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...

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...

'I finished it in one sitting. Probably for the tenth time... it carries me along waves of wonder' Franz Kafka

Michael...

Discover Thomas Pynchon’s brilliant writing in this postmodern literature classic.

‘The greatest, wildest author of his...

Haruki Murakami's third novel, A Wild Sheep Chase is the mystery hybrid which completes the odyssey begun in Hear the Wind Sing...

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As...

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this...

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

With an introduction by Richard...

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his...

The evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside.

The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in...

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

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his...

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

This...

Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where...

Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.
It's...

Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of...

'The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself'

'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit...

'A story of the voluptuousness of doom' Thomas Mann

Death in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a...

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

By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller

After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar,...

An acute psychological portrait of a marriage where lofty traditions clash with appetite and ambition

For years Kazu has run...

An intense and surreal romance set against the politics of eighteenth-century Lisbon from Nobel Prize-winning author Jose...

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

What happens when the facts of...