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Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of...

'Pavese's novels are works of an extraordinary depth where one never stops finding new levels, new meanings' Italo...

Twenty-four-year-old Andreas, a disillusioned German soldier, is travelling on a troop train to the Eastern Front when he has an...

The exquisite last novel from Nobel Prize-winning author Yasunari Kawabata

Ineko has lost the ability to see things. At first...

Ever since it exploded into Vietnam's cultural life two centuries ago, The Song of Kieu has been one of that nation's most...

An old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead...

A pioneering work of dystopian fiction from one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers

Written midway between Brave New World and...

The Second World War. Poland. Our narrator has no intention of being a hero. He plans to survive this war, whatever it...

Retired teacher Edgar Hopkins lives for the thrill of winning poultry prizes. But his narrow world is shattered when he learns...

Driven mad by three years of endless phonecalls, mail, reporters and snoopers in the wake of his hugely successful novel On the...

Jack Kerouac's classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature

A witty, moving philosophical...

Make a loved one smile with this classic Christmas read - a perfect stocking filler

'Christmas Day was organized by Lady...

A dark love story set in wartime Rome from the author of In Love and Your Face for the World to See

Rome, 1944. Robert is a...

A brilliant, bruising depiction of the dark side of 1950s Hollywood, from the author of In Love.

At a Hollywood party, a...

'The Lighthouse was then a silvery, misty-looking tower with a yellow eye that opened suddenly and softly in the evening'

To...

'He began to wonder if he himself didn't suffer from the ingrained, morbid apathy he liked to draw in others'

Tod Hackett is a...

'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.'

Hidden away in the Record Department...

'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside me there'll always be the person I am...

'It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in...

'The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in...

'All children, except one, grow up.'

It was Friday night. Mr and Mrs Darling were dining out. Nana had been tied up in the...

'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'

The French Terror is raging, and few are safe...

' "Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but...

'I will not read it; I should never sleep again'

A doctor performs an experiment on a young woman that goes horribly wrong,...

'She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day'

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa...

As Stephen Rojack, a decorated war hero and former congressman who murders his wife in a fashionable New York City high-rise,...

Sleepers awake in a remote cave and the ancient mystic Simon Magus attempts a miracle, in these two magical, otherworldly tales...

Belonging and estrangement intertwine in these four lyrical short stories from the the author of Invisible Man.

She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car.

At once...

The first novel in the Great Plains trilogy, this is an ode to the American Midwest and the immigrants who transformed it

To...