Shooting An Elephant, George Orwell'Shooting an Elephant' is Orwell's searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd 'solely to avoid looking a fool'. The other masterly essays in this collection include classics such as 'My Country Right or Left', 'How the Poor Die' and 'Such, Such were the Joys', his memoir of the horrors of public school, as well as discussions of Shakespeare, sleeping

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Patrick Melrose Volume 1 contains the first three novels in the Patrick Melrose series

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A curmudgeonly professor journeys to a small town in the far north to study faerie folklore and discovers dark fae magic

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moving story explores the age-old question: what would you change if you could travel back in time

But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time

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