'A masterpiece - tapped out in the lean, sharp prose that film work taught Greene to perfect' - Sunday Times

With an...

Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come? H.G. Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and...

On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar...

Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. But when...

The first book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles is a moving, insightful exploration of moral dilemmas fought in public...

Trollope's magnificent and prescient satire about a dishonest financier who buys his way into a corrupt society, and throws it...

A black maid forms a close bond with the daughter of the cruel white couple for whom she works. Two rich, white artists hire a...

The battered hulk of a huge ship looms out of the stinging spray of a furious gale. Only one man, half-mad, remains aboard,...

Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out… the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the...

Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman.

Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her...

'A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni...

What could be more relaxing than a refreshing holiday on the river with your two best friends and faithful canine companion,...

'A wise, winning and utterly charming concoction of fiction, commentary and autobiography' Literary Review

'Timequake is...

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'

Atticus Finch gives...

A witty, inventive read with anyone for a passion for travel

Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian...

'Who can think of a pirate without conjuring up the image of Long John Silver?' Daily Mail

When young Jim Hawkins discovers a...

'Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect' New York Review of Books

Alan has changed because he's...

An adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and the renegade scientist Captain Nemo.

Professor Aronnax embarks on...

Beecher Stowe's vivid descriptions uncover the harrowing situations faced by slaves in Civil War America.

When a Kentucky...

The first novel from the great, incomparable Thomas Pynchon.

The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of...

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year'


Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends...

Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is...

Read the first historical novel - this tale of romance and adventure during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion will stir the blood and...

'P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so...

A selection of the best sci-fi shorts from an American genius of the genre, collected alongside his most personal essays.

A...

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his...

Rediscover Emily Bronte's powerful tale of love, violence and obsession.

'May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I...