A high-pitched laugh echoes in an empty church. Servants discover their master dead in his bed, the only sign of disturbance an...

One hundred and fifty years ago, at the request of her publisher, Louisa May Alcott sat down reluctantly to write 'a girls'...

'Extraordinarily mature - technically as well as emotionally' Sunday Times

Arthur Machin's life changes when he is picked for...

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Discover the classic, Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel from one of India's finest ever writers.

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The final novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his...

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Michael Braungart and William McDonough propose a plan for our planet in this stunning new edition of their radical ecological...

H. is a struggling artist with a commission to paint a portrait of a well-known industrialist. Whilst the industrialist sits for...

Have you ever tried to learn another language? When Zhuang first arrives in London from China she feels like she is among an...

Miserly and mysterious, the richest man in the Five Towns lives simply, ruling his household with an iron fist and a cruel...

No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of...

What on earth could have induced Mr Anstruther to fall in love with Fraulein Schmidt? He is an eligible English bachelor from a...

Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is...

‘A sophisticated and brilliant dissection of nihilistic power’ Times Literary Supplement

From his prison cell, Antonio...

'A fine and powerful piece of work… Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic' Irish Times

"No!" is the first word of this...

‘Liquidation, suspenseful and bleakly comic, reads like a treatise on the mystery of the end of life and the mystery of suicide…...

Read this stunning Vintage Classics edition of the original story of alien invasion from the father of science fiction, H.G....

A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable... this is his story.

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A cautionary horror story about the dangers of greed, isolation and a science without ethics, from the father of science...

If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, rediscover this poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning...

If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, read Ernest Hemingway's adventure novel set on the verge of the tropics.

Harry Morgan is a...

Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and...

This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family – poor, landless peasants not unlike the...

For two years Solomon the elephant has lived in Lisbon. Now King Dom Joao III wishes to make him a wedding gift for a Hapsburg...

Despite the heavy rain, the officer at Polling Station 14 finds it odd that by midday on National Election day, only a handful of...

Discover Kingsley Amis's classic James Bond tie-in. First published in 1968, four years after Ian Fleming's death, this was the...

An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.

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Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

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Espionage, adventure and a hard-boiled heroine not to be trifled with - this classic noir will have you gripped from start to...

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time.

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