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...

George Orwell wrote extensively about English life and politics. The selection of essays and journalism in Orwell and England...

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...

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

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

A special edition from Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any...

A gripping and suspenseful Albert Campion mystery by one of the queens of crime, Margery Allingham. This Macmillan Collector's...

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The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement that saw an explosion of Black art, music and writing, yet few female creatives...

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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...

First published in 1914, Dubliners depicts middle-class Catholic life in Dublin at the start of the twentieth century. Themes...

This collection of Poe's work contains some of the most exciting and haunting stories ever written. They range from the poetic to...

The art of telling a ghost story is a refined one, and Montague Rhodes James was a master of the genre.

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

English gentleman Rudolf Rassendyll arrives in the country of Ruritania on the eve of King Rudolf the Fifth's coronation. That...

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

A breathtaking classic of psychological suspense by the inventor of the detective novel, Wilkie Collins, with an afterword by...

Malice Aforethought is one of the earliest and finest examples of the inverted detective story - we know who committed the crime,...

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Dickens exposes the corrupting power of money in his last complete novel, Our Mutual Friend, with its...

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

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In a world where we're more connected than ever, why is it that we're also more lonely? Dip into this anthology of classic...

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

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...