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The Baron in the Trees | 'I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends' Salman Rushdie From the age of twelve, the Baron Cosimo Piovasco d...

The Complete Enderby | Enderby is a poet, social critic and Catholic. He may be found hiding in the lavatory where much of his best work is composed, or perhaps in Rome, brainwashed into respectabilit...

The Warden | The first book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles is a moving, insightful exploration of moral dilemmas fought in public and private. Mr Harding is a good man, the warden to an a...

The Great Gatsby | 'In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars' The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby s...

Anil's Ghost | Anil's Ghost transports us to Sri Lanka, a country steeped in centuries of tradition, now forced into the late twentieth century by the ravages of a bloody civil war. Enter Anil Tissera...

Sonic Wonderland. A Scientific Odyssey of Sound | As an acoustic engineer, Trevor Cox has spent his career eradicating unwanted noises – echoes in concert halls, clamour in classrooms. Until the day h...

Eyeless In Gaza | Anthony Beavis is a man inclined to recoil from life. His past is haunted by the death of his best friend Brian and by his entanglement with the cynical and manipulative Mary Amberle...

Look At the Birdie | Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, mora...

Sad Little Men | In 1975 Richard Beard was sent away to boarding school. So were Boris Johnson and David Cameron. He didn't enjoy it. But the first and most important lesson was not to let that show. ...

Black Beauty | "You saved your mistress's life, Beauty! yes, you saved her life" Black Beauty is the prettiest young horse in the meadows, and spends many happy days under the apple trees with his fri...

The Thrill of it All | At college in 1980s Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist S...

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 Railway Children | '"Stand firm'" said Peter, "and wave like mad!"' They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously leaves home Roberta (everyone calls her Bobbie), Ph...

The English Teacher | R. K. Narayan is one of India's most valued and adored twentieth-century novelists. He takes his place alongside Graham Greene, Elizabeth Bowen and Chekhov in the pantheon of twe...

The Incredible Journey | 'Only one thing was clear and certain - that at all costs he was going home, home to his own beloved master...' The Hunter children must go abroad for the summer, so they relu...

Bluebeard's Egg and Other Stories | Discover this sharp, funny short story collection from the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments A man finds himself surrounded by women who ...

Private Confessions | The final novel in world renowned film-maker, Ingmar Bergman's trilogy of novels plotting the fractious marriage of his parents Twelve years of marriage, three children, a husban...

Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha | Roddy Doyle's Booker Prize-winning novel describes the world of ten-year-old Paddy Clarke, growing up in Barrytown, north Dublin. From fun and adventure on the streets, boredom...

The Battle of London 1939-45. Endurance, Heroism and Frailty Under Fire | Lasting for six long years, the Blitz transformed life in the capital beyond recognition, marking a time of almost constant an...

Fury | In the summer of 2000 New York is a city living at breakneck speed in an age of unprecedented decadence. Into this tumultuous city arrives Malik Solanka. His life has been a sequence of exits. ...

Vanity Fair | 'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year' Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends with the lovely Amelia Sedley at Miss Pinkerton's Academy for Yo...

Five Children and It | Read the ultimate classic comforting coming of age fantasy story. 'Don't you know a sand-fairy when you see one?' I dare say you have often thought about what you would do if yo...

Lotte In Weimar | Read Thomas Mann's meditation on the power of literary representation and the tyranny of the writer's imagination. Mann's novel, written some 150 years after Goethe's The Sorrows of ...

Languages of Truth. Essays 2003-2020 | From 'Best of the Booker' winner Salman Rushdie, an incisive and inspiring collection of non-fiction essays, criticism and speeches that takes readers on a thril...

The Various Haunts of Men | People are going missing. Only one thing links their cases. They all disappear on the hill. A woman vanishes in the fog up on the Hill in Lafferton. The police have one lea...

Sisters | The electrifying novel from the Booker shortlisted author of Everything Under. 'A short sharp explosion of a gothic thriller' Observer Something unspeakable has happened to sisters July and ...

The Matchmaker | Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex. Unsuited to a quiet life, Alda attempts to orchestrate - with...

Witches. James I and the English Witch Hunts | September 1613. In Belvoir Castle, the heir of one of England's great noble families falls suddenly and dangerously ill. His body is 'tormented' with vio...

On The Black Hill | On the Black Hill is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same ...

The Hill Of Evil Counsel | The Hill of Evil Counsel is a fusion of history and imaginative narrative, re-creating the twilight world of Jerusalem during the fading days of the British Mandate. In thes...

Catch-22 | Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it. It's the closing months of World War II and Yossarian has never be...

Cat and Mouse | A powerful story set in war-torn Danzig about a teenager's rise from clown to hero by Nobel Prize-winner Gunter Grass. To compensate for his unusually large Adam's apple - source of bo...

A Study in Scarlet | Discover the first classic Sherlock Holmes novel in this stunning edition, featuring an introduction from Mark Billingham. The is edition also features the short story ‘A Scandal ...

Knowing the Score. My Family and Our Tennis Story | Judy Murray provides the ultimate insight into life with her tennis champion sons Andy and Jamie. What happens when you find you have exceptional ch...

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? | With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his hallmark, Carver showed how humour...

Pride and Prejudice | Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic. When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls...

Coot Club | ‘Let fly jib sheet! Slack away main! Fenders out!’ Dick and Dorothea – also known as The Ds – arrive in Norfolk all ready to learn how to sail. They couldn’t hope for a better teacher than...

To the Top of the Mountain | A man is blown up in a high-security prison. A major drugs baron comes under attack. A massacre takes place in a dark suburb. Detective Paul Hjelm and his team have been d...

Independent People | The great Icelandic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Halldor Laxness 'There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more:...

Boyhood. Scenes from provincial life | In Boyhood, J. M. Coetzee revisits the South Africa of half a century ago, to write about his childhood and interior life. Boyhood's young narrator grew up in a ...

Oblivion | The Quick A woman swims in a remote, milky-blue lagoon. Steam rises from the water and as it clears, a body is revealed in the ghostly light. The Dead Miles away, a vast aircraft hangar ris...

Vermilion Sands | 'Ballard is amongst our finest writers of fiction' Anthony Burgess A futuristic cover - comes with 3d glasses! Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to ...

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...

Half of the Human Race | Summer of 1911. English society is on the brink of change. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette...

Mary Barton. A Tale of Manchester Life | 'Gaskell's shocking, moving and contemporary account of the corrosive effects of injustice and poverty' Sunday Telegraph Mary Barton is the pretty daughter of ...

Jane Eyre | A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Bronte's masterpiece. As an orphan, Jane's childhood is full of trouble, but her stubborn independence and sense of self help her to steer thro...

Zuckerman Unbound | Following the wild success of his novel, Carnovsky, Nathan Zuckerman has been catapulted into the literary limelight. As he ventures out onto the streets of Manhattan he finds hims...

My Antonia | Willa Cather's best-loved novel, and the final book in the Great Plains trilogy, is a beautiful portrayal of friendship, longing and growing up in frontier Nebraska. When young orphan Jim...

Lily | From Sunday Times bestselling novelist Rose Tremain comes a gripping novel of murder and revenge set in Victorian England Nobody knows yet that she is a murderer... London, 1850. On a freezing ...

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena | In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the night by Russian soldiers. Their ...

I Married a Communist | The second novel of Roth’s eloquent American trilogy, set in the tempestuous McCarthy era - a brilliant successor to American Pastoral I Married a Communist charts the rise and...

Foreign Affairs | 'If you're coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs' Guardian Vinnie Miner is an American professor of children's literature...

Gulliver's Travels | 'Among the six indispensable books in world literature' George Orwell In the course of his famous travels, Gulliver is captured by miniature people who wage war on each other beca...

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...

Palaces for the People. How To Build a More Equal and United Society | Too often we take for granted and neglect our libraries, parks, markets, schools, playgrounds, gardens and communal spaces, but d...

Stick Out Your Tongue | The hugely influential book that set Ma Jian on the road to exile from China. 'Outstanding' Irish Times A Chinese writer whose marriage has fallen apart travels to Tibet. As he...

Retreat. Adventures in Search of Silence, Solitude and Renewal | Retreat takes us on a stunning journey through the many ways humans step back from daily life, both in today's world and in our past. '...

The House of the Spirits | As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa...

The Lost Books of the Odyssey | After ten years' journeying Odysseus returns, again and again, to Ithaca. Each time he finds something different: his patient wife Penelope has betrayed him and married...

Night of Fire | It began with a spark... A house is burning. Its six tenants include a failed priest, a naturalist, a neurosurgeon and a photographer. Their landlord's relationship to them is both int...

Peeping Tom | 'The funniest book about sex ever written' - Time Out Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by man...

Italian Life. A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal | How does Italy really work? When Valeria travels from hot, dusty Basilicata to begin her studies in a northern university town, she has little id...

Cockfosters | Cockfosters is a funny, frank and forceful story collection dealing with ageing, ambition and the patterns of repetition and renewal found in long friendships and marriages. It opens irr...

All the Days and Nights | In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's inimitable wisdom and kindness, his sense of...