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C (Booker10 Shortlist)

"C" follows the short, intense life of Serge Carrefax, a man who - as his name suggests - surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that will obliterate him....

Caesar (Masters of Rome)

Rome`s leaders are frightened: the brilliant, ruthless Gaius Julius Caesar must be crushed before he can overthrow the government and become dictator. This magnificent novel opens in Gaul, scene of Caesar`s...

Caesars Women (Masters of Rome)

"Caesar`s Women" is the story of Gaius Julius Caesar`s relentless rise to prominence, beginning with his return to Rome in 68BC. He comes prepared to dominate a new battlefield - the Roman Forum. But his victories are...

Cakes and Ale

W.S. Maugham

With an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare "Cakes and Ale" is both a wickedly satirical novel about contemporary literary poseurs and a skilfully crafted study of freedom. As he traces the fortunes of Edward...

Call of Cthulhu & Other Weird Tales (Vintage Classics)

Between these pages you will find things that lurk, things that scurry in the walls, things that move unseen, things that have learnt to walk that ought to crawl, unfathomable blackness, unconquerable evil, inhuman...

Camellia

Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother`s body is fished from a river in rural Sussex. And when she discovers a cache of letters amongst her mother`s effects she realises that the past she has always...

Camellia

Campus Trilogy

`One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era` - Time Out. Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.

Can You Keep a Secret? (A)

Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were...

Can you keep a secret?

Kinsella

Secrets from her mother: 1. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben Hur. ...From her boyfriend: 2. I`m a size twelve. Not a size eight, like Connor...

Candyfloss

Floss`s parents split up when she was younger and she now divides up her week, spending five days with her mum, her mum`s new boyfriend and her new baby half-brother. The other two days Floss spends with her dad,...

Captain Blood

Wrongfully arrested following the Monmouth rebellion of 1685, Peter Blood, country physician and former soldier, escapes the hangman`s noose only to be exiled to the tropical colonies. Sold into slavery to a cruel...

Captain and the Enemy (Vintage Classics)

A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor`s father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live...

Captain Corellis Mandolin Ned

It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far...

Captive Queen

It is the year 1152 and a beautiful woman of thirty, attended by only a small armed escort, is riding like the wind southwards through what is now France, leaving behind her crown, her two young daughters and a...

Cargo Of Eagles

Carpet People (A)

Carry On, Jeeves Ned

These marvellous stories introduce us to Jeeves, whose first ever duty is to cure Bertie`s raging hangover ("If you would drink this, it is a little preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcester Sauce that...

Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

`It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn...

Castles Of Steel

Cat

F. North

Cat And Mouse

Cat Who Came in from the Cold

The little cat Deric Longden saw sitting forlornly on an upturned bucket belonged to the neighbours, but somehow when it began to rain it seemed only natural to bring him inside. Once there he slipped so easily into...

Catalina

Crippled and disconsolate, sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. Yet that is when she miraculously meets and talks with the Blessed Virgin as...

Catch-22

Hilarious and tragic, at the heart of "Catch-22" is a savage indictment of twentieth-century madness, and a desire of the ordinary man to survive it.