Shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award 2003

'Definitive' Daily Telegraph

Orwell has become one of the most potent...

A powerful, autobiographical work set in 1920s Tokyo and Osaka

The marriage of Kaname and Misako is disintegrating: whilst...

Brimming with good cheer, Mr Pye decides to bring peace and love to Sark's 289 eccentric inhabitants. This is a charming fable...

A dazzling collection of short fiction, containing stories published in New Writing and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as...

The endlessly inventive and gripping story of one man's rebellion and passion

Patrick Doyle is a twenty-nine-year-old teacher...

The first novel in Mishima's masterful Sea of Fertility tetraology

Tokyo, 1912. The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is...

An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition

For years Kazu has run...

R. K. Narayan is one of India's most valued and adored twentieth-century novelists. He takes his place alongside Graham Greene,...

Graham Greene's incredible journey to an unchartered land.

The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West...

Re-jacketed in stunning new series style, The Innocent is a startlingly prescient novel from Booker prize-winning, Sunday...

A timeless masterpiece of nuance and atmosphere that represents the very best of Bowen's work.

When eleven-year-old Henrietta...

Genteel life at 'the 'Big House' continues while the Irish War of Independence rages beyond the gates, but for how long?

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A tense thriller of suspicion, betrayal and espionage set in wartime London

It is wartime London, and the carelessness of...

Reissued in new series style to match Faulks's most recent novel Where My Heart Used to Beat, which was a major Sunday Times...

The first novel John Cheever wrote is a wonderful introduction to his writing; clever, funny, charming and bursting with...

'Poignant, moving, hilarious...laugh-out-loud funny...the sort of book that might change your life' - Observer

From the...

'Ballard is amongst our finest writers of fiction' Anthony Burgess

A futuristic cover - comes with 3d glasses!

Welcome to...

A controversial enquiry into the fundamental principles of evolutionary theory from an award-winning writer

High in the...

Re-jacketed in stylish new series style, Amsterdam won the 1998 Man Booker Prize.

Winner of the Booker prize

Two old...

From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. A Patchwork Planet is now re-jacketed along with the rest of...

'Cracking prose - highly inventive, inimitably stylish and funny' The Times

In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are...

Now a stage musical, Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour, adapted by Lee Hall (Billy Elliott, War Horse) and directed by Vicky...

Now reissued with a stunning new jacket look, Music & Silence is a story of love and divided loyalties set in seventeenth century...

A compelling and painfully emotional thriller from the author of international bestseller Star of the Sea.

From the...

In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life....

A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and...

When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and...

'Prophetic... a novelist of stature and wisdom' - Daily Telegraph

'Evocative and penetrating. Oz handles his narrative with...

From the author of It Can't Happen Here, a satirical portrait of a town obsessed by capitalism and the 'values' of the...

'As a novel it stands very high, but it is in its qualities as a "social document" that its great value lies' Times Literary...