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

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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...

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,...

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...

Read Kurt Vonnegut's powerful masterpiece, which is as timely now as when it was first published.

Billy Pilgrim – hapless...

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...

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

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

George Gissing's best-known novel shows us the literary underbelly of Victorian England, and the writers striving to forge their...

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

When Carruthers...

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

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

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

Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out… the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the...

Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big events: love...

Malignant forces and supernatural visitors haunt this selection of superbly spooky tales selected and introduced by Ruth...

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

In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club...

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

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

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The House of Mirth follows the tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage...

Set in 1900s, this is a lushly descriptive and highly autobiographical portrayal of a young man growing up in class-divided...

A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.

When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora...

'P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so...

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

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

The first novel from the great, incomparable Thomas Pynchon.

The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of...

By far the shortest of Pynchon's great, dazzling novels - and one of the best.

Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance,...