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A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town, Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more...

A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild...

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

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...

Headstrong and naive, the young Italian aristocrat Fabrizio del Dongo is determined to defy the wrath of his right-wing father...

Written in the thirteenth century, Njal's Saga is a story that explores perennial human problems-from failed marriages to divided...

Returning home to tend her widowed father Dr Marjoribanks, Lucilla soon launches herself into Carlingford society, aiming to...

When Elfrise Swanston meets Stephen Smith she is attracted to his handsome face, gentle bearing and the sense of mystery which...

Hardy described Desperate Remedies as a tale of 'mystery, entanglement, surprise and moral obliquity'.

Cytherea has taken a...

When the young nobleman Harold Transome returns to England from the colonies with a self-made fortune, he scandalizes the town of...

Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the...

Poet, education reformer, social theorist and passionate critic of Victorian England, Matthew Arnold condemned an industrial...

School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of...

The Satyricon is one of the most outrageous and strikingly modern works to have survived from the ancient world. Most likely...

The daughter of a wealthy railway magnate, Paula Power inherits De Stancy Castle, an ancient castle in need of modernization. She...

The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of...

Discover this powerful novel about the ordinary lives of the Baines sisters. The perfect next step for fans of Little...

As well as her eight novels, Angela Carter published four wonderful collections of short stories during her lifetime, and...

George Gissing's best-known novel shows us the literary underbelly of Victorian England, and the writers striving to forge their...

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

The great Icelandic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Halldor Laxness

'There are good books and there are great books...

Anton Vowl is missing. Ransacking his Paris flat, a group of his faithful companions trawl through his diary for any hint as to...

The first book in the captivating Spanish Trilogy, focusing on the remarkable lives of Spain's most famous monarchs.

In the...

The fifth book in Jean Plaidy's Plantagenet saga tells the fascinating story of the hatred between two queens

The first half...

In the days when the word 'Italian' was synonymous with 'poisoner', there was no woman the French despised more than their own...

Discover Murdoch’s wonderful writing in this compelling story of a young woman and an unusual religious lay community.

A lay...

'Of the novelists who have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable' Raymond Mortimer

This is...

Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the...

A bold, visionary story of four intertwining lives from the Nobel prizewinning novelist

With an introduction by David...