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...

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...

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...

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

Set...

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

When...

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...

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

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins.

When she is captured she joins a...

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

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

Professor Aronnax embarks on...

Arthur Conan Doyle leaves Baker Street far behind in this ripping yarn about a undiscovered land where dinosaurs and ape-men...

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

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

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic...

A heartwarming and poignant tale of a lonely man brought back to life and faith.

Silas Marner lives a friendless and isolated...

'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a story-teller he is...

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year'


Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends...

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...