A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer...

A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling...

Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science...

The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms

One of the great English popular art...

The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is a genre-defining...

How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his...

A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains...

Diogenes, Julian

A unique new volume illuminating the philosophy of the ancient Greek and Roman Cynics

From their founding in the fifth century...

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...

As far as Benjamin Braddock's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, he will go to Yale...

Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of...

Sybille Bedford's first novel, A Legacy is a savage indictment of the brutality and anti-Semitism spawned in German officer-cadet...

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest...

School is 'wet and weedy', according to Nigel Molesworth, the 'goriller of 3B', 'curse of St Custard's' and superb chronicler of...

The Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Dos Passos' U.S.A. is a groundbreaking work of experimental fiction which, with its...

Unfinished at the time of his death, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon is a story of doomed love set against the extravagance...

Originally published at the zenith of Nazi Germany's power, The Moon Is Down explores the effects of invasion on both the...

Intimidated by her father, the rector of Knype Hill, Dorothy performs her submissive roles of dutiful daughter and bullied...

My part of Ireland had a poet at one time, a poor ragged fellow whom no respectable person whom no respectable person would be...

The Internet. Home to the most important and intimate aspects of our lives. Our careers, our relationships, our selves, all of...

The revelatory autobiography of a rugby colossus: Paul O'Connell. Winner of the Cross Sports Book Awards Rugby Book of the...

Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly...

In The Viral Storm award-winning biologist Nathan Wolfe - known as 'the Indiana Jones of virus hunters' for his work in jungles...

For the four characters at the heart of Will Self's brilliantly acute novel of our times the five hundred-quid worry bead in...

Everyone hates the perfect family.

So you'll love the Battles.

Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two helpless,...

Warrior of Rome: The Amber Road is the sixth book in Harry Sidebottom's Warrior of Rome series.

AD 264 - The Roman Empire is...

Warrior of Rome: The Wolves of the North by Harry Sidebottom marks the start of a new trilogy within the Warrior of Rome...

The Caspian Gates is the fourth in Harry Sidebottom's captivating Warrior of Rome Series.

AD262 - the Imperium is in turmoil...

Her existence would be the ruin of her mother.

Baby Hope was the unfortunate proof of Lady Harvey's adultery.

Smuggled out...