Virginia Woolf’s wildly imaginative, comic novel was inspired by the life of her lover, Vita Sackville West.

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As heard on Radio 4 and seen on Netflix, Nella Larsen’s Passing is a distinctive and revealing novel about racial...

Demelza Carne, the impoversished miner's daughter rescued from a fairground rabble, is now Ross Poldark's wife. But events are...

Acclaimed author Elizabeth Jane Howard said she would certainly have been a gardener had she not become a writer first. In Green...

Peter, Phyllis and Roberta’s lives change overnight when their father is taken away by two strangers. They move from the comfort...

James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a powerful, trailblazing novel that exposes the intricate...

The most famous memoir of its kind and a key text in the anti-slavery movement, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass tells...

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Cornwall is steeped in poetry, legend and storytelling. Join Luke Thompson on a literary tour around its dramatic coastline, its...

One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes...

Bringing together all Charles Dickens' ghost stories - twenty in all - including several longer tales. Here are chilling...

In The Pickwick Papers we are introduced not just to one of the greatest writers in the English language, but to some of...

The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas is given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written...

A pioneer of the Romantic movement, William Wordsworth wrote about the natural world and human emotion with a clarity of language...

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs Seacole in Many Lands is a wonderfully entertaining autobiography by Mary Seacole - nurse,...

In La Vita Nuova, Italy's greatest poet recounts the famous story of his passionate love for Beatrice. The drama of their...

A stunning anthology of poetry to create calm and peacefulness. The poems are arranged around themes of meditation, friendship,...

Robert Louis Stevenson's classic, swashbuckling novel about a young boy who is forced to go to sea and who is then caught up in...

In The House of Mirth, Edith Wharton gives us a witty and piercingly insightful dark satire about the privileged society of early...

This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesop's fables in a volume that will...

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's progressive views on feminism and mental health are powerfully showcased in her two most famous...

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Happy Hour is a gorgeous gift book of classic poetry which fizzes with poetry about all kinds of drink, drinkers and drinking...

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes contains Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's final twelve stories about his great fictional detective....

A child's life should be full of poems, rhymes and songs, and Poems of Childhood is a celebration of that.
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Shooting stars tear across the night sky, then a gigantic artificial cylinder descends from Mars to land near London. Inquisitive...

When young Jim Hawkins finds a mysterious map in a dead sailor's sea trunk, it marks the start of a thrilling treasure hunt - and...

Charles Dickens was one of the great chroniclers of London life. From the colourful chaos of dances and gin-shops to the sparse...

Broadly comedic and brilliantly postmodern in its lampooning of a genre, the Jane Austen classic Northanger Abbey tells the story...

It is 1941 and bombs have turned London into the front line of a world war. In the shadows of the Blitz, Hitler's agents are...

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved...

The eccentric Mortmain family have been rattling around in a vast, decrepit castle for years, gradually slipping into financial...