This semi-autobiographical tale of Kerouac's own trip to France, to trace his ancestors and explore his own understanding of the...

An experimental novel which remained unpublished for years, Visions of Cody is Kerouac's fascinating examination of his own New...

It is Warsaw in the 1930s. Aaron Greidinger is an aspiring young writer and the son of a rabbi, who struggles to be true to his...

Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The...

Yasha the magician - sword swallower, fire eater, acrobat and master of escape - is famed for his extraordinary Houdini-like...

'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button' sees a baby born in 1860 begin life as an old man and then age backwards. F. Scott...

In Agua Viva Clarice Lispector aims to 'capture the present'. Her direct, confessional and unfiltered meditations on everything...

First published in 1949, The Golden Apples is an acutely observed, richly atmospheric portrayal of small town life in Morgana,...

Published in Penguin Modern Classics, Penelope Lively's Heat Wave is a moving portrayal of a fragile family damaged and defined...

Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by...

The story of the man-cub Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, guided by his mentors Baloo the bear, Bagheera the...

Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune....

When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her...

Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that...

Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick...

When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn...

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...

Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from...

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

'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!'

Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain...

West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the...

Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and...

The eighth of John le Carre's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a...

Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia,...

Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady...

Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the...

The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and...

Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an...

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

One of the great English popular art...