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A happy death
2,000 LIs it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus’s astonishing early novel, published posthumously and greeted as a major literary event. It tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society’s rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man.
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The unconscious
1,650 LOne of Freud’s central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious, from where they continue to exert a decisive influence over our lives.
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The first man
1,700 LThe incomplete manuscript of The First Man, which Camus had referred to as “the novel of my maturity,” was found in a mud-spattered briefcase near the wreckage of the car in which Camus died in January of 1960, when he was forty-six. Partly a novel of childhood and partly an epic narrative of his beloved Algeria, The First Man was intended to re-create Camus’s homeland– then still a colony in a traumatic struggle for independence– for the mainland French.
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
1,600 LIn 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit.
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The Fall
1,500 LA philosophical novel described by fellow existentialist Sartre as ‘perhaps the most beautiful and the least understood’ of his novels, Albert Camus’ The Fall is translated by Robin Buss in Penguin Modern Classics.
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Spring Flowers, Spring Frost
1,650 LFrom behind the closed door, the man shouts, Be on your way – you have no business hereOpen up, I am the messenger of Death.
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Concert
1,750 LIt’s the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania.
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Midsummer Mysteries
2,500 LAn all-new collection of summer-themed mysteries from the master of the genre, just in time for the holiday season.
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Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
1,500 LA wheelchair-bound Poirot returns to Styles, the venue of his first investigation, where he knows another murder is going to take place…
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Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
1,500 LAgatha Christie’s classic mystery reissued with a new cover to tie in with Hugh Laurie’s highly anticipated 2022 TV adaptation.
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The Murder at the Vicarage
1,500 LIt was a careless remark for a man of the cloth. And one which was to come back and haunt the…
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Postern of Fate
1,500 LA poisoning many years ago may not have been accidental after all
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Rose & Yew Tree
1,600 LEveryone expected Isabella Charteris, sheltered and aristocratic, to marry her cousin Rupert St. Loo when he came back from the War.
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The Pale Horse
1,500 LA priest’s death leads to sinister goings-on in an old country pub…
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