Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold...

Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this edition of The Big Sleep and Other Novels...

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

Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English...

This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and...

'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' Kerouac on The Town and the City Kerouac's debut novel is a great...

While his old furniture rots in storage, Malte Laurids Brigge lives in a cheap room in Paris, with little but a library reader's...

This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge,...

A meticulously-observed drama of class warfare, E.M. Forster's Howards End explores the conflict inherent within English society,...

Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a...

A powerful post-apocalyptic allegory of persecution and intolerance, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Wyndham's...

Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica...

Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back...

A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter...

Julia Forrester has many happy memories of a childhood spent at Wharton Park, playing amongst the exotic flowers her grandad...

Deep Country is Neil Ansell's account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales.

'I lived alone in this cottage...

Something went wrong around the start of the twenty-first century. The crowd was wise. Social networks replaced individual...

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

Bee Wilson is the food writer and historian who writes as the 'Kitchen Thinker' in the Sunday Telegraph, and is the author of...

A riotously dysfunctional portrait of one all-American family and its diabolical matriarch - by one of America's most acclaimed...

'No man is free of his own history'

Hartmann and Fibich came to England on the kindertransport. As orphans of the war they...

Discover the magic of second chances and starting again in this tantalising story from the bestselling author of A Cornish...

From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire...

The thirteenth-century is just begun and King John has fallen out with the Pope, leaving babies to lie unbaptized in their...

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

Joshua Ferris's dazzling novel To Rise Again at a Decent Hour is about the meaning of life, the certainty of death, and the...

The widely acclaimed author of The New Black returns with this brilliant exploration of madness

What separates the sane from...

It's time to rethink our attitudes to work.

For too long we have convinced ourselves that the only jobs worth doing involve...

The bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew and My Sweet Revenge tells a story of discovered secrets and the price of...

The bestselling author of Getting Rid of Matthew and My Sweet Revenge tells the story of a woman living in her sister's...