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"No!" is the first word of this...

‘Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide…...

'While the average reader cannot pretend truly to understand the reality of those who suffered in concentration camps, Kertesz...

Read this stunning Vintage Classics edition of the original story of alien invasion from the father of science fiction, H.G....

A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable... this is his story.

They say...

A cautionary horror story about the dangers of greed, isolation and a science without ethics, from the father of science...

Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come? H.G. Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and...

If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, rediscover this poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning...

If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, read Ernest Hemingway's adventure novel set on the verge of the tropics.

Harry Morgan is a...

Sherlock star Mark Gatiss selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F....

Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and...

This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family – poor, landless peasants not unlike the...

For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for a Hapsburg...

In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the...

Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of...

Discover Kingsley Amis's classic James Bond tie-in. First published in 1968, four years after Ian Fleming's death, this was the...

An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.

Early this...

In his first collection, George Saunders' vision of our near future is as black and funny as you can get. He takes us on a trip...

Escape to the Cornish cliffs in the dizzying heat of August 1939, where five cousins are making the most of the last summer of...

Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes,...

An enjoyable 19th century read following doomed happenings and grisly, secret premonitions.

An eminent doctor is visited by a...

It's 1943 and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. When food is in short supply, it...

Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

As...

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'

Atticus Finch gives this...

Read this stunning translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the fall of...

Edwardian era love, society and politics explored in this perfect read for Downton Abbey fans.

Sebastian is young, handsome...

Espionage, adventure and a hard-boiled heroine not to be trifled with - this classic noir will have you gripped from start to...

Nik Cohn began to write this book in the late 1960s with a simple purpose: to catch the feel, the pulse of Rock. Nobody had...

Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a...

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time.

In...