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'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did,...

What Maisie Knew is Henry James's damning portrait of adultery, jealousy and possession on the decadent fringe of English...

After the restoration of King Charles II to the British throne in 1660, dramatists experienced new freedom in an age that broke...

Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it.

The Playbook is an expose of the...

One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

In the village...

Cornwall, 1940.

In the hushed hours of deepest night a young woman is found washed up on the rocks.

Was it a tragic...

If you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?

Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry. So she...

A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after...

Niels Lyhne is an aspiring poet, torn between romanticism and realism, faith and reason. Through his relationships with six...

About to turn forty, Alice feels stuck: She works at the school she attended. Her boyfriend isn't the man of her dreams. And her...

Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and...

'This was natural. It is the same everywhere. Rarely, however, had Maigret had such a strong sense of a clique. In a small town...

'It was I who removed de P- this morning.' With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence...

In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of...

In this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker,...

A post-humous, autobiographical collection of poetry from John Updike, one of the most celebrated American writers of the...

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth...

Hailed as the greatest modern lyrical poet of Germany, Rainer Maria Rilke’s genius lies in his passion for perfection, artistic...

Selected Poems brings together some two hundred poems - the largest collection of Borges' poetry ever assembled in English,...

'Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one...

Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal.

'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone,...

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat...

A minibus journeys through rural Mexico. Inside it are twelve strangers on a pilgrimage to the White Rock, which stands, ancient...

Juliet believes girls like her - girls with arthritis - don't get their own love stories. She exists at the edges of her friends'...

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play...

'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide

Michel had...

The most famous person in the world is going undercover…
Global phenomenon Winter Young is the pop star of a generation. With...

It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a...

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling...

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval...