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  • Room at the Top

    by John Braine ...
    "Remember the name John Braine. You'll be hearing quite a lot about him. Room at the Top is his first novel and it is a remarkable one . . . it's a long time since we heard the hunger of youth really snarling and it's a good sound to hear again." - Sunday Times"The most discussed, debated and lauded first novel of the year." - New York Times"This novel is brilliant . . . The observation is shrewd ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Life at the Top

    by John Braine ...
    Series series Valancourt 20th Century Classics
    "It deserves its success. It is very far from being a mere frivolous bestseller." - Anthony Burgess,Observer"Alive from the first moment to the last." - Listener"John Braine has brilliantly repeated the success of his first novel." - Arthur Calder-Marshall, Financial TimesIn John Braine's remarkable first novel, Room at the Top (1957), he introduced readers to Joe Lampton, a ruthlessly ambitious ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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    Room At The Top

    by John Braine ...
    Narrated by Kevin Whately ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 58 min

    Braine's first and most successful novel of working-class 'angst' and the struggle of 'angry young man' Joe Lampton. Anxious to climb the social ladder by whatever means possible in post-war Britain, he is determined to make something of himself, targeting a high-paid job. He notices a young man with an expensive car and a pretty girlfriend and realises that this lifestyle and appearance is what ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Saturday Night And Sunday Morning

    by Alan Sillitoe ...
    Narrated by Linus Roache ...

    Abridged

    2 hours 56 min

    Alan Sillitoe was an integral part of the Angry Young Men movement of the fifties that focused on its authentic depiction of real working class people. This book is true to their ideals in its raw sharp writing of the story of a young man framed by his brutal experience in the army and as a factory worker. Fuelled by a bleak aggressive outlook on life the book centres around a boozy, philandering ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Moab Is My Washpot

    by Stephen Fry ...
    A number one bestseller in Britain, Stephen Fry's astonishingly frank, funny, wise memoir is the book that his fans everywhere have been waiting for. Since his PBS television debut in the Blackadder series, the American profile of this multitalented writer, actor and comedian has grown steadily, especially in the wake of his title role in the film Wilde, which earned him a Golden Globe nomination, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Class

    by Jilly Cooper OBE ...
    CLASS IS DEAD!Or so everyone claims. Who better to refute this than Jilly Cooper!Describing herself as 'upper middle class', Jilly claims that snobbery is very much alive and thriving! Meet her hilarious characters! People like Harry Stow-Crat, Mr and Mrs Nouveau-Richards, Samantha and Gideon Upward, and Jen Teale and her husband Brian. Roar with laughter at her horribly unfair observations on ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Seven Years

    by Peter Robinson ...
    Series Book 6 - Bibliomysteries
    A gripping novella from the New York Times–bestselling author of the Inspector Banks Mysteries and a "master of the art" ( The Boston Globe).Retired Cambridge professor Donald Aitcheson loves scouring antiquarian bookshops for secondhand treasures—as much as he loathes the scribbled marginalia from their previous owners. But when he comes upon an inscription in a volume of Robert Browning's poetry ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Bookworm

    A Memoir of Childhood Reading

    by Lucy Mangan ...
    **A love letter to the joys of childhood reading from Wonderland to Narnia.When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up new worlds and cast light on all the complexities she encountered in this one.**She was whisked away to Narnia - and Kirrin Island - and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. She ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • So, Anyway...

    A Memoir

    by John Cleese ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “John Cleese’s memoir is just about everything one would expect of its author—smart, thoughtful, provocative and above all funny. . . . A picture, if you will, of the artist as a young man.”—The Washington PostThe legendary writer and performer of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers fame takes readers on a grand tour of his ascent in the entertainment worldJohn Cleese’s huge ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Card From Angela Carter

    by Susannah Clapp ...
    Angela Carter was one of the most vivid voices of the twentieth century. When she died in 1992 at the age of fifty-one, she had published fifteen books of fiction and essays; outrage at her omission from any Booker Prize shortlists led to the foundation of the Orange Prize.Angela Carter sent her friend Susannah Clapp postcards from all over the world, missives which form a paper trail through her ... Read more

    $9.69 USD

  • Time to Be in Earnest

    by P. D. James ...
    In 1997, P. D. James, the much loved and internationally acclaimed author of mysteries, turned seventy-seven. Taking to heart Dr. Johnson's advice that at seventy-seven it is "time to be in earnest," she decided to undertake a book unlike any she had written before: a personal memoir in the form of a diary. This enchanting and highly original volume is the result. Structured as the diary of a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Everything I Know About Writing

    by John Marsden ...
    John Marsden is not just one of Australia's most successful writers of all time; he's also one of our best teachers of writing."Highly recommended" Sun Herald"The most exciting, interesting and useful book on the teaching of writing" Australian English TeacherThe ultimate "get off your bum and do it" book, Everything I Know About Writing will motivate anyone to write. It's... ... Read more

    $5.79 USD