'There is in this world a kind of desire like stinging pain'

A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male...

One of a major new Classics series - books that have changed the history of thought, in sumptuous, clothbound hardbacks.

The...

Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?'

Drawing on writers and thinkers...

What's it like to fly faster than a bullet?
Could you really glimpse the edge of space?
Why will we never see Concorde's like...

This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and...

The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet

One day in post-Brexit,...

'To create today means to create dangerously'

This new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as...

You can run away from your life.
But you can't run away from murder.
When her family tragedy is splashed across the newspapers,...

This is the only volume to bring together all of Allen Ginsberg's published verse in its entirety, celebrating half a century of...

The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest...

Colditz Castle: a forbidding Gothic tower on a hill in Nazi Germany. You may have heard about the prisoners and their daring and...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers

For...

Someone took Daisy Mason . . .
Someone you know.

Last night, eight-year-old Daisy Mason disappeared from a family party. No...

Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are diving for treasure . . .

Specifically, the legendary hoard of Pirate Queen Ching Shih, lost in...

Freud's epoch-making insights revolutionized our perception of who we are, forming the foundation for psychoanalysis. In...

In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and...

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his...

To me, writing was pure pleasure. It thrilled me to be able to escape the horrors of my daily life in such a simple way. When I...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of...

One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found.
One month ago, his mother saw him on the street.
One week ago, David Raker agreed to...

In the black of night, a woman lands on the fields of Occupied France. Charlotte Grey is on a mission for the British government...

What happens when the five luckiest children in the entire world walk through the doors of Willy Wonka's famous, mysterious...

Gratton... , Ireland...

An assassin, a soldier, a prince . . . and a deadly game of power, where no one knows the rules. Prepare to enter the world of...

1431 is a dangerous time for a woman to be defiant.

England has been fighting France for 100 years. At home, power-hungry men...

Carrie Soto is the greatest player the world has ever seen.

But six years after her last match, she watches a young British...

"'Carpe Jugulum,' read Agnes aloud. 'That's . . . well, Carpe Diem is Seize the Day, so this means -'
'Go for the throat . . .'"...

A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia.

They call...

In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...