During the Second World War, Peter Marshall's crew become one of the most successful bombing teams in their Oxfordshire airbase....

Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still...

Read this classic uplifting, moving and heartwarming story about life in the face of the cold war.

Theodore Honey is a shy,...

In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take...

Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting...

It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a...

A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with...

John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search...

Discover a classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.

Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However,...

Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that...

Les Miserables is a novel peopled by colourful characters from the nineteenth-century Parisian underworld; the street children,...

Read this beautiful, romantic feminist classic from the author of Jane Eyre.

When Lucy Snowe leaves England to look for a new...

When Andre-Louis witnesses the murder of his best friend by an arrogant and privileged aristocrat he swears to avenge his death....

In this magnificent and often surprising collection of essays Barthes explores the myths of mass culture. Taking subjects as...

Platonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a...

This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked...

With the ink still wet on his diploma, the twenty-five-year-old Dr Mikhail Bulgakov was flung into the depths of rural Russia...

The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication...

Chester Royde, an American millionaire, travels to Scotland with his new bride Carrie and sister Myrtle, to find out more about...

John Cheever's journals reveal the inner life of this remarkable writer and the contradictions that drove him. He loved his wife...

When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the...

Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex....

Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz. But...

A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of...

The plot lines of The Campus Trilogy, radiating from its hub at the redbrick University of Rummidge, trace the comic adventures...

One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael was a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and it has an...

In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. He...

This gossipy account of Louis XIV is a clear and fascinating historical biography from Nancy Mitford.

During his reign Louis...

When Jeanne-Antoinette was nine, she was told by a fortune teller that she would one day become the mistress of the handsome...

In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's...