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'Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.'

The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are...

Dickens' masterful tale of Paris, London, and revolution.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

Lucie...

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.
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Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarakble new translation.

'Outstanding... A...

H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for...

Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a...

Enjoy Helen Simpson's sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of motherhood in this perfect Mother's Day...

Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an...

Salman Rushdie, a self-described ‘emigrant from one place and a newcomer in two’, explores the true meaning of home. Writing with...

Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads.

How to be a good...

Babies: our biggest mystery and our most natural consequence, our hardest test and our enduring love. Anne Enright describes the...

Discover the lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Bronte.

When Agnes's father loses the...

Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in...

Miserly and mysterious, the richest man in the Five Towns lives simply, ruling his household with an iron fist and a cruel...

No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of...

What on earth could have induced Mr Anstruther to fall in love with Fraulein Schmidt? He is an eligible English bachelor from a...

Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is...

Meet Elizabeth and discover there is no greater happiness to be found than when lost in a wilderness of a garden, with bird...

‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement

From his prison cell, Antonio...

'A fine and powerful piece of work… Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic' Irish Times

"No!" is the first word of this...

‘Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide…...

'While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz...

Read this stunning Vintage Classics edition of the original story of alien invasion from the father of science fiction, H.G....

A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable... this is his story.

They say...

A cautionary horror story about the dangers of greed, isolation and a science without ethics, from the father of science...

Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come? H.G. Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and...

If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, rediscover this poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning...

Sherlock star Mark Gatiss selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F....

Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and...

This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family – poor, landless peasants not unlike the...