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George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a...

My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be...

'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to...

A brilliant, yet brutal, portrait of a woman struggling to retrieve both life and love, from the author of Wide Sargasso...

Jean Rhys's first novel, a heartbreaking and disturbingly intimate portrayal of an isolated woman in Paris

Set in a...

Primo Levi was among the greatest witnesses to twentieth-century atrocity. In this gripping novel, based on a true story, he...

The art of writing is mysterious; the opinions we hold are ephemeral. In these eleven short stories the quality of his...

Borges' first collection of stories (1935). In his writing, Borges always combined high seriousness with a wicked sense of fun....

One of the most remarkable artists of our age.' Mario Vargas Llosa The Book of Sand was the last of Borges' major collections to...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, an intrepid and eccentric adventurer, transferred his passion for flying to the written word by writing...

Few writers have expressed loneliness, the need for human understanding and the search for love with such power and poetic...

He did not ask things to have a meaning or to tell a story. To be was the only story

A semi-autobiographical novel from the...

F. Scott Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender is the Night is edited by Arnold Goldman with an introduction and notes by...

In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm. Instantly drawn to the land, she spent her happiest...

Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as...

With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend...

Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this edition of The Big Sleep and Other Novels...

This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and...

'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' Kerouac on The Town and the City Kerouac's debut novel is a great...

While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's...

A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's Howards End explores the conflict inherent within English society,...

A powerful post-apocalyptic allegory of persecution and intolerance, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Wyndham's...

Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica...

A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter...

Julia Forrester has many happy memories of a childhood spent at Wharton Park, playing amongst the exotic flowers her grandad...

A riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed...

'No man is free of his own history'

Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they...

They caught Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.
They tried to catch Number Four in Ohio...

Discover the magic of second chances and starting again in this tantalising story from the bestselling author of A Cornish...

The thirteenth-century is just begun and King John has fallen out with the Pope, leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their...