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Married Love | A beguiling collection of short stories from award-winning author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Tessa Hadley. Lottie announces at the breakfast table that she is getting m...

Journey Into Cyprus | Cyprus, spring 1972. Tensions are rising between the Greek South and the Turkish North. Within two years, the country will become divided. It is at this distinctive time in histo...

Liberty | Why should one half be free to live, while the other is doomed to watch silently from the sidelines? In this visionary collection, Virginia Woolf leads us on a transformative journey through...

Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe | A gorgeously re-packaged edition of the classic story of friendship, loyalty and secrets set in the deep south of America in the 1930s Rediscover the ul...

By Night in Chile | During the course of a single night, Father Sebastian Urrutia Lacroix, a Chilean priest, who is a member of Opus Dei, a literary critic and a mediocre poet, relives some of the cru...

Drinking | What’s the worst another drink could do? John Cheever pours out our most sociable of vices, and hands it to us in a highball. From the calculating teenager who raids her parents’ liquor cab...

Gain | In Lacewood, Illinois, Laura Bodey, a divorced mother of two and real estate agent, plunges into a new existence when she learns that she has cancer. This same small town is home to Clare & Com...

The Castle Of Crossed Destinies | A group of travellers chance to meet, first in a castle, then a tavern. Their powers of speech are magically taken from them and instead they have only tarot cards wi...

Motherhood | Having reached her late thirties, a woman considers whether or not to become a mother. Over the course of several years, casting amond the influence of her partner, family, mysticism and ...

Paradise | Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of P...

Hard Times | 'Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.' The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and pay attentio...

We Need New Names | Ten-year-old Darling has a choice: it's down, or out 'To play the country-game, we have to choose a country. Everybody wants to be the USA and Britain and Canada and Australia and ...

Middlemarch | Discover one of the most admired, best loved and influential novels in the history of English literature. The perfect long read to lose yourself in. ‘If we had a keen vision and feeling ...

The Hotel | The first novel from one of the twentieth century's most admired and stylish writers It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Ita...

The Little Prince | A New Translation by Michael Morpurgo, Author of War Horse If a little fellow comes along, if he laughs, if he has golden hair, and if he never answers questions, then you will kno...

The Last Quarter of the Moon | 'A long-time confidante of the rain and snow, I am ninety years old. The rain and snow have weathered me, and I too have weathered them' At the end of the twentieth cent...

Hurricanes in Perfect Power. Tales of Modern Motherhood | A stunning new collection of short stories about motherhood, selected and introduced by Candice Brathwaite. The story of motherhood is an endl...

Those Bones Are Not My Child | 'A magnum opus... Puts the reader at the heart of the horror that came to be called the Atlanta child murders' Toni Morrison Zala Spencer is barely surviving on the marg...

The Daydreamer | Peter Fortune is a boy who likes to daydream. He dreams about swapping bodies with his cat and with his baby cousin, but he gets so lost he's unsure where one fantasy finishes and the...

Ten Novels And Their Authors | Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its finest. Afforded here are some of the formul...

Talented Mr. Ripley | Tom Ripley is struggling to stay one step ahead of his creditors, and the law, when an unexpected acquaintance offers him a free trip to Europe and a chance to start over. Ripley...

The Hare With Amber Eyes | Edmund de Waal uncovers the history of a family through a turbulent century through 264 objects. 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de ...

The Comet Seekers | Two lives. One night sky. Roisin and Francois first meet in the snowy white expanse of Antarctica, searching for a comet overhead. While Roisin grew up in a tiny village in Ireland...

The Beautiful Cure. The New Science of Human Health | Understand how our immune system fights disease and enables the body to heal itself. 'Thrilling... Reads like the best kind of adventure story' ST...

The Essential Hemingway | The Essential Hemingway brings together a wide selection of Hemingway's works, providing the perfect introduction to his extensive writing. The collection includes the full t...

Augustus | By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestseller After the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen, suddenly finds him...

To Know A Woman | Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, Israeli secret service agent Yoel Ravid retires to the suburbs with his daughter, mother and mother-in-law. After a lifetime of un...

Slow Man | Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he t...

The Prince | Machiavelli’s highly influential treatise on political power 'It is far safer to be feared than loved...' The Prince shocked Europe on publication with its advocacy of ruthless tactics fo...

Blood on Snow | The contract killer. Olav lives the lonely life of a fixer. When you 'fix' people for a living - terminally - it's hard to get close to anyone. The gangster's wife. Now he's finally me...

The Devil's Star | Harry can't trust his own memory A man is caught on CCTV, shooting dead a cashier at a bank. Detective Harry Hole begins his investigation, but after dinner with an old flame wakes ...

The Commonwealth of Thieves. The Story of the Founding of Australia | The story of modern Australia begins in eighteenth-century Britain, where people were hanged for petty offences but crime was rife...

The Lost World | Arthur Conan Doyle leaves Baker Street far behind in this ripping yarn about a undiscovered land where dinosaurs and ape-men roam The notorious Professor Challenger claims that dinosa...

Selected Stories | A girl shares her secret den. A couple stroll through a ruined city. A man walks into a ladies' hat shop. A teacher dreams of killing her pupil. Spanning the 1920s to the post-war y...

City of Bohane | The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is on its knees, infested by vice and split along tribal lines. There are still some posh parts of town, but it is in the sl...

The Mermaid of Black Conch | Near the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself while waiting for a catch. But David attracts a sea-dweller that he never expected - Aycayia, an innocent youn...

Appointment in Samarra | 'For all its excellence as a social panorama and a sketch of a marriage, it is as a picture of a man destroyed by drink and pride that Appointment in Samarra lives frightening...

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...

Sugar | Young and confident, with a swagger in her step, Sugar arrives in the southern town of Bigelow hoping to start over. Soon Bigelow is alight with gossip and suspicion, and Sugar fears her past ...

The Forgiven | Soon to be a major film adaptation starring Jessica Chastain and Ralph Fiennes David and Jo Henniger are on their way to a party at their old friends' home, deep in the Moroccan desert....

Empress Dowager Cixi | Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild Swans In this groundbreaking biography, Jung Chang vivid...

Psychedelics | Could drugs offer a new way of seeing the world? In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what wou...

Just Law | Acute, questioning, humane and passionately concerned for justice, Helena Kennedy is one of the most powerful voices in legal circles in Britain today. Here she roundly challenges the recor...

Dark Lies the Island | A kiss that just won't happen. A disco at the end of the world. A teenage goth on a terror mission. And OAP kiddie-snatchers, and scouse real-ale enthusiasts, and occult weirdne...

A Matter of Death and Life | Marital troubles? Sick of life? Suicide the answer? Why not get yourself a contract killer? Nothing easier, provided you communicate only by phone and box number. You give...

First Person | Young and penniless, Kif Kehlmann, is rung in the middle of the night by notorious con man and corporate criminal, Siegfried Heidl. About to go to trial for defrauding the banks of $700...

The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes | This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious he...

The Northmen's Fury. A History of the Viking World | The Northmen’s Fury tells the Viking story, from the first pinprick raids of the eighth century to the great armies that left their Scandinavian ho...

Dog Years | The final part of the magisterial Danzig Trilogy by Nobel Prize-winning Gunter Grass. In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German ...

Sea Monsters | One autumn afternoon in Mexico City, 17-year-old Luisa does not return home from school. Instead, she boards a bus to the Pacific coast with the reckless, impulsive Tomas, a boy she bar...

Under The Net | Jake, clever and lazy, makes a living out of writing translations and sponging off his friends. When he is kicked out of his latest lodgings he embarks on a series of fantastic and hil...

The Edwardians | Edwardian era love, society and politics explored in this perfect read for Downton Abbey fans. Sebastian is young, handsome and romantic, the heir to a vast and beautiful English coun...

Letting Go | Gabe Wallach, freshly discharged from the Korean War army, reeling from his mother's recent death, and thus freed from old attachments, is hungrily seeking new ones. He's drawn to Paul He...

The Parisian | Midhat Kamal - dreamer, romantic, aesthete - leaves Palestine in 1914 to study medicine in France, under the tutelage of Dr Molineu. He falls deeply in love with Jeannette, the doctor's...

Alfred Hitchcock | Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his b...

Migrations | A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive. Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic terns on what may be their final migrat...

What the Day Owes the Night | 'Darling, this is Younes. Yesterday he was my nephew, today he is our son'. Younes' life is changed forever when his poverty-stricken parents surrender him to the care of...

Night Train to the Stars | Japanese fairy tales - enchanting, enigmatic stories of animals, human beings and the great natural world. Dark and innocent, sublime and whimsical, Miyazawa's stories have ...

The Heat of the Day | A tense thriller of suspicion, betrayal and espionage set in wartime London It is wartime London, and the carelessness of people with no future flows through the evening air. Ste...

Graceland | What if your son was the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll? From the moment she first holds him, Gladys Presley loves her son Elvis ferociously. She is the one by his side when his father is in the ja...

Anna of the Five Towns | Miserly and mysterious, the richest man in the Five Towns lives simply, ruling his household with an iron fist and a cruel temper. His daughter, Anna, is used to the life of s...

Monsieur Ka | The London winter of 1947 is as cold as St Petersburg during the Revolution. Albertine, the wife of a British army officer often abroad on covert government business, finds herself incre...

Collected Stories | Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It - this collection presents some of the best known and most loved works by one of...

The Fashion In Shrouds | Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? First, there is a skeleton in a dinner jac...