An award-winning epic on the birth of Australia

In 1787, the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King George III, the British...

It is the summer of 1936, the early months of the agonising civil war that engulfs Spain and shakes the rest of the world. In a...

Realising that his New Year is probably going to be a disaster, as usual, our narrator, on impulse, walks into a travel agency to...

By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller

After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar,...

The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway -...

Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army,...

Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers...

'The window panes reflected apples, reflected roses; all the leaves were green in the glass'

Nowhere are Virginia Woolf's...

Heroic and moving accounts of the R.A.F. in war time by the author of Fair Stood the Wind for France and The Darling Buds of...

Tibor Fischer's hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent...

'McCullin is required reading if you want to know what real journalism is all about.' - Times Literary Supplement

'He has...

Man Booker winner Anne Enright's first collection of short stories, reissued in a sumptuous new series style

Discover Man...

A powerful, heart-breaking story about tempting fate and living with the consequences

Arthur and Jake are brothers yet worlds...

'A beautiful debut novel... A real achievement... This is a wise and incisive first novel from a real talent' -...

'Of the novelists who have made their bow since the war she seems to me to be the most remarkable' Raymond Mortimer

This is...

'Iris Murdoch has written a book which concerns all of us as human beings. There are pages here that one wants to embrace her...

A highlight amongst Murdoch's novels, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of...

'A very fine collection of connected short stories - funny, disturbing, ironic and bloody' - Annie Proulx, Daily...

A witty, elegant novel about looking, seeing, thinking, knowing and understanding

Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose...

Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of twelve, retires to the...

'Brilliant-a feast' Guardian

'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who...

'The best thing he has ever written' Observer


Discover the modern classic that has sold over two million copies.

‘A...

Iris Murdoch conjures a murky London setting for a story of a brilliant and flawed man hoping for redemption

Saved from a...

In this haunting novel that 'troubles our sleep' (Richard Holloway) seven characters circle the enigmatic and callous figure of...

The enchanting story of a very remarkable dog from the author of the bestselling Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

‘In early 1998 I...

In this enthralling book van der Post establishes his role as a distinguished explorer and writer describing the rediscovery of...

'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas Mann

Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a...

From the author of The Past, Tessa Hadley's first novel now rejacketed for a whole new audience

An improbable coincidence...

'Beautifully accomplished and memorable' The Times

Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the...

'A remarkable piece of work. A magnificent novel' Salman Rushdie, Observer

Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven...