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Paul is an artistic young man coming of age in a gritty English mining community, struggling to free himself from the influence of his devoted and strong-willed mother as he searches for love and attempts to establish his own identity.

The marriage of Gertrude and Walter Morel has become a battleground. Repelled by her uneducated and sometimes violent husband, delicate Gertrude devotes her life to her children, especially to her sons, William and Paul - determined they will not follow their father into working down the coal min...

A novel which describes the dissolution of the once aristocratic Compson family in the American South, told through the eyes of three of its members. In different ways they prove unable to deal with either the responsibility of the past or the imperatives of the present.

Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In 1914, Shackleton led a party of men hoping to be the first to traverse the Antarctic, but when their ship became crushed by ice 350 miles from land, the expedition soon became a matter of life and death.

There's a corpse in the freezer at Pacific Pastoral meat-packing works in Melbourne's outer suburbs. Trust Murray Whelan—minder, fixer and general dogsbody for the Minister for Industry—to sort this mess out.

This elegant gift edition of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is the classic story of a man with two very different personalities. This gothic horror novel is presented alongside five short stories by author Robert Louis Stevenson. Discover the mesmerizing tale of two personalities in ...