Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea....

A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.

When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora...

Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in...

A proofreader tinkering with a historical text opens up a world of ambiguity and invention

What happens when the facts of...

Sherlock Holmes stars in Doyle’s most famous detective story.

The Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying,...

The House of Mirth follows the tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage...

The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex

When Andree joins her school, Sylvie is immediately fascinated. Andree is...

A cautionary horror story about the dangers of greed, isolation and a science without ethics, from the father of science...

A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable... this is his story.

They say...

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic...

Arthur Conan Doyle leaves Baker Street far behind in this ripping yarn about a undiscovered land where dinosaurs and ape-men...

On a remote Greek Island, Nicholas Urfe finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster. As reality and illusion...

The Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. In his youth he betrayed his wife and baby daughter in a shocking...

Maggie and Tom Tulliver are both wilful, passionate children, and their relationship has always been tempestuous. As they grow up...

'Superb... These thirty-two stories inhabit the Technicolor vernaculars of taxi drivers, barbers, paper pushers and society...

Discover Charles Darwin's most important ideas...

When the eminent naturalist Charles Darwin returned from South America on...

Discover the classic Gothic horror novel of haunted cellars, opera, murder and unrequited love that inspired Andrew Lloyd...

Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a...

Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a...

A novel which chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England.

Set...

The first modern spy novel and a must-read for espionage junkies and fans of James Bond and John Le Carre.

When Carruthers...

‘What is it,’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle…and wait for someone to light...

What begins as the record of W. G. Sebald’s own journey on foot through coastal East Anglia, from Lowestoft to Bungay, becomes...

'A major work of art' Time

A band of savage thirteen-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and...

'One of the greatest allegories in all literature' D.H. Lawrence

Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an...

The Booker Prize-winning masterpiece from one of the twentieth century's most important and entertaining writers.

Iris...

Read the world's first political thriller.

London is under threat. It has become a haven for political exiles and anarchists....

Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.

The songlines are the invisible pathways that...

A majestic tale, rich in allegory, wit and philosophy; another masterpiece from the Nobel prize-winning novelist Jose...

Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarakble new translation.

'Outstanding... A...