'They sing in my head even now... What a wonderful storyteller/poet he was' Michael Morpurgo, Guardian

Have you ever wondered...

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.

The aging Nakata, tracker of lost...

Kalevala is the poetic name for Finland: ‘the land of heroes’. Here you’ll find the cultural essence of a young country but an...

'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a story-teller he is...

The original translation by Robert Chandler, updated and revised
The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an...

Discover the classic tale behind the hit film and one of the most beloved, comforting, charming stories of all time.

Life in...

Love is Angela Carter's fifth novel and was first published in 1971. With surgical precision it charts the destructive emotional...

'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday Telegraph

Faculty wife Emily...

'Gaskell's shocking, moving and contemporary account of the corrosive effects of injustice and poverty' Sunday Telegraph

Mary...

'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz Kafka

Michael...

Discover one of the most admired, best loved and influential novels in the history of English literature.

'If we had a keen...

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this...

'The ultimate fish story' Bob Dylan

When Ishmael sets sail on the whaling ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea...

'Black satire of the highest polish' Guardian

Whilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Campbell Jr...

A witty, elegant novel about looking, seeing, thinking, knowing and understanding

Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose...

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she...

George Gissing's best-known novel shows us the literary underbelly of Victorian England, and the writers striving to forge their...

'The novel has everything: absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics' The Times

When...

'A masterpiece' The Times

After the tragic deaths of their parents, Magdalen and Norah discover the devastating news that they...

'A really remarkable picture of the reality, as well as the prosperity, of northern industrial life, and an interesting...

'Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. K. Rowling

Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very...

The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance...

'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday Times

Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul...

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time.

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'A delight to read' Evening Standard

In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall...

‘The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the...

After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path....

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave...

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful...

Bright, photographic, evocative new covers for Greene's backlist, to celebrate one of the keystone writers of the Vintage...