The language of flowers is as old as language itself. In the earliest poetry familiar plants were used to represent simple...

Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time.

The Nobel...

The first of the Blandings Castle novels, introducing Lord Emsworth, his family, his secretary – the Efficient Baxter – and the...

This sparkling story of transatlantic manners follows the fortunes of playboy Jimmy Crocker in England and America. When Jimmy...

J. Wellington Gedge seems to have everything a man could desire: a rich wife, a chateau, a life of ease in the south of France....

Monty Bodkin's pursuit of Gertude Butterwick is temporarily interrupted by his encounter with silver-screen siren Miss Lotus...

It is pig stealing time in Shropshire. After winning the Fat Pig competition for two years in a row with Empress of Blandings,...

"Tolstoy's lavish and always graphic use of detail," wrote John Bayley, "together of course with its romance and exotic setting ....