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‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete...

‘To myself alone could I look’

Jane Eyre and Lucy Snowe are heroines who depend upon no one but themselves. In the face of...

'Masterful and beautifully written. Riveting and compellingly authentic. Grips you like a vice from the first page and never lets...

A collection of masterful short stories in Julio Cortazar's sophistocated, powerful and gripping style.

'Julio Cortazar is...

The first authorised selected collection of the twentieth-century's most influential short story writer.

Selected and...

‘No other voice has borne truer witness to the dark of our times’ George Steiner

After an embarrassing sexual misadventure...

A beautiful new edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein

Includes A Cultural History of Frankenstein's...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Philip Roth turns his gaze on 30s and 40s America in this magnificent successor to American...

This is the story of a haunted Irish childhood.

The setting is Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s, fraught with...

When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice...

Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some...

Mishima's greatest novel, and one of the greatest of the past century' The Times

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along...

Colin Thurbon’s beautiful prose unfolds along the Silk Road, unearthing a richly layered past on his most ambitious...

Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric,...

Woolf's textured prose invites us into each of the characters' minds as we follow them on a winding, decade-long journey to the...

A charming and clever account of one woman’s exploration of love, language and identity.

Twenty-three-year-old Zhuang (or Z as...

An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, discover this laugh-out-loud cult...

The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century...

'In this holy community she would play the witch.'

Imber Court is a quiet haven for lost souls, a utopia for those who can...

Read Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination.

Mann's...

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions...

The Vintage Classics Europeans series - with covers provided by textile design firm Wallace Sewell, these are must-have editions...

Revisit and discover the sensational first cookbook from Nigella Lawson.

When Nigella Lawson's first book, How to Eat, was...

A spectacular display of this key European writer's early work

This dazzling collection of stories follows the individual...

A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an...

Joseph Heller's other masterpiece - a darkly comic, sometimes tragic satire that does for the American Dream what Catch-22 did...

One hundred and fifty years ago, at the request of her publisher, Louisa May Alcott sat down reluctantly to write 'a girls'...

'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman...