperus, 2006
A tale of thwarted ambition and forbidden love, 'A Rogue's Life' follows the very mixed fortunes of an endearing young man
A start in life
Hardback. English.
Published
London: London, 2008
[New] ed. / with an introduction by D.J. Taylor
Michael Cullen leaves Nottingham and his pregnant girlfriend behind to flee to London. Here he becomes involved in a smuggling ring, headed by the shady...
Chinese fairytales
Book. English.
Published
London: Puffin, 2009
This selection of traditional Chinese fairytales includes classic fables such as 'Cowherd and Weaving Girl', 'The Invisible Bird' and 'Lover Cloud'
The stone book quartet
Book. English.
Published
London: Flamingo, 1999
This classic work of rural magic realism comprises four interconnected fables of a way of living in rural England that is now disappeared. Craftsmen pass...
Stuff
Book. English.
Published
London: Faber, 1997
Following the author's celebrated This Is It and Poor Souls, the darkly humorous Stuff centres around the extra-marital antics of husband and wife Emily...
Blind faith
Book. English.
Published
London: Bantam, 2007
Ben Elton's dark, savagely comic novel imagines a post-apocalyptic society where religious intolerance combines with a confessional sex obsessed, self...
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Old men in love: John Tunnock's posthumous papers
Book. English.
Published
London: Bloomsbury, 2009
Paperback UK ed
'Old Men in Love' constitutes the posthumous papers of a recondite - yet venal - retired Glaswegian schoolmaster, named John Tunnock
