Жанр "Художественная литература на английском языке"

Herbert Molin, a retired police officer, is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden. He has two...

An old man is found murdered in his Reykjavik flat.

A cryptic note and a photograph of a young girl's grave are left...

Subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth...

Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to...

It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are...

Anthony Patch and Gloria Gibson are the golden children of the Jazz Age. They marry and embark on a life of glittering parties,...

A novel which chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England.

Set...

Enderby is a poet, social critic and Catholic. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or...

'One of the most productive, imaginative and risk-taking of writers... It is a clever, sexually explicit, fast-moving, full...

A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them.

A stranger...

Written in the same period as Mrs Dalloway these seven short stories show the author's fascination with parties and with all the...

'As good as anything Tolstoy ever wrote... Self-assured, vital, unforgettable' Guardian

The title story of this collection is...

'Our very best writer today' Milan Kundera

Sparkling with comic genius and narrative exuberance, I Served the King of England...

'The funniest book in the world' Evelyn Waugh

Mr Charles Pooter is a respectable man. He has just moved into a very desirable...

'One of Dickens's most neglected, but most rewarding, novels' Peter Ackroyd

Dickens's first historical novel is a thrilling...

'The novel has everything: absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics' The Times

When...

The House of Mirth follows the tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage...

Set in 1900s, this is a lushly descriptive and highly autobiographical portrayal of a young man growing up in class-divided...

This tender story of parents, children and step-children, mistakes and secrets was Elizabeth Gaskell's last novel and is...

John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his inheritance: a great fortune and a beautiful young woman to whom...

A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.

When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora...

'P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so...

This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling,...

Once upon a time the Wapshots of St. Botolphs were distinguished for their unshakeable good opinion of themselves. But the family...

A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the...

'Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is our son'.

Younes' life is changed forever when his...

Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It - this collection presents...

From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over.

In Talking...

The powerful debut from 2020 Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Shadow King

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974 - the eve of a...

'I had this vision very clearly of a book in which I would record my total experience, and I knew how it should sound: with all...