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...

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...

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 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...

Read the world's first political thriller.

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

A complex, intense American novel of family from the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

With an introduction by Richard...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

The short story that inspired the play at the heart of BIRDMAN starring Michael Keaton, Ed Norton and Emma Stone

This...

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