When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the...

A scandalous exploration of elite undergraduate life from the author of The Bonfire of the Vanities

Dupont University: the...

Set against the backdrop of the collapsing Ottoman Empire, Birds Without Wings traces the fortunes of one small community in...

Did Neil Armstrong really set foot on the moon?

Was the United States government responsible for the 11 September...

'Though on the morning after the election disbelief prevailed, especially among the pollsters, by the next everybody seemed to...

Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate...

Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.

A gang war is raging through the dark...

A wise and witty look at the contemporary migrant experience.

Lev is on his way from Eastern Europe to Britain, seeking work....

In a silent valley in southern France stands an isolated stone farmhouse, the Mas Lunel. Its owner is Aramon Lunel, an alcoholic...

Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or...

A gripping tragicomedy of a bungled kidnapping in a provincial Argentinean town, considered to be one of Greene's finest...

A classic espionage thriller from master storyteller Graham Greene

‘One of the most important British writers of the twentieth...

The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are...

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful...

Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first truly experimental novel. It is a portrait of a young man, tracing his life from...

A Husband. A Wife. Their Secret

Joe and Joan Castleman are en route to Helsinki. Joe is thinking about the prestigious...

A dystopian classic

In February 2108, the New Zealand Rediscovery Expedition reaches California at last. It is over a century...

For over a hundred years the Pacific island of Pala has been the scene of a unique experiment in civilisation. Its inhabitants...

It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe.

Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a...

When talented young writer Nathan Zuckerman makes his pilgrimage to sit at the feet of his hero, the reclusive master of American...

Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he...

Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where...

'The Anatomy Lesson is a ferocious, heartfelt book - lavish with laughs and flamboyant inventions' John Updike

With his...

In search of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to...

This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner’s elaborate descriptive syntax.

Quentin Compson and...

The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite short story collection.

Here are men and women of wildly...

One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's...

Ludicrous, heart-warming and improbably inspirational, Spanish Steps is the story of what happens when a rather silly man tries...

Discover Murdoch’s wonderful writing in this compelling story of a young woman and an unusual religious lay community.

A lay...

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she...