CLASSICS SERIES Classics SERIES
Macmillan Collector’s Library Eleanor Atkinson, Mary Paulson-Ellis 287: Greyfriars Bobby Macmillan Collector’s Library, 13th May, hb, eb, £9.99, 9781529048766 Heartwarming story of Scotland’s most famous dog.
Margaret Atwood, Yevgeny Zamyatin We Canongate Canons, 6th May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838852368 Brilliant new translation of the dystopian classic that influenced George Orwell and Aldous Huxley, introduced by Margaret Atwood.
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Seasons Edition: Spring Jane Austen 9: Emma Tomas Nelson Fiction, 29th April, hb, £14.99, 9780785239741 Fine, exclusive edition of one of literature’s most beloved stories, with laser-cut jacket on a textured book and foil stamping. All titles in this series will be first editions.
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Te Complete Mapp and Lucia EF Benson Naxos AudioBooks, 1st March, audiobook, £49 Volume 1
9781781983591 Contains Queen Lucia, Miss Mapp and Lucia in London. Volume 2
9781781983607 Contains Mapp and Lucia, Lucia’s Progress and Trouble for Lucia.
Nina Berberova, Marian Schwarz (tr) The Last and the First Pushkin Press, 29th July, Book, eb, £12, 9781782276975 First English translation of celebrated émigré writer’s début novel: a taut, dark story of family conflict and the struggle to make a new life.
Seasons Edition: Spring Frances Hodgson Burnett 11: The Secret Garden Tomas Nelson Fiction, 29th April, hb, £14.99, 9780785239765 Exclusive edition with laser-cut jacket on a textured book and foil stamping.
Stephen Clarke Greek Orators Vii: Demosthenes 8: On the Chersonese Liverpool University Press, 1st March, hb, £90, 9781789622447 pb, £22.99, 9781789628159 Demosthenes focuses on Athenian relations with Philip in this crucial northern region and why Philip was a threat to Athenian interests in the area.
Isabel Colegate Statues in a Garden Bloomsbury, 10th June, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781526621603 “Isabel Colegate has no rival”—the Times. Introduced by Lucy Scholes, this is a devastating and evocative novel by one of the most important and neglected women writers of the 20th century.
Ivy Compton-Burnett A House and Its Head One, 25th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781911590392 Acerbic, brutal and mordantly funny— Compton-Burnett’s most unsparing dissection of the patriarchal family finally back in print.
Ivy Compton-Burnett More Women Than Men Pushkin Press, 27th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781911590415 Electrically witty story of a headmistress struggling to retain an iron grip on the hidden plots and allegiances in her girls’ school. Reissued for the first time in decades.
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Seasons Edition: Spring Arthur Conan Doyle 10: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Tomas Nelson Fiction, 29th April, hb, £14.99, 9780785239758 Exclusive edition with laser-cut jacket on a textured book and foil stamping.
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Baker Street Classics Arthur Conan Doyle Baker Street Press, 5th April, hb, £12.99, 97819124643 A Study in Scarlet
EM Delafield, Simon Thomas 9: Tension British Library, 13th May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780712353939 Explores the force of reputation and the persistence of gossip in relation to women’s choice of work and domestic arrangements, including the topic of whether or not to marry.
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Arcturus World Classics Library Fyodor Dostoyevsky 8: Crime and Punishment, The Gambler, Notes From Underground Arcturus, 1st July, hb, £16.99, 9781838573867 Handsome hardback collection brings together three of Dostoevsky’s most notable works.
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Te Forsyte Chronicles John Galsworthy 1: The Forsyte Saga
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First outing for the detective duo who are still entertaining readers around the world more than 130 years later. The Sign of the Four 71
“I am the only unofficial consulting detective.” The Hound of the Baskervilles 88
“Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!” The Valley of Fear 95 “The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn.”
Maria Dahvana Headley (tr) Beowulf: A New Feminist Translation of the Epic Poem Scribe UK, 11th March, pb, £9.99, 9781911617822 Translation brings to light elements that have never before been translated into English. By the author of the acclaimed novel The Mere Wife.
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British Library Women Writers
Naxos AudioBooks, 1st February, audiobook, £55, 9781781983447 Contains Book 1: The Man of Property, Interlude: Indian Summer of a Forsyte, Book 2: In Chancery, Interlude: Awakening and Book 3: To Let.
2: A Modern Comedy Naxos AudioBooks, 1st April, audiobook, £52, 9781781983683 Contains Book 1: The White Monkey, Interlude: A Silent Wooing, Book 2: The Silver Spoon, Interlude: Passers By and Book 3: Swan Song. 3: End of the Chapter Naxos AudioBooks, 1st June, audiobook, £49, 9781781983690 Contains Book 1: Maid in Waiting, Book 2: Flowering Wilderness and Book 3: Over the River.
Gaito Gazdanov, Bryan Karetnyk (tr) An Evening With Claire Pushkin Press, 24th June, Book, eb, £12, 9781782276050 The lyrical first novel of youth and love by acclaimed modernist master and author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf.
Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Nicola Sturgeon Sunset Song Canongate Canons, 1st April, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781838851972 The Scottish masterpiece, introduced by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
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Macmillan Collector’s Library Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Lucy Mangan 293: The Yellow Wallpaper & Herland Macmillan Collector’s Library, 24th June, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781529042320 Gilman’s famous short story on mental health is brought together with her feminist utopian novel Herland in this giftable hardback introduced by Lucy Mangan.
George Gissing The Odd Women Naxos AudioBooks, 1st March, audiobook, £33, 9781781983508 Fascinating and engaging portrayal of life as a Victorian woman, known for its pioneering feminist themes. Read by Juliet Stevenson.
Alasdair Gray, William Boyd Lanark: A Life in Four Books Canongate, 18th February, hb, eb, £20, 9781838852900
A 40th anniversary commemorative hardback edition of the modern classic, introduced by William Boyd.
Ann Julia Hatton, Elizabeth Edwards Cambrian Pictures Welsh Women’s Classics, 25th February, pb, eb, £11.99, 9781912905294 Witty, colourful, Romantic- period courtship novel, featuring a cross-dressing Welsh girl who duels with an unwelcome suitor and an ageing English aristocrat.
Willem Frederik Hermans, David Colmer (tr) Memories of a Guardian Angel Pushkin Press, 3rd June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781782276289 Dark, disorienting classic wartime thriller from the author of An Untouched House.
Daniel Hughes (ed), Nigel Heseltine A Day’s Pleasure and Other Tales Parthian Books, 2nd April, pb, eb, £10, 9781913640170 Heseltine is a long- neglected member of Wales’ golden generation of English-language short- story writers. Ranging from starkly surreal to subtly moving, these tales reveal him as a singularly talented writer.
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Seasons Edition: Spring Victor Hugo
12: The Hunchback of Notre Dame Tomas Nelson Fiction, 29th April, hb, £14.99, 9780785239772 Exclusive edition with laser-cut jacket on a textured book and foil stamping.
Rachel Ingalls Mrs Caliban Faber & Faber, 1st July, pb, eb, £8.99, 9780571367986 The amphibious cult classic. When a lonely suburban housewife falls in love with a frogman called Larry, their lives will never be the same.
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Arcturus World Classics Library Henry James 7: The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, Washington Square Arcturus, 1st July, hb, £16.99, 9781838573881 James is considered one of the great American novelists and this collection brings together three of his best works.
James Joyce Ulysses riverrun, 16th June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781529405538 Dazzling new edition of the modernist classic. This riverrun edition presents the version of Ulysses that contains the changes that were approved by Joyce during his lifetime.
James Joyce Finnegans Wake Naxos AudioBooks, 1st June, audiobook, £42, 9781781983669 Joyce’s famous final novel. The first commercially available unabridged recording, read by Barry McGovern with Marcella Riordan.
Margaret Kennedy The Feast Faber & Faber, 3rd June, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780571367795 This summery rediscovered gem will make you nostalgic for 1940s seaside holidays. A Cornish hotel is mysteriously buried by a landslide but what bought its eccentric guests together?
Alisha Knight (ed), John Gruesser (ed), Pauline Hopkins Hagar’s Daughter Broadview Press, 28th February, pb, £18.95, 9781554815630 Hopkins’ first serial novel, published in the Boston- based Colored American Magazine (1901-02). The novel features concealed and mistaken identities, dramatic revelations and extraordinary plot twists.
Nisha Kommattam (ed), Margaret Sönser Breen (ed), Aimée Duc Are They Women? Broadview Press, 28th February, pb, £18.95, 9781554814800 Explores the lively communities of lesbians across turn-of-the-century Central Europe. This is one of the first lesbian novels written in German— indeed, in any language.
George Mackay Brown, Tallack Malachy (ed) George Mackay Brown Selected Short Stories Polygon, 4th February, pb, £12.99, 9781846975172 Selection of magical stories drawn from ancient lore and modern life and stripped down to the essentials.
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Macmillan Collector’s Library Katherine Mansfield, Meg Jensen (ed) 294: Prelude &
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