‘The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'

Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years...

Discover the legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island.

Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to...

'In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want' Independent

Eight years ago Anne Elliot...

Discover the classic story behind the major new film

'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early...

Roddy Doyle's first ever collection of stories.

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann,...

A moving tale of isolation, the painful loss of innocence and a eulogy for the traditional ways of life gone forever.

In 1948,...

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and Martin Amis's celebrated first novel.

Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and...

A single mother's scandalous past returns to complicate the present in this deftly-plotted comedy by the beloved Mary...

Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest...

Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to two very different Baltimore families.

Every year, on the...

Heavy rain falls on Lafferton. As the rain water slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are revealed.

It...

A gunman is terrorising young women.

What links these seemingly random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person...

A strikingly powerful novel exploring the motivations of a suicide bomber in Israel, told through the eyes of her husband.

Now...

A tangled tale of falling in love - with three very different men.

Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her...

When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give...

The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.

Eddie Virago, proud owner of the...

Philip Roth's debut novella and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman...

The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised,...

Lost, found, stolen, strayed, sold, fought over... This engrossing, beautifully crafted novel follows the fictional adventures,...

In the summer of 1989, at Tel-Kedar, a small settlement in the Negev Desert, the long time love affair between Theo, a...

A compulsively readable account of an African country now virtually inaccessible to the outside world and one journalist's daring...

A sensational short story collection from Britain's master of the genre.

Charting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love...

Two lost masterpieces of French literature gathered together in one volume for the first time.

From the author of the...

From the author of the bestselling Suite Franзaise.

Translated by Sandra Smith, with an introduction by Patrick Marnham.

In...

'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak...

'The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years' Literary Review
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the...

There aren't many scientists famous enough in their lifetime to be canonized by the US Congress as one of America's 'living...

Everything changes for the four Mellow children the day they find a book called Pleasuring on the shelf.

It is written by...

Gabe Wallach, freshly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, and thus freed from old...