A tale of two cities

It begins on a muddy English road in an atmosphere charged with mystery and it ends in the Paris of the Revolution with one of the most famous acts of self-sacrifice in literature. In between lies one of Dickens?s most exciting books?a historical novel that, generation after generation, has given readers access to the profound human dramas that lie behind cataclysmic social and political events…

Oliver twist

Tells the story of a poor orphan's adventures in the criminal underworld of mid-nineteenth-century London.

A tale of two cities

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There, two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn agai…

A tale of two cities

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There, two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil lanes of London, they are all drawn agai…

1984

1984 by George Orwell is a dystopian novel set in a totalitarian society ruled by the Party, led by the figurehead known as Big Brother. The protagonist, Winston Smith, works for the Party rewriting history to align with its propaganda. In this oppressive world, individuality is suppressed, surveillance is constant, and truth is manipulated. Winston begins to question the Party's authority and …

1984

Winston Smith is a worker at the Ministry of Truth, where he falsifies records for the party. Secretly subversive, he and his colleague Julia try to free themselves from political slavery but the price of freedom is betrayal

The screaming staircase

When the dead come back to haunt the living, Lockwood and Co. step in ... For more than fifty years, the country has been affected by a horrifying epidemic of ghosts. A number of Psychic Investigations Agencies have sprung up to destroy the dangerous apparitions. Lucy Carlyle, a talented young agent, arrives in London hoping for a notable career. Instead she finds herself joining the smallest m…

Hollow city

Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world

A darker shade of magic

840L | Kell is one of the last Travelers -- magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes -- as such, he can choose where he lands. There's Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there's Red London, where life and magic are revered, and the Maresh Dynasty presides over a flourishing empire. White London, ruled by whoever …

A conjuring of light

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ISBN/ISSN

9781789091861

Collation

667 p. ; 20 cm.

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