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

Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose...

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

They say...

Sherlock star Mark Gatiss selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F....

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

In...

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

Manhattan has become the Island of Death.

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

What on earth could have induced Mr Anstruther to fall in love with Fraulein Schmidt? He is an eligible English bachelor from a...

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

Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses!

From the grandpere of science fiction - a perilous and...

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

'A major work of art' Time

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

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

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

Discover George Eliot's first novel, a tale of rural tragedy and redemption.

It may seem like an old tale: the beautiful...

This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling,...

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

Professor Aronnax embarks on...

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

'The most perfect of all the Dickens novels' Virginia Woolf

When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood...

Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman.

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

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

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

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

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

'Black satire of the highest polish' Guardian

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

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

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

When Carruthers...

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

Set...

'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies

Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set...

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

'A delight to read' Evening Standard

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

An illuminating portrait of a world in ferment after the First world War, and a man seeking an authentic life.

Early this...

The lost novel from the author of The Second Sex

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