Though best known in the English speaking world for his short fictions and poems, Borges is revered in Latin America equally as...

With delicacy of perception and memory, humour and pathos, Carson McCullers spreads before us the three phases of a weekend...

Following the events of one single day in Dublin, the 16th June 1904, and what happens to the characters Stephen Dedalus, Leopold...

Raymond Chandler was America's preeminent writer of detective fiction, and this edition of The Big Sleep and Other Novels...

Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then...

Brideshead Revisited is Evelyn Waugh's stunning novel of duty and desire set amongst the decadent, faded glory of the English...

This wonderful translation of Dream Story will allow a fresh generation of readers to enjoy this beautiful, heartless and...

'It is the sum of myself, as far as the written word can go' Kerouac on The Town and the City Kerouac's debut novel is a great...

This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge,...

Ada or Ardor is a romance that follows Ada from her first childhood meeting with Van Veen on his uncle's country estate, in a...

A powerful post-apocalyptic allegory of persecution and intolerance, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of John Wyndham's...

Meticulously selected and artfully recreated, the selection of stories in Italian is vast and ranges geographically from Corsica...

Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back...

A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter...

Following a baseball game that nearly became a religious war, two Jewish boys become friends. Danny comes from the strict Hasidic...

Susan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.

Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of...

In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences,...

A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew...

Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational Brooklyn Crucifixion. Into it he poured all the anguish and...

Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph

'Astonishing... Like the great Russian novels, these...

Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's ninth. He and his gang of...

'The general uncertainty as to what is really happening makes it easier to cling to lunatic beliefs'
Biting and timeless...

70 years ago, the Munro family disappeared without a trace, leaving behind their newborn baby.
When sisters Rose and Connie...

How do you solve a mystery when you can't remember the clues?
Maud is forgetful. She makes a cup of tea and doesn't remember to...

The Catcher in Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden...

A timeless travelogue from the leading light of the Beat Generation, Jack Kerouac's Lonesome Traveller is a jubilant celebration...

'We are mistaken when we say that 'It isn't the same for them as it would be for us', and that people bred in the slums can...

George Orwell's vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor and destitute, Down and Out in Paris and London is a...

But, my dear friend, what lie are you living?' 'Why, of course, the lie that we're here to uplift our poor black brothers instead...

Charmer, fabulist and tailor to Panama's rich and powerful, Harry Pendel loves to tell stories. But when the British spy Andrew...