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A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
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Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
A Town Like Alice The Legacy by Nevil Shute Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to ...Show more
Aesop's Fables by Aesop
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Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will delight young and old readers alike. Here are all the age-old favourites - the wily fox, the vain peacock, the predatory cat and the steady tortoise - just as endearingly vivid a ...Show more
Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc
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Category: No Category | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
First published in 1907 and in print ever since, Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children is a deliciously witty parody of the terribly serious moral tales for children, which were popular in Victorian times. Terrifying and funny at the same time, and with a true sense of the absurd, Belloc brings ...Show more
Five Children and It (Macmillan Collector's Library) by E. Nesbit
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
** NEW ** Whilst out playing in the countryside, five children come across a Psammead called 'It' – a cantankerous little sand fairy who agrees to grant them one wish every day, though its effects will only last until sunset. The possibilities seem endless to the adventurous siblings but whatever th ...Show more
Funeral Readings and Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Various
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Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
To find solace from grief, we have always turned to the written word. With poetry and prose spanning continents, religions and cultures, this moving anthology examines loss, celebrates lives well lived and offers words of consolation.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning clothb ...Show more
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
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Category: Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of Moby-Dick features an afterword by Nigel Clif ...Show more
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
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Category: Vintage Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Broadly comedic and brilliantly postmodern in its lampooning of a genre, the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey tells the story of Catherine Morland, a naive young woman whose perceptions of the world around her are greatly influenced by the romantic gothic novels to which she is addicted. When she mo ...Show more
Poems About Birds by H. J. Massingham
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Category: Poetry | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Countless writers have been inspired by the beauty of birds - their colours, their easy flight, their lightness and softness, and the grace and whimsicality of their ways. Our literature, especially our poetry, is full of them. This annotated edition of Poems About Birds selects the very best from H. J. ...Show more
The African Queen (Macmillan Collector's Library) by C. S. Forester
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Category: Default | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Central Africa, 1914; Rose Sayer, a thirty-three year-old English woman, is left alone when her missionary brother dies. Her only route out is aboard The African Queen, a steam-powered launch captained by Cockney mechanic, Charlie Alnutt. Determined to do her bit for the war effort and to avenge her bro ...Show more
The Art of Solitude: Selected Writings by VARIOUS
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Category: Humour, Novelty and Gifts | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic writing to reclaim the pleasure of your own company.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or ...Show more
The Gardener's Year (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Karel Capek
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Category: Humour, Novelty and Gifts | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Gardener’s Year is a charming and light-hearted insight into the life of an amateur gardener. Structured loosely around what to plant, grow or cultivate each month, Karel Capek takes us on a rollicking journey through a year in his own small garden. Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Col ...Show more
The Joy of Walking: Selected Writings by Various
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Category: Humour, Novelty and Gifts | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Classic writers remind us to saunter, march, prowl and wander in this gorgeously curated collection of writing for the everyday walker.Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning pocket size classics. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This editio ...Show more