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The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The...
Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the...
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...
Being a writer, says James Baldwin in this searing collection of essays, requires 'every ounce of stamina he can summon to...
'As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.'
Simenon explores the complexity of...
'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'
At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery...
In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the...
The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist ... he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest, a man...
Inspired by Homer's Iliad and Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Shakespeare's play explores heroism, love and betrayal against the...
Kenneth Graham's The Wind in the Willows is one of the most celebrated works of literature for children, and this Penguin...
Stephanie Plum's fast becoming the most unpopular woman in New Jersey. Even her own mother can't love her for taking on the job...
An attractive student. An older professor.
Think you know the story? Think again.
She has everything at stake; he has...
Reissued for the Originals series of powerful teen fiction.
Nobody wants Tulip in their gang.
She skives off school,...
Shortlisted for the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, Elif Shafak's The Flea Palace is a moving and highly original novel...
'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty...
Straight-A student Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. But six months on, she's never been found.
Missing persons...
One of Freud's central achievements was to demonstrate how unacceptable thoughts and feelings are repressed into the unconscious,...
Widely regarded as the first modern autobiography, The Confessions is an astonishing work of acute psychological insight....
One life. One choice. One sacrifice.
To save those closest to her, Simi sacrificed everything - her freedom, her life as mami...
Six friends. One killer. Who do you trust?
Seven teenagers went down to the woods. Only six came back…
30 years later, a body...
Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Shakespeare's immortal drama tells the story of star-crossed lovers, rival...
A silent comedy star whose legendary slapstick routines are recognisable to this day, Charles 'Charlie' Chaplin's My...
With its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's...
One hot summer, first love and so many buried secrets . . .
Senara has never been in love before. She's not done anything...
Civil wars are the biggest danger to world peace today - this book shows us why they happen, and how to avoid them.
We are now...
'High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables where rose wine was being...
'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither...
What was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? . . . Little John had cold eyes! . . . Four or five times in his...
Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays...
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