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.

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Discover this fresh, pacy, modern translation of an enduring literary classic.

Halfway through life, you find yourself lost,...

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...

Jose Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country.

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

After killing his brother Abel, Cain must wander for ever. He witnesses Noah's ark, the destruction of the Tower of Babel, Moses...

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.

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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...

‘Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom’

Sonnets are for romantics,...

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.

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A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece.

As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her...

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.

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It is Christmas Eve, and John Rivers is thinking about the past; about his sheltered upbringing; about an extraordinary time...

Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, is on bad terms with his socialist father who disapproves of his hedonistic...