A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade &...

Described as 'a metaphysical shocker' at the time of its release, Muriel Sparks' The Driver's Seat is a taut psychological...

This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses...

Winner of the Booker Prize, Penelope Lively's Moon Tiger is the tale of a historian confronting her own, personal history,...

Handsome, worldly and intelligent, Solal holds a position of enviable power in 1930s Geneva. But as Under-Secretary-General of...

The stories of Exile and the Kingdom explore the dilemma of being an outsider - even in one's own country - and of allegiance....

Set in turn-of-the-century New York, E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime seamlessly blends fictional characters and realistic depictions of...

When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World war, there are two things in his...

Sybille Bedford's first novel, A Legacy is a savage indictment of the brutality and anti-Semitism spawned in German officer-cadet...

The novel tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who...

A classic of fantastic literature, Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet is the occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, published...

Published in 1957, two years after its author's death at the age of forty-five, A Death in the Family remains a near-perfect work...

This colourful, perceptive portrayal of English country life reverberates with the voices of the village inhabitants, from the...

The story of the title deals with a little boy named Larry and his feelings towards his father. When his father returns home from...

The first book in his award-winning 'Rabbit' series, John Updike's Rabbit, Run contains an afterword by the author in Penguin...

Exploring the decadence of Jazz Age New York through a fictionalised version of his own marriage to Zelda Fitzgerald, F. Scott...

'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'

Hidden away in the Record Department...

Robert Tressell's spirited attack on selfish capitalism is a masterpiece of wit and political passion and one of the most...

Subtly brilliant comedy of social rivalry between the wars. Emmeline Lucas (known universally to her friends as Lucia) is an...

Audacious, controversial and hilarious, The Monkey Wrench Gang is Edward Abbey's masterpiece - a big, boisterous and...

Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven...

The key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia, Maclaren-Ross pulled together his dispersed energies to write two...

A masterly story of myth, rebellion, love, friendship and betrayal from one of Africa's great writers, Ngugi wa Thiong'o's A...

Primo Levi was one of the most astonishing voices to emerge from the twentieth century: a man who survived one of the ugliest...

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of...

A worldwide bestseller and the first part of Achebe's African Trilogy, Things Fall Apart is the compelling story of one man's...

Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former...

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a...

In this final volume of The Forsyte Saga Galsworthy writes about the lives and loves of the Cherrell family, cousins of the...

In this second part of John Galworthy's trilogy of love, power, money and family feuding, a new generation has arrived to divide...