Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse,...

The Road to Wigan Pier is a book in two parts: the first half is Orwell's description of working-class life in industrial...

Homage to Catalonia remains one of the most famous accounts of the Spanish Civil War. With characteristic scrutiny, Orwell...

Ibn Battutah - ethnographer, biographer, anecdotal historian and occasional botanist - was just twenty-one when he set out in...

Roger Chillingworth arrives in New England after two years' separation from his wife, Hester Prynne, to find her on trial for...

In a vividly drawn India of the late 19th century, orphan Kimball O'Hara is on the cusp of manhood. Living as a beggar, it isn't...

Drawing on her own experience, Anne Bronte exposes the isolated world of a nineteenth-century governess in her debut novel, Agnes...

Thought-provoking, comforting and wise, the simple truths of The Prophet remain compelling and rewarding to this day.
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The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, tells the story of Anthony Patch, a 1920s socialite and presumptive...

Chomei... , Descartes...

In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic...

In La Vita Nuova, Italy's greatest poet recounts the famous story of his passionate love for Beatrice. The drama of their...

A stunning anthology of poetry to create calm and peacefulness. The poems are arranged around themes of meditation, friendship,...

The inspiration for the hit Netflix show, Lupin, Arsene Lupin is charming, clever and bold. A master of disguise, he steals from...

In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton gives us a witty and piercingly insightful dark satire about the privileged society of early...

Poems for Travellers transports the reader to lands far and near in the company of some of our greatest poets such as Walt...

Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Age of Innocence, is both a poignant story of frustrated love and an...

To the Lighthouse, considered by many to be Virginia Woolf's finest novel, is a remarkably original work, showing the thoughts...

Broadly comedic and brilliantly postmodern in its lampooning of a genre, the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey tells the story...

The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast, decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial...

Why has the mild mannered Dr Jekyll suddenly begun to associate with the ugly and violent Mr Hyde? And why are they never seen...

Montalbano's First Case and Other Stories is a brilliant collection of short stories, personally chosen by Andrea...

'Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.'

Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning,...

Bronte... , Herriot...

A gorgeous anthology to dip into and savour the rich literary heritage of Yorkshire, Britain’s largest county. Yorkshire is...

Collins... , Southey...

Cornwall is steeped in poetry, legend and storytelling. Join Luke Thompson on a literary tour around its dramatic coastline, its...

The Book of Tea describes all aspects of the Japanese tea ceremony and explains how its rituals blend seamlessly with traditional...

This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will...

Comedy and tragedy intertwine when two very different couples fall in and out of love in Shakespeare's Much Ado About...

Aged ten, Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthier relations, the Bertrams, at Mansfield Park. However, life there is not...

No Man's Land by David Baldacci is an exciting thriller featuring special investigator John Puller, who is pursuing a case that...

It can often seem as though existence is split in two: body and mind, flesh and spirit, moving and thinking. In the office or at...