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Miss Jean Brodie is a rare breed of teacher - passionate,
independent-minded and romantically inspired, with not the
slightest care for convention. She soon garners a devoted following
of six young girls, who will become known as 'the Brodie set', and
begins to shape them in her own image. But Miss Brodie is more than
just an individual with an intense desire to control and mould her
girls. Beneath the facade of this self-possessed woman lie some
sinister truths, and a keen interest in fascism ...A tour de force
of contemporary Scottish literature, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
by Muriel Spark is a compelling portrait of a woman's dark quest
for immortality. This Macmillan Collector's Library edition
features an afterword by publisher Anna South. 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.
Far from the Madding Crowd is perhaps the most pastoral of Hardy's
Wessex novels. It tells the story of the young farmer Gabriel Oak
and his love for and pursuit of the elusive Bathsheba Everdene,
whose wayward nature leads her to both tragedy and true love. It
tells of the dashing Sergeant Troy whose rakish philosophy of life
was '...the past was yesterday; never, the day after', and lastly,
of the introverted and reclusive gentleman farmer, Mr Boldwood,
whose love fills him with '...a fearful sense of exposure', when he
first sets eyes on Bathsheba. The background of this tale is the
Wessex countryside in all its moods, contriving to make it one of
the most English of great English novels.
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Before The Matrix, before Star Wars, before Ender's Game and Neuromancer, there was Dune, one of the greatest science fiction novels ever written.
Melange, or 'spice', is the most valuable - and rarest - element in the universe. And it can only be found on a single planet: the inhospitable desert world Arrakis.
Whoever controls Arrakis controls the spice. And whoever controls the spice controls the universe.
When stewardship of Arrakis is transferred to his house, Paul Atreides must travel to the planet's dangerous surface to ensure the future of his family and his people. But as malevolent forces explode into conflict around him, Paul is thrust into a great destiny beyond his understanding.
And in this game of power, only those who can conquer their fear will survive.
The next thrilling adventure, all NEW from MJ Porter Icel is a lone
wolf no more... Oath sworn to Wiglaf, King of Mercia and
acknowledged as a member of Ealdorman AElfstan's warrior band, Icel
continues to forge his own destiny on the path to becoming the
Warrior of Mercia. With King Ecgberht of Wessex defeated and
Londonium back under Mercian control, the Wessex invasion of Mercia
is over. But the Wessex king was never Mercia's only enemy. An
unknown danger lurks in the form of merciless Viking raiders, who
set their sights on infiltrating the waterways of the traitorous
breakaway kingdom of the East Angles, within touching distance of
Mercia's eastern borders. Icel must journey to the kingdom of the
East Angles and unite against a common enemy to ensure Mercia's
hard-won freedom prevails. Praise for MJ Porter 'Immediate and
personal' Bestselling author Matthew Harffy 'No lover of Dark Age
warfare is going to be disappointed. Personal, real, fascinating
and satisfying.' S.J.A. Turney 'If you love history, fiction,
adventure and great stories - You won't regret it!" Eric Schumacher
'MJ Porter recounts a sensitive, reluctant hero's coming-of-age
within a Dark Age realm riven by chaos and conflict' Bestselling
author Matthew Harffy 'Refreshing... I was reluctant to put the
book down' Historical Novel Society Readers are spell-bound 'So
real I felt I was there!... A page-turner' Reader review 'Wonderful
to read and hard to put down' Reader review 'I found the pages
flying by... A great book' Reader review
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