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Absolute Zero (The Bagthorpe Saga #2) by Helen Cresswell
Category: Classics | Series: Collins Modern Classics
The second book in the super-funny classic series The Bagthorpe Saga, starring the TOTALLY unforgettable Bagthorpe family - from best-loved author Helen Cresswell. Bad, mad and brilliant to know - the Bagthorpes are back! Something even stranger than normal is happening in the Bagsthorpe house. Ever sin ...Show more
All The Light We Cannot See (Collins Modern Classics) by Anthony Doerr
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
WINNER OF THE 2015 PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR FICTION A beautiful, stunningly ambitious novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation o ...Show more
Americanah (Collins Modern Classics) by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘A delicious, important novel' The Times ‘Alert, alive and gripping' Independent ‘Some novels tell a great story and others make you change the way you look at the world. Americanah does both.' Guardian As teenagers in a Lagos secondary school, Ifem ...Show more
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Winner of The Women's Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth.Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country's vice president, a lavish birthday party i ...Show more
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road wit ...Show more
By Grand Central Station I Sat down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Elizabeth Smart's passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as 'Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening ... A masterpiece'. One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George ...Show more
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson
Category: Biography | Series: Collins Modern Classics
Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson's ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream.'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold... And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sk ...Show more
Fellowship of the Ring (Lord of the Rings #1) by J.R.R. Tolkien
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics
The Fellowhip of the Ring is the first volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure, The Lord of the Rings, voted Book of the Century in major polls. In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Crack of Doom, ...Show more
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
Category: Science | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. 'Maths is one of the purest forms of thought, and to outsiders mathematicians may seem almo ...Show more
Harriet the Spy (Collins Modern Classic) by Louise Fitzhugh
Category: Children's Classic Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics
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If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come.On a street in a town in the North of England, ordinary people are going through the motions ...Show more
Journey to Jo'Burg (Essential Modern Classic) by Beverley Naidoo
Category: Picture Books | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
This is the story of love, commitment and the flowering of the human spirit against the background of South Africa's apartheid. Frightened that their baby sister Dineo will die, thirteen-year-old Naledi and her younger brother Tiro run away from their grandmother to Johannesburg to find their mother, wh ...Show more