An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.

Early this...

In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his...

'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with...

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War,...

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins.

When she is captured she joins a...

Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear the Wind Sing...

This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner’s elaborate descriptive syntax.

Quentin Compson and...

Discover George Eliot's first novel, a tale of rural tragedy and redemption.

It may seem like an old tale: the beautiful...

An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition

For years Kazu has run...

Discover the lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Bronte.

When Agnes's father loses the...

Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon she...

'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies

Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set...

Miserly and mysterious, the richest man in the Five Towns lives simply, ruling his household with an iron fist and a cruel...

In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club...

When inspiration leads Theodore Gumbril to design a type of pneumatic trouser cushion to ease the discomfort of sedentary life,...

'For all its excellence as a social panorama and a sketch of a marriage, it is as a picture of a man destroyed by drink and pride...

The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination.
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The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to...

By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller

After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar,...

An intense and surreal romance set against the politics of eighteenth-century Lisbon from Nobel Prize-winning author Jose...

Eight short works of fiction by one of Britain's greatest and most original writers.

Extraordinary and diverse people inhabit...

'The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself'

'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit...

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of...

A sumptuous gift edition to mark the 90th anniversary of first publication. With an Introduction by Yuval Noah Harari.

'A...

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing...

Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of...

Huxley... , Fordham...

The graphic novel adaptation of the classic dystopian masterpiece. From Fred Fordham, graphic novelist behind the sensational TO...

Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.

A gang war is raging through the dark...

Solzhenitsyn's celebrated novel describes the lives of people in the Soviet Union under Stalin who were condemned on health...