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The House in Paris | A timeless masterpiece of nuance and atmosphere that represents the very best of Bowen's work. When eleven-year-old Henrietta arrives at the Fishers' residence in Paris, little do...

Why We Drive. On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control | Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the human spirit and the competence of ordinary people by the bestselling author of The ...

This Night's Foul Work | On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their hearts cut out. Meanwhile a seventy-five-year-old ...

Time Must Have a Stop | Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, is on bad terms with his socialist father who disapproves of his hedonistic lifestyle. He escapes to Florence in order to learn...

Scenes from Provincial Life | Scenes from Provincial Life brings together, in one volume, J.M. Coetzee’s majestic trilogy of fictionalised memoir, Boyhood, Youth and Summertime It opens in a small tow...

The Railway | Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. Among those whose stories we hear are M...

Kaddish For An Unborn Child | 'A fine and powerful piece of work… Dark, at times cryptic, and hugely energetic' Irish Times "No!" is the first word of this haunting novel. It is how a middle-aged Hung...

The Haunted Hotel | An enjoyable 19th century read following doomed happenings and grisly, secret premonitions. An eminent doctor is visited by a desperate woman with a question: am I evil, or insane?...

Balancing Acts. Behind the Scenes at the National Theatre | This is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre. It is a story of lunatic failures and spectacular succes...

The Man Who Planted Trees | 'And so, with great care, he planted his hundred acorns' While hiking through the wild lavender in a wind-swept, desolate valley in Provence, a man comes across a solitary ...

How Far Can You Go | Polly, Dennis, Angela, Adrian and the rest are bound to lose their spiritual innocence as well as their virginities on the journey between university in the 1950s and the marriage...

The Quiet American | Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to ...

Eureka | Summer, 1967. As London shimmers in a heat haze and swoons to the sound of Sergeant Pepper, a mystery film – Eureka – is being shot by German wunderkind Reiner Werther Kloss. The screenwriter...

The American Civil War | This major and long-awaited work is the definitive history of the American Civil War by our greatest military historian. The American Civil War was one of the longest and bloo...

Doctor Thorne | Doctor Thorne was considered by Trollope to be the best of his works - a profound examination of the relationship between money and love, as it shifts away from the city of Barchester ...

The Camomile Lawn | Behind the large house, the fragrant camomile lawn stretches down to the Cornish cliffs. Here, in the dizzying heat of August 1939, five cousins have gathered at their aunt's house...

Her Fearful Symmetry | When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never a...

Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven | Ball games, cars, and romances: the icons and battlefields of modern life. In twenty-two linked stories, with infinite humour and pathos, Sherman Alexie exp...

The Four Books | In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing Re-education, to resto...

Travels With My Aunt | Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric, daring aunt. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, m...

Angels And Insects | Reissued with a beautiful new illustrative cover, two magical and timeless novellas from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession Like A.S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel...

The Mars Room | Shortlisted For The Man Booker Prize 2018 A New York Times Bestseller From the author of internationally acclaimed The Flamethrowers - a fearless and heartbreaking novel about love, fr...

This Sporting Life | 'Extraordinarily mature - technically as well as emotionally' Sunday Times Arthur Machin's life changes when he is picked for the Rugby league team in his local town. Once a strug...

A Lover's Discourse | A Chinese woman comes to post-Brexit London to start over - just as the Brexit campaign reaches a fever pitch. Isolated and lonely in a Britain increasingly hostile to foreigners...

The Story of Doctor Dolittle | ‘Many years ago – when our grandfathers were little children – there was a doctor and his name was Dolittle’ Dr Dolittle lives in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh with his friends ...

Three Assassins | Suzuki is just an ordinary maths teacher...until his wife is murdered. Seeking justice, he leaves his old life behind to infiltrate the criminal gang responsible. What he doesn't rea...

Pulse | The stories in Julian Barnes' long-awaited third collection are attuned to rhythms and currents: of the body, of love and sex, illness and death, connections and conversations. A divorcee fall...

Culture and Society | Acknowledged as a masterpiece of materialist criticism, this book delves into the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination. Surveying two hundred years of history and...

The Glass Kingdom | Sarah Talbot Jennings, a young American living in New York, has fled to Bangkok to disappear. Armed with a suitcase full of cash, she takes up residence at the Kingdom, a glitterin...

Jane Eyre | 'Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? - You think wrong!' This is the story of Jane, an orphan in Victorian England, she is relentlessl...

The Complete Fairy Tales | Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection. Wolves and grandmothers, ugly sisters, a house made o...

Doctor Zhivago | Doctor Zhivago is the epic novel of Russia in the throes of revolution and one of the greatest love stories ever told. Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, wrestles with cruel experience...

The Unicorn | Iris Murdoch's witty, atmospheric subversion of the Victorian Gothic novel WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STEPHEN MEDCALF When Marian Taylor takes the post of governess at Gaze castle, remote h...

Shark Drunk. The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean | Shark Drunk is, in part, the tale of two men in a very small boat on the trail of a very big fish. It is also ...

The Man Who Ate the Zoo. Frank Buckland, forgotten hero of natural history | Frank Buckland was an extraordinary man – surgeon, natural historian, popular lecturer, bestselling writer, museum curator,...

Soumchi | A young boy coming of age in British-occupied Jerusalem trades away one possession after another, only to find something much more wonderful – his first love When Soumchi, an eleven-year-old...

The Schooldays of Jesus | David is the small boy who is always asking questions. Simon and Ines take care of him in their new town, Estrella. He is learning the language, he has begun to make friends ...

Foreigners. Three English Lives | 'A brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact that tells the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the place and role o...

Traitor's Purse | Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Celebrated detective Albert Campion awakes in hos...

A Man In Love | This is a book about leaving your wife and everything you know. It is about fresh starts, about love, about friendship. It is also about the earth-shattering experience of becoming a f...

Nemesis. The Hunt for Brazil’s Most Wanted Criminal | Husband. This is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel and Brazil's most notoriou...

Touch the Water, Touch the Wind | As the Germans advance into Poland in 1939, Elisha Pomeranz, a Jewish mathematician and watchmaker, escapes into the wintry forest, leaving behind his beautiful, inte...

Hocus Pocus | Some get all the luck - but not Eugene Debs Hartke. Ex-Vietnam vet, ex-college professor, and now a TB-stricken inmate at Tarkington State Reformatory, his life has been warped by one lu...

Icebreaker. A Voyage Far North | Bestselling travel writer Horatio Clare joins an icebreaker for a voyage through the ice-packs of the far north. 'We are celebrating a hundred years since independence...

Colonel Sun | Discover Kingsley Amis's classic James Bond tie-in. First published in 1968, four years after Ian Fleming's death, this was the first Bond 'continuation' novel. Catch up on this new take...

Soul | 'For the mind, everthing is in the future' Platonov once wrote; 'for the heart, everything is in the past'. The protagonist of Soul is a young man torn between these opposing desires, sent as a...

Little Infamies | 'A very fine collection of connected short stories - funny, disturbing, ironic and bloody' - Annie Proulx, Daily Telegraph Panos Karnezis' remarkable stories are all set in the same ...

The Breast | Like a latter-day Gregor Samsa, Professor David Kepesh wakes up one morning to find that he has been transformed. But where Kafka's protagonist turned into a monstrous cockroach, the narr...

Under the Frog | Tibor Fischer's hilarious first novel follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the revolution o...

Self-Portrait | I'm not a portrait painter. If I'm anything, I have always been an autobiographer. In Self-Portrait, Celia Paul reveals a life truly lived through art. She moves effortlessly through t...

Green River Rising | An edge-of-your-seat thriller for all fans of James Ellroy, Cormac McCarthy and John Grisham. For fans of The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Rock. After three years'...

Bonfire of the Vanities | An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of modern American prose Sherman McCoy is a WASP...

The Growing Season | What if anyone could have a baby? A boldly original and unforgettable novel from a rising star. Now we have equality. Now we've outgrown our biology. With FullLife's baby pouch, w...

Diane Arbus. A Biography | Diane Arbus's startling photographic images of dwarfs, twins, transvestites, and freaks seemed from the first to redefine both the normal and the abnormal in our lives; they...

To a Mountain in Tibet | Mount Kailas is the most sacred of the world's mountains - holy to one fifth of humanity. Isolated beyond the central Himalayas, its summit has never been scaled, but for cent...

Games at Twilight | 'Beautifully accomplished and memorable' The Times Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, these stories reflect the kaleidoscope of urban life - evoking the colour, sounds an...

The Sound of Waves | A classic, elegant romance set in a Japanese fishing village. 'A work of art...altogether a joyous and lovely thing' New York Times Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The S...

Deception | He is a middle-aged American writer called Philip; she is an articulate, well-educated Englishwoman trapped in a loveless and humiliating marriage. In Philip's London studio, this play of ...

The Ministry of Fear | A detective story where the detective is implicated in the crime and the hero is an enigma to the reader and to himself. For Arthur Rowe the charity fкte was a trip back to chil...

Unwinnable. Britain’s War in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 | The definitive, chilling account of Britain's involvement in Afghanistan and the first book to document the entire conflict, from the leading acad...

The Only Story | Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real question. First love has lifelong consequences, bu...

Voices. How a Great Singer Can Change Your Life | ‘A brilliant book about singing… I have been talking to Nick Coleman about music, in person and in my head, for forty years now. [With Voices] you hav...

The Portrait of a Lady | 'Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry' Graham Greene Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independen...

Death at the Opera | Rediscover Gladys Mitchell - one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Hillmaston School has chosen The Mikado for their...