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

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There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some...

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while...

This postbellum Greek tragedy is the perfect introduction to Faulkner’s elaborate descriptive syntax.

Quentin Compson and...

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

Atticus Finch gives...

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...

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing...

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

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

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

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

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

'Timequake is...

Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it.
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Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of...

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 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...

After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path....

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Do you believe in ghosts?

Ghosts, spirits, spectres or spooks, we have always felt the presence of someone - or something -...

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...

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

'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with...

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...

'The novel has everything: absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics' The Times

When...

Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.

A gang war is raging through the dark...

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