Discover the lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Bronte.

When Agnes's father loses the...

Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in...

Miserly and mysterious, the richest man in the Five Towns lives simply, ruling his household with an iron fist and a cruel...

No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of...

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

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

Meet Elizabeth and discover there is no greater happiness to be found than when lost in a wilderness of a garden, with bird...

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

They say...

A cautionary horror story about the dangers of greed, isolation and a science without ethics, from the father of science...

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

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

Jose Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country.

From the...

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

Early this...

Edwardian era love, society and politics explored in this perfect read for Downton Abbey fans.

Sebastian is young, handsome...

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

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

In...

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

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

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

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

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

From the infamous Glasgow slum, the Gorbals, Tam Clay chronicles a week in his life, in the last days before the demolishers move...

As a child, Luke’s mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House, an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence,...

The complete short stories of the 20th century's greatest visionary

'Kafka is important to us because his predicament is the...

Manhattan has become the Island of Death.

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

'Black satire of the highest polish' Guardian

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

Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life.

The songlines are the invisible pathways that...

On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave...

Bruce Chatwin sets off on a journey through South America in this wistful classic travel book

With its unique, roving...

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

When a Kentucky...

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