'Marvellous entertainment' Sunday Times

Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul...

'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' Guardian...

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...

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

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...

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

Early this...

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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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,...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Silas Marner lives a friendless and isolated...

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

In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of...

‘The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the...

'In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want' Independent

Eight years ago Anne Elliot...

Discover the classic story behind the major new film

'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early...

Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War,...

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

With an introduction by Richard...

In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of party she...

'A delight to read' Evening Standard

In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall...

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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