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Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call...

In That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John...

In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why...

Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make...

The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie...

At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable...

In Kingsley Amis's Difficulties With Girls, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled...

When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory...

A chance encounter while holidaying in Central America leads an American couple, the Slades, to befriend the charming, handsome...

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...

As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale...

David Schearl arrives in New York in his mother's arms to begin his new life as an immigrant in the 'Golden Land'. David is hated...

Nedra and Viri are a married couple whose favoured life is centred around dinners, ingenious games with their children, enviable...

A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade &...

Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and...

A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa's great writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A...

With prose that is every bit as raw, intense and bitingly honest as the world it depicts, Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave...

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...

Joshua Ferris's dazzling novel To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is about the meaning of life, the certainty of death, and the...

The bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew and My Sweet Revenge tells a story of discovered secrets and the price of...

The bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew and My Sweet Revenge tells the story of a woman living in her sister's...

Henderson Dores is an Englishman in New York - and completely out of his depth.

He should be concentrating on his job as an...

From the desks of Nigeria's newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer. Zaq,...

For the four characters at the heart of Will Self's brilliantly acute novel of our times the five hundred-quid worry bead in...

Dawn French, number one bestelling author of A Tiny Bit Marvellous returns with Oh Dear Silvia.

Everyone knows the real...

Discover this thrilling exploration of love, life and morality from the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse

She...

From the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse comes the compulsive page-turner about a girl searching for the truth,...

North London in the twenty-first century: a place where a son will swiftly adopt an old lady and take her home from hospital to...

Lentils, free love, radical politics and family truths . . . Various Pets Alive and Dead is the wonderfully funny fourth novel...