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classic, The Secret Garden (1911) is as enchant- ing as it is moving. New edition features a deluxe cover, ribbon mark- ers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges.
Aesop Aesop’s Fables Flame Tree Publishing, 15th May, hb, £9.99, 9781839641800 Brings together the best of the fables to showcase the best of their warm humour and wise insights into everyday life. New edition with deluxe cover and gilded edges.
Frances Hodgson Burnett, Charles Robinson (illus) The Secret Garden Arcturus, 1st February, pb, £6.99, 9781838575205 Burnett’s best-loved is guaranteed to enchant readers aged 8+. This is a lovely paperback edition to celebrate the 2019 film tie-in.
Jenni Calder (ed) Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley Luath Press, 15th March, hb, eb, £19.99, 9781910021262 The first historical novel in the western tradition, Waverley is an iconic Scottish book, and this redaction was originally published to coincide with its 200th anniversary.
Ciaran Carson (tr) The Inferno Head of Zeus, 5th March, pb, eb, £12.99, 9781838933234 The first volume of Dante Alighieri’s iconic Divine Comedy retold for the 21st-century reader.
Louisa May Alcott Little Women Flame Tree Publishing, 15th April, hb, £9.99, 9781839641749 The lives of four teenage sisters, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy, unfold in this treasured classic. New collectable edition with deluxe cover, ribbon markers and gilded edges.
Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales Flame Tree Publishing, 15th April, hb, £20, 9781839641657 Celebrates Andersen’s unique literary output and gathers together much-loved tales such as The Little Mermaid, The Emperor’s New Clothes, and The Snow Queen.
Martha Griffith Browne Autobiography of a Female Slave Arcturus, 15th April, pb, £6.99, 9781789500752 In a compelling 1857 novel so strongly grounded in reality it is hard to believe it’s fiction, Browne brings the traditional slave narrative to a new level.
Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden Flame Tree Publishing, 15th April, hb, £9.99, 9781839641725 An enduring children’s
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Alma Classics Evergreens Kate Chopin Vol 87: The Awakening Alma Books, 2nd February, pb, eb, £5.99, 9781847498250 Widely seen as a land- mark of early feminism and a precursor of American modernism.
Agatha Christie Death on the Nile HarperFiction, 9th July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008328917 Christie’s most exotic murder mystery, repack- aged with a contemporary cover to appeal to a new generation of fans and exclusive to Waterstones.
Isabel Colegate, Ali Smith Orlando King Bloomsbury, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781526615589 Masterpiece of one of the most important and overlooked British women writers of the 20th century. “Isabel Colegate has no rival”—the Times.
Wilkie Collins Armadale Naxos AudioBooks, 1st March, audiobook, £49, 9781781982624 The follow-up to The Woman in White and No Name. An innovative take on mistaken identity and the nature of evil. Read by Nicholas Boulton and cast.
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Alma Classics Evergreens Joseph Conrad Vol 88: The Secret Agent Alma Books, 3rd February, pb, eb, £5.99, 9781847498267 Story of espionage, intrigue and corruption based on a real-life attempted terrorist attack in Victorian London.
John Curran Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks HarperFiction, 19th March, pb, eb, £14.99, 9780008129637 Fascinating volume brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making and includes illustrations, deleted extracts, two unpublished Poirot stories and a lost of Miss Marple.
Len Deighton Len Deighton’s French Cooking for Men HarperFiction, 14th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008328375 New edition of the celebrated cookery classic, featuring 50 cookstrips that will solve the mysteries of French cuisine and unlock the key to 500 memorable dishes.
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British Library Women Writers Vina Delmar, Simon Thomas Vol 2: Bad Girl British Library Publishing, 5th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780712353175 A bestseller in its day, Delmar’s 1928 novel explores the realities and risks of the urban whirl taking place around the novel’s main protagonist, Dot, in 1920s Harlem.
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Macmillan Collector’s Library Charles Dickens, Lucinda Dickens Hawksley, Marcus Stone (illus) Vol 222: Our Mutual Friend Macmillan Collector’s Library, 6th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781529011746 Magnificent novel about love, greed and hidden identity, with an intro- duction by Lucinda Dickens Hawksley. Charles Dickens, David Stuart Davies, HK Browne (illus) Vol 223: Bleak House 9781509825424 Dickens’ satirical novel about family greed and corruption in the Brit- ish court system, with an afterword by Davies and original illustra- tions by Browne.
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Alma Classics Evergreens Charles Dickens Vol 91: Bleak House Alma Books, 21st May, pb, £6.99, 9781847496713 One of the great chases of the detective genre.
Charles Dickens, Judith John Hard Times Flame Tree Publishing, 15th February, hb, £9.99, 9781787557918 Published in 1854 and set in Coketown in the north of England, this highlights the environmental pollution and worker exploitation of Victorian capitalism. A Flame Tree collectable Classic with deluxe cover, gilded edges.
SS Van Dine The Benson Murder Case Flame Tree Publishing, 15th March, hb, £9.99, 9781839641572 Intellectual dandy Philo Vance comes to the aid of District Attorney Markham in the case of murdered stockbroker Alvin Benson. New glos- sary and biography.
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Alma Classics 101 Pages Fyodor Dostoevsky Vol 20: Uncle’s Dream Alma Books, 21st February, pb, eb, £5.99, 9781847497680 Humorous drawing-room novella and a satire of Russian society that can be enjoyed as a lighter counterpoint to the author’s later works.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky The House of the Dead Naxos AudioBooks, 1st March, audiobook, £27, 9781781982600 Semi-autobiographical account of life in a prison camp, completed after Dostoyevsky’s own term as a convict. Read by Nicholas Boulton.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Natasha Randall Notes From Underground Canongate Canons, 2nd April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781786899002 Groundbreaking new translation of Dostoyevsky’s most radi- cal work of fiction. Intro- duced by DBC Pierre.
Theodor Fontane Effi Briest Naxos AudioBooks, 1st April, audiobook, £19.50, 9781781982686 Tells of a passionate young woman trapped in a restrictive
upper-class existence. Read by Lucy Scott.
Gaito Gazdanov, Bryan Karetnyk (tr) An Evening With Claire Pushkin Collection, 30th July, pb, £12, 9781782276050 Lyrical first novel of youth and love by an acclaimed modernist master and author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon Sunset Song Canongate Books, 6th February, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781786898616 Grassic Gibbon’s cele- brated novel, regarded by many as the best Scot- tish book of all time.
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All books in the series have an extensive criti- cal apparatus and extra reading material includ- ing a section of photo- graphs and notes. Kahlil Gibran Vol 89: The Prophet Alma Books, 3rd March, pb, eb, £5.99, 9781847498274
Brothers Grimm Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales Flame Tree Publishing, 15th April, hb, £9.99, 9781839641732 Old-time favourites include Little Red-Cap, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin and Hansel and Gretel, as well as lesser-known stories. Unabridged and includes a glossary of Victorian and liter- ary terms. Flame Tree Collectable Classic
Thomas Hardy, Judith John Tess of the D’urbervilles Flame Tree Publishing, 15th February, hb, £9.99, 9781787557949 Flame Tree Collectable Classic tells the story of Tess and her search for fortune in a moving look into a Victorian world we have left behind. Deluxe cover treatment, ribbon markers and gilded edges.
Thomas Hardy Far From the Madding Crowd Flame Tree Publishing, 15th May, hb, £9.99, 9781839641824 Hardy’s perennially popular and oft-adapted fourth novel follows the intertwining lives of its characters to unfold as one of the greatest love stories of all time. Flame Tree Collectable Classic.
Gerhart Hauptmann, Bayard Quincy
Morgan (tr) The Heretic of Soana Calder / Alma Classics, 26th March, pb, £9.99, 9780714549682 Multi-layered tale widely regarded as the grand achievement of Hauptmann, the recipi- ent of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Macmillan Collector’s Library Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner (tr), John Peacock Vol 242: Siddhartha Macmillan Collector’s Library, 14th May, hb, eb, £9.99, 9781529024043 A young man travels through ancient India in search of enlightenment.
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Alma Classics 101 Pages ETA Hoffman Vol 22: Mlle De Scuderi Alma Books, 21st May, pb, eb, £5.99, 9781847498335 Hoffmann’s tale has inspired and delighted writers and readers since it was written and remains a benchmark for all modern crime novels.
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Macmillan Collector’s Library Homer, Natalie Haynes, Ernest Myers (tr), Walter Leaf (tr), Andrew Lang (tr) Vol 237: The Iliad Macmillan Collector’s Library, 2nd April, hb, eb, £9.99, 9781529015003 Gorgeous pocket-sized edition of Homer’s epic poem, introduced by author and classicist Natalie Haynes.
EW Hornung An Amateur Cracksman Flame Tree Publishing, 15th March, hb, £9.99, 9781839641558 In this collection of thrilling tales, Hornung casts master criminal AJ Raffles as his ignoble hero. A renowned London socialite, Raffles is an ingenious master of thievery and disguise.
Robert P Irvine (ed), Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice Broadview Press, 30th March, pb, £11.95, 9781554814893 Sets the novel in the context of the period’s literary and intellectual history, dealing with issues such as class relations, female inequality and the impact of the French Revolution.
Washington Irving The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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