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Author
Series
Clifton chronicles volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Harry Clifton, having been raised by his uncle who was a shipyard worker, finds the expectations for his life changing after winning a scholarship to a prestigious boys' school, finding out the truth about his father's death, and questioning his lineage.
2) Pride and prejudice and zombies: the classic regency romance--now with ultraviolent zombie mayhem
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
c2009
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IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
An adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice," in which Meryton is overrun with zombies and Elizabeth Bennet does what must be done to rid the world of the flesh-eating fiends, but she is distracted by the arrival of Mr. Darcy, a rich man who harbors an air of arrogance.
Author
Series
Clifton chronicles volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of an IRA bombing, Harry uses his new literary station to raise awareness for his POW friend while Giles works to secure a political career and Sebastian's past threatens his engagement.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Catherine Havisham was born into privilege. Handsome, imperious, she is the daughter of a wealthy brewer, and lives in luxury in Satis House. But she is never far from the smell of hops and the arresting letters on the brewhouse wall -- Havisham. A reminder of all she owes to the family name and the family business.
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young woman finds herself the victim of fate and of forces beyond her control in nineteenth-century England.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In 1940, David Sparsholt arrives at Oxford to study engineering, though his sights are set on joining the Royal Air Force. Handsome, athletic, charismatic, he is unaware of his effect on others--especially on Evert Dax, the lonely son of a celebrated novelist who is destined to become a writer himself. With the world at war, and the Blitz raging in London, Oxford nevertheless exists at a strange remove: a place of fleeting beauty--and secret liaisons....
Author
Series
Clifton chronicles) volume 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cometh the Hour opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has devastating consequences for Harry and Emma Clifton, Giles Barrington and Lady Virginia.Giles must decide if he should withdraw from politics and try to rescue Karin, the woman he loves, from behind the Iron Curtain. But is Karin truly in love with him, or is she a spy?Lady Virginia is facing bankruptcy, and can see no way out of her financial problems, until she is introduced to...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
What if Elizabeth and Darcy had never managed to overcome their pride and prejudice? Find out in this imaginative retelling of the greatest love story of all time. Convinced he is past his foolish infatuation with Elizabeth Bennet , Fitzwilliam Darcy returns from a year's travels with a plan: to protect the Pemberley estate and to ensure his sister's happiness. But with Charles Bingley and his mischievous twin sisters in residence, mysterious letters...
Author
Series
Clifton chronicles volume 7
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"This Was a Man opens with a shot being fired, but who pulled the trigger, and who lives and who dies? In Whitehall, Giles Barrington discovers the truth about his wife Karin from the Cabinet Secretary. Is she a spy or a pawn in a larger game? Harry Clifton sets out to write his magnum opus, while his wife Emma completes her ten years as Chairman of the Bristol Royal Infirmary, and receives an unexpected call from Margaret Thatcher offering her a...
Author
Language
English
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Set against the backdrop of early 19th-century England, the novel opens with the Bennet family, a respectable yet financially modest clan residing in the rural town of Longbourn. The Bennets consist of the witty and sharp-minded Mr. Bennet, his good-natured but sometimes frivolous wife Mrs. Bennet, and their five daughters-Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Kitty, and Lydia. The crux of the story unfolds with the arrival of the eligible and wealthy bachelor Mr....
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