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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£13.25 audiobook on CD (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781445879178 | ISBN 10: 1445879174
BAFTA® award-winning actress Miriam Margolyes performs her one-woman tour-de-force. Miriam Margolyes (Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films) sparkles and delights in her one-woman show where she plays 23 different roles - men and women - ... more
View book details£16.99 hardback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780199645886 | ISBN 10: 0199645884
The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationall ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099540793 | ISBN 10: 0099540797
When Nicholas's father dies he, his mother and sister, Kate, are left penniless. To earn his keep, Nicholas becomes a tutor at Dotheboys Hall but soon discovers that the headmaster, Wackford Squeers, is a one eyed tyrant who insists on a harsh regime ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099540687 | ISBN 10: 0099540681
Gentle Nell Trent lives a simple, if solitary life with her doting grandfather in his curiosity shop. Her parents died in poverty and unbeknownst to Nell her grandfather is obsessed with winning her an inheritance through gambling, but is forced to b ... more
View book details£5.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780099511854 | ISBN 10: 0099511851
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the Bastille. Finally reunited, the Manettes' fortunes beco ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199536252 | ISBN 10: 0199536252
Following his father's death John Harmon returns to London to claim his inheritance, but he finds he is eligible only if he marries Bella Wilfur. To observe her character he assumes another identity and secures work with his father's foreman, Mr Boff ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199536306 | ISBN 10: 0199536309
'What was merry Christmas to Scrooge? Out upon merry Christmas! What good had it ever done to him?' Ebenezer Scrooge is a bad-tempered skinflint who hates Christmas and all it stands for, but a ghostly visitor foretells three apparit ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780719569944 | ISBN 10: 071956994x
'You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780141439747 | ISBN 10: 0141439742
‘Let him feel that he is one of us; once fill his mind with the idea that he has been a thief, and he’s ours, – ours for his life!’ The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, ... more
View book details£5.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780141439563 | ISBN 10: 0141439564
‘It was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me’ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens begins with a terrifying encounter with an escaped convic ... more
View book details£2.50 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781853267390 | ISBN 10: 1853267392
This vivid historical and political novel by Dickens is centred on the infamous 'No Popery' riots, instigated by Lord George Gordon, which terrorised London in 1780. Dickens' targets are prejudice, intolerance, religious bigotry and nationalistic fer ... more
View book details£2.50 paperback (1996) - ISBN 13: 9781853261824 | ISBN 10: 1853261823
Little Dorrit is a classic tale of imprisonment, both literal and metaphorical, while Dickens' working title for the novel, Nobody's Fault, highlights its concern with personal responsibility in private and public life. Dickens' childhoo ... more
View book details£2.50 paperback (1992) - ISBN 13: 9781853260520 | ISBN 10: 1853260525
The Pickwick Papers is Dickens' first novel and widely regarded as one of the major classics of comic writing in English. Originally serialised in monthly instalments, it quickly became a huge popular success with sales reaching 40,000 by the final p ... more
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