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Uncle Tom's Cabin | Beecher Stowe's vivid descriptions uncover the harrowing situations faced by slaves in Civil War America. When a Kentucky farmer faces financial ruin, he reluctantly sells his slav...

Enbury Heath | 'Don't show proper feelin', does it, not turnin' up for 'is dad's funeral?' Siblings Sophia, Harry and Francis have lost both their parents in the last six months. Attending the funeral...

Shadow City. A Woman Walks Kabul | One of the first things I was told when I arrived in Kabul was never to walk... When journalist Taran Khan arrives in Kabul, she uncovers a place that defies her exp...

Mod! From Bebop to Britpop, Britain's Biggest Youth Movement | Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited ‘faces’. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what became, fro...

Black Snow | When Maxudov's bid to take his own life fails, he dramatises the novel whose failure provoked the suicide attempt. To the resentment of literary Moscow, his play is accepted by the legend...

A Quiet Word. Lobbying, Crony Capitalism and Broken Politics in Britain | An explosive and revelatory account about the British lobbying industry and how it affects us all at every level of our lives....

The Tin Can Tree | From the Pulitzer prize-winning Sunday Times bestseller Anne Tyler. The Tin Can Tree is now re-jacketed along with the rest of Tyler's books in striking new backlist style Read Puli...

Mr Weston's Good Wine | Among the residents of a small Dorset town called Folly Down, an unlikely struggle between the forces of good and evil is taking place. For a single winter's evening, Time stan...

Dear George and Other Stories | In this stellar collection of short stories, Helen Simpson explores independence, solitude, marriage, sex and babies with her characteristic blend of comedy and lyricis...

Mrs Dalloway | 'The world wavered and quivered and threatened to burst into flames' In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life, Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details o...

Requiem for a Wren | The mysterious death of a young woman on an Australian farm reveals a bittersweet story of doomed wartime romance amidst a family crisis. Alan Duncan returns to his family home in...

The Cave | Cipriano Algor, an ageing potter, lives with his daughter and her husband in the shadow of the Centre, a nebulous, constantly expanding conglomerate that provides his livelihood - until it ...

Crome Yellow | Denis Stone, a naive young poet, is invited to stay at Crome, a country house renowned for its gatherings of 'bright young things'. His hosts, Henry Wimbush and his exotic wife Priscill...

Journey to the Centre of the Earth | Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses! From the grandpere of science fiction - a perilous and astonishing adventure into the earth's...

Castles Of Steel. Britain, Germany and the Winning of The Great War at Sea | In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmis...

The Stone Raft | A majestic tale, rich in allegory, wit and philosophy; another masterpiece from the Nobel prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago. What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length ...

A Most Remarkable Creature. The Hidden Life of the World’s Smartest Bird of Prey | An enthralling voyage of discovery to meet a rare and mysterious bird of prey that puzzled Darwin, fascinates modern-...

The Tin Drum | On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar recounts the events of his extraordinary life; from the long ni...

Winesburg, Ohio | 'He was the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing' William Faulkner This timeless cycle of short stories lays bare the life of a small tow...

Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights | Blending history, mythology and a timeless love story, this is a satirical, magical masterpiece. In the near future, after a storm strikes New York Cit...

Braised Pork | The dreamlike story of a young woman in contemporary Beijing forging a different life for herself, from one of our brightest new literary stars. One morning in autumn, just after breakf...

T Singer | The new novel in English from one of Norway’s most celebrated writers. T Singer confronts indomitable loneliness in Solstad’s classic, heartbreaking yet darkly comic style. Singer, a thirty...

My Life as a Russian Novel | In this non-fiction novel – road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force – Emmanuel Carrere pursues two consuming obsessions: the disappearance of his grandfather amid ...

Look To The Lady | Finding himself the victim of a botched kidnapping attempt, Val Gyrth suspects that he might be in a spot of trouble. Unexpected news to him – but not to the mysterious Mr Campion, ...

Black Skies | Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble. After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more successful contemporaries, leaving him bitter and resentful, on...

Horizon | From the author of the classic Arctic Dreams comes a vivid recollection of his travels around the world and the encounters that shaped an extraordinary life. Taking us nearly from pole to po...

The Quick | You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick – But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in the wilds of Yorkshire, meet a brother and sister alone in the w...

Island | The collected stories by one of the greatest short-story writers in the world. These slow, beautiful stories - resolute and resonant - are small masterpieces: apparently simple but actually c...

The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum | An unforgettable novel that shows how easily a life can be ruined when the police and the media are allowed to run rampage through a person's life. It resonates as ...

Rainbow Dust. Three Centuries of Delight in British Butterflies | Much more than just another field guide or a natural history of butterflies Rainbow Dust explores the ways in which butterflies deligh...

Eleanor of Aquitaine | Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine was one of the leading personalities of the Middle Ages and also one of the most controversial. She was beautiful, intelligent and wilful, and in h...

The Household Spirit | There's something wrong next door. At least, that's what neighbors Howie Jeffries and Emily Phane both think. Since his daughter and wife moved out, Howie has been alone, an acc...

The Infinite Book | Everything you might want to know about infinity - in history and all the way to today's cutting-edge science. Infinity is surely the strangest idea that humans have ever had. Wher...

We Didn't Mean To Go To Sea | 'Like to spend a night in the Goblin?’ The Swallows are staying on the Suffolk coast while they wait for their father to return home from China. But although the harbour ...

The Big Six | ‘Why shouldn’t we be detectives too?’ When Dick and Dorothea arrive in the Norfolk Broads all set for a blissful summer on the river, they find their friends the Death and Glories in a v...

Disgrace. Reading Guide Edition | 'A great novel by one of the finest authors writing in the English language today' The Times After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape ...

The Scourging Angel. The Black Death in the British Isles | Nothing experienced in human history, before or since, eclipses the terror, tragedy and scale of the Black Death, the disease which killed m...

It's All in Your Head. Stories from the Frontline of Psychosomatic Illness | A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness. Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What se...

A Horse Walks into a Bar | The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of d...

The Philosopher's Pupil | A darkly comic story of creativity, conscience, rebirth and love, which displays all of Murdoch's virtuoso imagination and narrative genius. In the English town of Ennistone,...

The Enchanted April | 'Now she had taken off her goodness and left it behind her like a heap of rain-sodden clothes, and she only felt joy' Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their ...

The Way Back | The sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, one of the most powerful novels of the First World War and a twentieth-century classic. After four gruelling years the survivors of the Gre...

Norwegian Wood | When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years ...

'Cherry' Ingram. The Englishman Who Saved Japan’s Blossoms | Collingwood Ingram, born in 1880, became known as 'Cherry' for his defining obsession. As a young man, he travelled to Japan and learned of...

Life Sentences | Three generations. More than a century of famine, war, violence and love. At sixteen Nancy, the only member of her family to survive the Great Famine, leaves her small island for the ...

The Mystery of a Butcher's Shop | Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. When Rupert Sethleigh's body is foun...

How to Love Animals. And Protect Our Planet | A far-reaching, urgent, and thoroughly engaging exploration of our relationship with animals - from the acclaimed Financial Times journalist. This might b...

Titus Awakes. The Lost Book of Gormenghast | In Titus Awakes the 77th Earl of Groan leaves the crumbling castle of Gormenghast and finds the larger world even stranger than his birthplace. Confronted ...

The Van | Jimmy Rabbitte is unemployed and rapidly running out of money. His best friend Bimbo has been made redundant at the company where he has worked for many years. The two old friends are out of...

The Man Who Lived Underground | Fred Daniels, a black man, is randomly picked up by the police after a brutal murder in a Chicago suburb. Taken to the local precinct, he is tortured -- until he confes...

What Are You Like | Anne Enright's entire backlist to be reissued in sumptuous new series style 'What is a really good novel like? This for a start' The Times When Maria turns twenty, she falls in lov...

Eva Trout | Elizabeth Bowen's last novel, a character study of startling originality which many consider to be her best work With an introduction by Tessa Hadley Imposing, rich, unloved and with a gen...

Lies Of Silence | When Michael Dillon is ordered by the IRA to park his car in the carpark of a Belfast hotel, he is faced with a moral choice which leaves him absolutely nowhere to turn. He knows tha...

Little Men | 'We always allow one pillow-fight Saturday night' Did you ever wonder what happened to Jo March from Little Women? She grew up, of course, and followed her dream to become a writer. In ad...

The Common Reader. Volume 2 | 'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'. So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote her ...

Here Be Dragons | When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. Naive and only nineteen, she bec...

Young Hearts Crying | Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy, has a private fortune that he won't touch in case ...

I Don't Know How She Does It | The twentieth anniversary edition of Allison Pearson's first novel that became a global sensation, now with a new introduction from the author. Meet Kate Reddy, hedge-fu...

My Life, Our Times | Former Prime Minister and the country's longest-serving Chancellor, Gordon Brown has been a guiding force for Britain and the world over three decades. This is his candid, poignan...

The Best Intentions | The first novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman’s trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents In 1909, Ingmar Bergman’s mother and father first ...

Glue | Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences and the secrets that hold them together into their thirties. As we follow their live...

The Giant's House | A powerful and unique story about connection, showing that miracles can happen – even across a library circulation desk. The year is 1950, and in a small town on Cape Cod twenty-ei...

The Testaments | The Republic of Gilead is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, two girls with radically different experiences of the regime come face to face with the legendary, ruth...

Imaginary Homelands | Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays, demonstrating the full range and force of Salman Rush...