Candide
£0.99A naive young optimist is battered by earthquakes, war, and the Inquisition while insisting this is still ‘the best of all possible worlds,’ in Voltaire’s savage satire.
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Democracy and Education
£1.99Dewey argues that education should cultivate democratic citizens through experience and inquiry, not rote memorisation — a book that reshaped American schooling.
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Three Men in a Boat
£1.99Three friends and a dog take a disastrous boating holiday up the Thames, in one of the funniest travel comedies ever written.
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Mansfield Park
£1.99Sent to live with wealthy relatives, quiet Fanny Price watches the family’s fortunes unravel through flirtation, scandal, and bad judgment.
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The History of Herodotus (Volume 1)
£1.99The ‘Father of History’ travels the ancient world recording the customs of Egypt, Persia, and Greece, and the wars between them — volume one of his sprawling account.
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The Big Bow Mystery
£0.99A journalist is found dead behind a locked and bolted door in one of the first great ‘impossible crime’ mysteries.
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Macbeth
£0.99A Scottish general murders his way to the throne on a witch’s prophecy, and finds the crown considerably heavier than expected.
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Discourse on the Method
£0.99Descartes doubts everything he can possibly doubt and rebuilds knowledge from a single certainty — ‘I think, therefore I am’ — in the founding text of modern philosophy.
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The Art of Money Getting
£0.99Showman P.T. Barnum’s blunt rules for building wealth, drawn from a career spent turning curiosities, hoaxes, and hard work into a fortune.
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The Federalist Papers
£1.99Hamilton, Madison, and Jay’s essays arguing for ratification of the U.S. Constitution remain the definitive explanation of how and why it was built the way it was.
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The Innocents Abroad
£1.99Mark Twain’s account of a raucous American pleasure cruise through Europe and the Holy Land, mocking tourists, tour guides, and Old World pretension in equal measure.
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The Invisible Man
£1.99A scientist discovers how to make himself invisible and quickly finds that invisibility is a far better weapon than a way of life.
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Rip Van Winkle
£0.99A henpecked villager falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes twenty years later to a world, and a country, he no longer recognises.
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The Dhammapada
£0.99A collection of the Buddha’s core teachings on suffering, mindfulness, and the path to liberation, condensed into short, quotable verses.
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The Age of Innocence
£1.99A New York lawyer is engaged to a proper society bride while falling for her scandal-tainted cousin, and old New York enforces its rules.
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Ethan Frome
£0.99A poor New England farmer’s loveless marriage and forbidden love collide in a single, devastating sled ride.
