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...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these...

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...

Bellow evokes all the rich colour and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this comic novel about a middle-aged...

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...

In The House of Bernarda Alba, a tyrannical matriarch rules over her house and five daughters, cruelly crushing their hopes and...

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...

Jean Rhys's first novel, a heartbreaking and disturbingly intimate portrayal of an isolated woman in Paris

Set in a...

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then...

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...

From the desks of Nigeria's newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer. Zaq,...

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...