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Room at the Top

John Braine

• Paperback | Engels | 20th Century
• "Remember the name John Braine. You'll be hearing quite a lot about him. Room at the Top is his first novel and it is a remarkable one . . . it's a lo... Lees meer

The Affirmation (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Christopher Priest

• Paperback | Engels
• "Priest writes extraordinarily well . . . his best novel to date . . . an atmosphere of increasingly oppressive menace." - Francis King, The Spectator... Lees meer

The Wing of Azrael

Mona Caird

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1888, a little-known writer named Mona Caird ignited a firestorm of controversy when she published her essay "Marriage" in The Westminster Review ,... Lees meer

Marmaduke Herbert; Or, the Fatal Error

Marguerite Blessington, Marguerite Countess of Blessington

• Paperback | Engels | Valancourt Classics
• The "fatal error" to which the title refers is Marmaduke Herbert's inadvertently occasioning the death of his wife's sister by causing her to fall off... Lees meer

Lusignan; or, The Abbaye of La Trappe

• Paperback | Engels
• Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) was the most popular and best-selling novelist of her time, earning a widespread readership and previously unheard-of sums o... Lees meer

The Hero; Or, the Adventures of a Night

Bellin de la Liborliere

• Paperback | Engels
• The French Revolution is over, and Mr. Dob, a tradesman made rich by the Revolution, has decided to start a library of the novels and romances of the ... Lees meer

In Maremma (Valancourt Classics)

Ouida

• Paperback | Engels | Valancourt Classics
• In Maremma, a desolate, pestilential wasteland on the Tuscan coast, the beautiful young orphan Musa, daughter of the infamous bandit Saturnino, lives ... Lees meer

The Stones of Muncaster Cathedral

Robert Westall

• Hardcover | Engels
• "I dreamt I was standing in the dark, looking up at the south-west tower ... And our Kev was up there on top, in the dark, and screaming as if some wi... Lees meer

The Witch and the Priest

Hilda Lewis

• Paperback | Engels | 20th Century
• "Her books are among the finest historical novels ever written." - Alison Weir "[O]rgies, spells, and rites . . . a tasty brew!" - Library Journal "Th... Lees meer

The Smaller Sky

John Wain

• Paperback | Engels | 20th Century
• 'A classic.' - Susan Hill, author of The Woman in Black and I'm King of the Castle 'John Wain's best novel in a long time . . . an interesting story .... Lees meer

A Second Coming

Richard Marsh

• Paperback | Engels
• "We cannot help wincing, cannot help feeling that the author has committed an error of taste, cannot help hoping with all the vigour at our command th... Lees meer

The Curse of the Wise Woman (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Lord Dunsany

• Paperback | Engels
• "Inventor of a new mythology and weaver of surprising folklore, Lord Dunsany stands dedicated to a strange world of fantastic beauty . . . unexcelled ... Lees meer

The Book of Life

C H B Kitchin

• Paperback | Engels
• 'One must admire the perfectly done thing, and this evocation of the late Edwardian age, told with ironic grace and subtlety, is the best thing of its... Lees meer

The Raker

Andrew Sinclair

• Paperback | Engels
• 'Andrew Sinclair is one of our most intelligent novelists.' - Scotsman 'Mr Sinclair is pure entertainment with his natty little tale about a hero who ... Lees meer

The God of the Labyrinth

Colin Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | 20th Century
• 'He writes a clear, light prose, and he makes his interests, however bizarre, seem important.' - Punch 'One of the more earnest and interesting writer... Lees meer

Sweetheart, Sweetheart

Bernard Taylor

• Paperback | Engels
• David Warwick, an Englishman living in New York, has a sudden premonition that his twin brother, Colin, is in danger. He returns to England and learns... Lees meer

The Mummy (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Riccardo Stephens, Mark Valentine

• Paperback | Engels
• Dr. Armiston, middle-aged bachelor and general practitioner, has his quiet and routine life interrupted when he is called in to consult on the deaths ... Lees meer

The Midnight Bell (Jane Austen Northanger Abbey Horrid Novels)

Francis Lathom

• Paperback | Engels | Gothic Classics
• Young Alphonsus Cohenburg enters his mother's bedroom and finds her covered in blood. She tells him his uncle has murdered his father, and orders him ... Lees meer

The Dark Glasses

Francis King

• Paperback | Engels
• "A beautifully constructed, beautifully modulated and balanced story. To say that this is a haunting book seems a cliché, but it is true." - Pamela Ha... Lees meer

Devils' Spawn

Charles Birkin, Charles Lloyd Birkin

• Paperback | Engels
• An important, though neglected, figure in twentieth-century British horror fiction, Sir Charles Birkin (1907-1985) began his literary career as editor... Lees meer

The Godsend (Valancourt 20th Century Classics)

Bernard Taylor

• Paperback | Engels
• Alan and Kate Marlowe are a typical, loving, middle-class couple, with four young children. But they wish they had just one more, a beautiful baby dau... Lees meer

Never Again

Francis King

• Paperback | Engels | 20th Century
• "One of our great writers, of the calibre of Graham Greene and Nabokov." - Beryl Bainbridge "He deserves the widest possible readership." - Melvyn Bra... Lees meer

The Graveyard School

Robert Blair, Edward Young

• Paperback | Engels
• The poetry of the Graveyard School - gloomy meditations on mortality, often composed in churchyards - was immensely popular in 18th-century England an... Lees meer

The Harness Room

L P Hartley

• Hardcover | Engels
• Colonel Macready thinks his bookish seventeen-year-old son Fergus is too soft, so he enlists the help of his manly chauffeur, Fred Carrington, to help... Lees meer