CLASSICS
Flame Tree Publishing, 15th May, hb, £9.99, 9781839641831 Collectable Classic edition of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and other stories including Rip Van Winkle.
Henry James The Beast in the Jungle Naxos AudioBooks, 1st June, audiobook, £7, 9781781982761 Profound and haunting story about crippling obsession and a life unlived. Written soon after The Wings of the Dove. Read by Kris Dyer.
Henry James The Turn of the Screw Arcturus, 15th March, hb, £9.99, 9781839402319 Uneasy and sinister novella is a genius work of horror fiction surrounding the terrors that emerge from everyday life. This elegantly designed hardback edition is the perfect gift.
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Macmillan Collector’s Library Jerome K Jerome, David Stuart Davies, A Frederics (illus) Vol 243: Three Men in a Boat Macmillan Collector’s Library, 9th July, hb, eb, £9.99, 9781529024012 Beautiful gift edition of a classic comic novel.
Judith John, Mark Twain The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Flame Tree Publishing, 15th May, hb, £9.99, 9781839641787 Comic yet incisive portrait of 19th century America. Collectable Classic edition.
James Joyce A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man Flame Tree Publishing, 15th April, hb, £9.99, 9781839641763 Joyce’s first novel is a captivating evocation of the emotional, intellectual and creative coming of age of the young Stephen Dedalus, essentially Joyce’s alter ego. Flame Tree Collectable Classic
James Joyce, Sam Slote (ed) Finnegans Wake Alma Classics, 26th March, pb, £7.99, 9781847498007 Fully incorporates Joyce’s manuscript amend- ments and includes a critical introduction by Dr Sam Slote of Trin- ity College Dublin.
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Macmillan Collector’s Library
Franz Kafka,
David Stuart Davies, Douglas Scott (tr), Chris Waller (tr) Vol 241: The Trial Macmillan Collector’s Library, 14th May, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781529021073 Beautiful gift edition of Kafka’s classic psychological novel with an afterword by Davies.
Franz Kafka He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka riverrun, 11th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781787478213 A Kafka emergency kit—a congregation of the minor works that are actually major.
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Macmillan Collector’s Library Nella Larsen, Christa Holm Vogelius Vol 250: Passing Macmillan Collector’s Library, 25th June, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781529040289 Gorgeous edition of Larsen’s powerful classic novel on female racial identity, with an introduction by Vogelius.
Maurice Leblanc Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar Naxos AudioBooks, 1st April, audiobook, £16, 9781781982662 First of Leblanc’s collec- tions about his devilish, debonair rogue. Read by David Timson.
Charlotte Lennox The Female Quixote Naxos AudioBooks, 1st March, audiobook, £33, 9781781982563 Young, wealthy Arabella embarks on a series of hilarious misadventures, like Don Quixote before her. Read by Juliet Stevenson.
Kirsten Lodge (ed), Yevgeny Zamyatin We Broadview Press, 28th February, pb, £18.95, 9781554814107 Written in the early 1920s as the new govern- ment of the Soviet Union was beginning to show its authoritar- ian character, We is one of the great classics of dystopian fiction.
Jack London The Call of the Wild Arcturus, 1st February, hb, £9.99, 9781838577513 Elegantly designed new edition of London’s atmospheric story of adventure and endurance to celebrate the new 2020 film adaptation.
Ada Lovelace, Miranda Seymour, Sydney Padua (illus) The Neapolitan Brothers Bodleian Library, 3rd April, hb, £9.99, 9781851245468 An electrifying recent discovery. A wonderfully lively and imaginative story by Byron’s daughter, Ada Lovelace.
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Alma Classics 101 Pages Niccolò Machiavelli Vol 21: The Life of Castruccio Castracani Alma Books, 26th March, pb, eb, £5.99, 9781847498328 Revealing account of the political ferment and factionalism of 14th-century Italy.
Alistair MacLean Captain Cook HarperFiction, 20th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780007371983 On the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s successful voyage to the coast of Australia, this is the absorbing story of one of Britain’s great national heroes.
Alistair MacLean The Dark Crusader HarperFiction, 23rd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008337414 From the acclaimed master of action and suspense comes a clas- sic novel of mysteri- ous disappearances and secret agents.
Alistair MacLean Caravan to Vaccares HarperFiction, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008337490 Tale of suspense set in Provence, where an English tourist inves- tigates a series of mysterious deaths.
Alistair MacLean Puppet on a Chain HarperFiction, 11th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008337506 Classic thriller set in Amsterdam.
Alistair McLean Force 10 From Navarone HarperFiction, 23rd July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780008337308 The thrilling sequel to the classic masterpiece of World War II adventure, The Guns of Navarone.
Herman Melville Moby Dick Flame Tree Publishing, 15th February, hb, £9.99, 9781787557901 Herman Melville wrote Moby Dick in 1851 but it took decades before it was regarded as a great Amer- ican novel. Unabridged, with a glossary of Victo- rian and literary terms.
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Macmillan Collector’s Library LM Montgomery Vol 246: Anne of Avonlea Macmillan Collector’s Library, 9th July, hb, eb, £9.99, 9781529031836 The second book in Lucy Maud Montgomery’s much-loved Anne of Green Gables series.
Arthur Morrison Martin Hewitt, Investigator Flame Tree Publishing, 15th March, hb, £9.99, 9781839641541 Gathered here are 12 of the titular hero’s adventures, including The Case of the Dixon Torpedo, showcasing the shrewd, charming protagonist at work. With new glossary and biography.
VS Naipaul In a Free State Picador, 20th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529014051 Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971, In a Free State is one of Naipaul’s best-loved works, a story of disenfranchisement and the search for belonging.
VS Naipaul
The Enigma of Arrival Picador, 20th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529014082 Moving and beautiful novel told with great dignity, compassion and candour.
VS Naipaul
A Bend in the River Picador, 20th February, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529014099 A great novel of Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
JG Nichols (tr), Ugo Foscolo Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis Alma Classics, 3rd February, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781847498403 Masterly prose work by one of Italy’s most celebrated poets and perhaps the great- est Italian novel of the Romantic movement.
Patrick O’Brian Men-of-War HarperFiction, 14th May, hb, eb, £14.99, 9780008355999 Out of print for many years, this is a new edition of the defini- tive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey- Maturin series of novels.
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British Library Women Writers Mollie Panter-Downes, Simon Thomas Vol 3: My Husband Simon
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