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Zombies Ravage Hertfordshire- Pride & Prejudice & Zombies

A blend of comedy, romance, thrilling swordfights and contemporary horror
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Sea Monsters on the Devonshire Coast- Sense & Sensibility & Sea Monsters

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is Ben H. Winters’ imaginative parody of Jane Austen’s nineteenth century classic.
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Manchester Literature Festival 2010- Bewilderbliss and Corridor 8

Both magazines are sold in Cornerhouse; to contact the magazines visit www.corridor8.co.uk and www.bewilderbliss.com.
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Victorian Vampire Slayers- Dracula

The novel is brimming with taboo images of the sexually repressed Victorian period.
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The Female Eunuch

At its heart The Female Eunuch is a call for freedom from a constricting conformity that still exists.
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The Handmaid’s Tale

This is certainly not an emotionally uplifting read, yet Atwood’s tale will leave you contemplating whether aspects of Gilead already exist in our modern society?
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Mrs Dalloway

In times of bitter rejection or ultimate betrayal, nothing is more satisfying than imagining the punishment you dream to deal your cold-blooded nemesis.
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Jump!

Cooper’s Jump!, pulls to the front of the reader’s mind the likes of Francis Drake and Julian Fellowes, as she creates a world revolving around equine activity and class-climbers.
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Rowling vs. Bronte

An online survey of the Top Five female authors
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Terry Pratchett- I Shall Wear Midnight

Terry Pratchett is a man of many thousands of words, hundreds of which are wittily twisted into the nonsensical phrases that make up the fictional Discworld series, and fifty-plus other collaborations that span across a 30 year career as a novelist.
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Life of Pi

It has been eight years since Life of Pi was published to international critical acclaim, and won the 2002 Man Booker Prize.
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Eat Pray Love

a celebrated account of one woman diving head first into indulgence, enlightenment and spirituality – it’s a grown up gap year.
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Hotel Iris

Not one for the fainthearted, Yoko Ogawa explores exploitative sexual politics and power relations in her newest novel Hotel Iris.
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Mini Shopaholic

Men are from mars and women are from Harrods?
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Inheritance of Loss

Kiran Desai’s 2006 award winning novel The Inheritance of Loss
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Heartstone

Heartstone is the fifth novel in Sansom’s best-selling ‘Shardlake’ series; Dissolution, Dark Fire, Sovereign and Revelation.
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Bitter In The Mouth

The title of Monique Truong’s Bitter in the Mouth comes from the protagonist’s “auditory-gustatory” synaesthesia, a rare condition that causes Linda Hammerick to literally taste the words she hears.
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The Aurora Teagarden Mysteries

Aurora Teagarden; an unlikely character to have avid interest in historical murders.
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Wild Animus

Is this what authors now think we want to read/hear? I sincerely hope not because the only word I have been able to think of to describe it is “tosh”.
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An Idiot Abroad

Whether or not Karl is a Gervais creation, which I dearly hope he isn’t, appreciate it for what it is and laugh heartily.
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