There is trouble afoot at Blandings Castle, with publishing magnate Lord Tilbury after Galahad Threepwood's sensational memoirs,...

A Hollywood star and an English aristocrat exchange souls while under ether at the dentist and the result is mayhem. Though his...

The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoirs and England's aristocrats are all diving for cover, not least...

When Psmith finds himself working in the City for the pompous Mr Bickersdyke, he makes it his mission to bring a little sweetness...

When Bertie Wooster visits Deverill Hall pretending to be Gussie Fink-Nottle he finds himself in trouble. To begin with, there is...

Bingo Little, husband of romantic novelist Rosie M. Banks, escapes from the watchful eye of his wife with hazardous results. Two...

The trouble which begins with Gussie Fink-Nottle wandering the streets of London dressed as Mephistopheles reaches its awful...

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

If Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge had a fiver for every dodgy scheme he has ever floated, he would be a rich man indeed. In...

When Bertie Wooster goes to stay with his Aunt Dahlia at Brinkley Court and finds himself engaged to the imperious Lady Florence...

Nothing but trouble can ensue when Bertie Wooster's Aunt Dahlia instructs him to steal a silver jug from Totleigh Towers, home of...

Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri...

A comprehensive selection of the poet’s work, including all the great lyrics and the more important prophetic books. In her...

Very Good, Jeeves! is a collection of short stories starring Bertie Wooster in eleven alarming predicaments from which he has to...

While pursuing the love of his life, American heiress Pauline Stoker, Lord 'Chuffy' Chuffnell borrows the services of Jeeves, the...

Bertie Wooster vows that nothing will induce him to return to Totleigh Towers, lair of former magistrate Sir Watkyn Bassett....

In the novels of R. K. Narayan (1906-2001), the forefather of modern Indian fiction, we witness the birth of a nation as it...

In a series of brilliantly plotted episodes, Bertie and Jeeves help Bingo Little with his love-life, as Bingo is involved...

A gripping vision of American society radically overturned by a theocratic revolution, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s most political novel tells the tragic story of General Simon Bolivar, the man who tried to unite a...

One of Hemingway’s finest novels, A Farewell to Arms was published in 1929 when the author was at the height of his powers. It...

Published in 1847, the year before Emily Bronte’s death at the age of thirty, Wuthering Heights has proved to be one of the...

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and...

Saki's dazzling tales manage the remarkable feat of being anarchic and urbane at the same time. Studded with Wildean epigrams and...

'Hansel and Gretel', 'Rumpelstiltskin', 'Rapunzel' and 'Snow White' are among the jewels we owe to the brothers Grimm, who began...

Emma Woodhouse ‘had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her’, but during the course of...

Written over a period of more than half a century, Tolstoy’s enchanting short stories and novellas reflect every aspect of his...

Anton Chekhov widely hailed as the supreme master of the short story also wrote five works long enough to be called short...

Dostoevsky's most revolutionary novel, Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between nineteenth- and twentieth-century...

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