'In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want' Independent

Eight years ago Anne Elliot...

Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius.

No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother....

Reunion is a little-known novel. But it is also a universal story of friendship. It is a book of great power, waiting to be...

Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young...

Discover the legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island.

Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to...

A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness's masterpiece

Late one snowy midwinter night, in a remote...

Covering the first half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short...

Covering the second half of Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro's career, these are some of the best, most touching and powerful short...

‘I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way’

Discover the...

A heartwarming and poignant tale of a lonely man brought back to life and faith.

Silas Marner lives a friendless and isolated...

Manhattan has become the Island of Death.

The former President of the United States stands barefoot in a purple toga around a...

There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some...

Shakespeare's sonnets are lyrical, haunting, beautiful and often breath-taking, representing one of the finest bodies of poetry...

Set in 1900s, this is a lushly descriptive and highly autobiographical portrayal of a young man growing up in class-divided...

In this extraordinary novel, Stingo, an inexperienced twenty-two year old Southerner, takes us back to the summer of 1947 and a...

From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move...

This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked...

'The perfect novel' Kate Atkinson, #1 bestselling author of Big Sky

Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken,...

Discover Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious...

The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the...

The plot lines of The Campus Trilogy, radiating from its hub at the redbrick University of Rummidge, trace the comic adventures...

The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary

'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the...

A brilliant story of intrigue, retribution, revenge and redemption.

Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantes...

In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of...

'Extraordinary... one of her finest novels' Guardian

"If everybody in the world didn't keep watching to see what everybody...

When sixteen-year-old Portia is orphaned she is plunged into the sophisticated and politely treacherous world of her wealthy...

As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence,...

Edwardian era love, society and politics explored in this perfect read for Downton Abbey fans.

Sebastian is young, handsome...

Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a...

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while...