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Absolute Beginners
Colin MacInnes
A Twentieth Century Classic
London, 1958-Soho, Notting Hill... a world of smoky jazz clubs, coffee bars, and hip hangouts in the center of London's emerging youth culture. The young and restless – the absolute beginners – were creating a world as different as they dared from t...
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Alfie
Bill Naughton
Alfie’s not really a bad guy. It’s just that he has this overwhelming desire for the ladies. You might say that ‘birds’ are irresistible to him, sort of second nature. There’s Ruby - ‘A lust box in beautiful condition’; Clare - ‘You’re ...
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Amistad
David Pesci
The gripping novel based on a true story of slavery
Please make court understand we free men who want be free again. We want go home. We pray you to win our case. You our friend. We trust you.
In 1839, fifty-three African slaves staged a bloody mutiny on board the Amistad, a Spanish slav...
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City of Spades
Colin MacInnes
London, 1957. Victoria Station is awash with boat trains discharging hopeful black immigrants into a cold and alien motherland. Liberal England is about to discover the legacy of Empire. And when Montgomery Pew, assistant welfare officer in the Colonial Department, meets Johnny Fortune, re...
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Falstaff
Robert Nye
An Allison & Busby Classic - new reissue
Expansive, sprawling, unruly and oversized - like his stomach and everything about him, the memoirs of the most beloved comic figure in the history of literature take the unsuspecting reader into the world of a character so audacious that, app...
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