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Kalevala | Kalevala is the poetic name for Finland: ‘the land of heroes’. Here you’ll find the cultural essence of a young country but an old land, the stories, songs and poems that recount the mythic...

The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories | 'As good as anything Tolstoy ever wrote... Self-assured, vital, unforgettable' Guardian The title story of this collection is about a man battling a myster...

Beyond Weird | 'I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics.' Richard Feynman wrote this in 1965 - the year he was awarded the Nobel prize in physics for his work on quantum mec...

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...

Redemption Falls | 1865. The American Civil War is ending, but for Eliza Duane Mooney her journey across a devastated America has only just begun. Eliza is searching for her younger brother she has no...

Madame Bovary | Emma Bovary is an avid reader of sentimental novels; brought up on a Normandy farm and convent-educated, she longs for romance. At first, Emma pins her hopes on marriage, but life with...

Last Best Hope. America in Crisis and Renewal | Acclaimed National Book Award-winning author George Packer diagnoses America's descent into a failed state, and envisions a path toward overcoming injus...

Bertie. A Life of Edward VII | Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power and ushered out the Victorian age. The el...

Two Storm Wood | The guns are silent. The dead are not. 1919. On the battlefields of northern France, the guns of the Great War are silent. Special battalions now face the task of gathering up the dea...

A Mercy | On the day that Jacob, an Anglo-Dutch trader, agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment for a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens's life changes irrevocably. With her keen intelli...

For Your Eyes Only | There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. Who killed an elderly couple in their Caribbean home? M knows exactly who did it, but the murderers will most likely escape throug...

Dirt. Adventures In French Cooking | From the author of the widely acclaimed Heat, an exhilarating account of Bill Buford's adventures in the world of French cooking. 'A romping, chomping, savoury tou...

Raised from the Ground | This deeply personal work, follows the changing fortunes of the Mau-Tempo family – poor, landless peasants not unlike the author’s own grandparents. Saramago charts the lives ...

The Decay of the Angel | The fourth and final book in Mishima's landmark tetralogy, The Sea of Fertility The dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility tetraology takes place in the late 1960s. Honda, no...

Waypoints. A Journey on Foot | A spellbinding travel book, exploring the psychology of walking, pilgrimage, solitude and escape. 'An extraordinary, dreamlike journey through West Africa' Adharanand Fi...

Coroner's Pidgin | Agatha Christie called her ‘a shining light’. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? Just returned from years overseas on a secret mi...

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 ...

Cal | Set in the Northern Ireland of the 1980s, Cal tells the story of a young Catholic man living in a Protestant area. For Cal, some choices are devastatingly simple: he can work in an abattoir that...

Lady Chatterley's Lover | Subject of an infamous obscenity trial, Lady Chatterley's Lover is now regarded as one of the pivotal novels of the twentieth century. Clifford Chatterley returns from the Fi...

Life and Fate | The original translation by Robert Chandler, updated and revised The twentieth century War and Peace, a broad portrait of an age and a searing vision of Stalinist Russia, Life and Fate...

Timequake | 'A wise, winning and utterly charming concoction of fiction, commentary and autobiography' Literary Review 'Timequake is sweet, wild and cock-eyed... Vonnegut has always had a true comic e...

The Gold Bug Variations | An enthralling story about desire, new love and the mysteries of science from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory Stuart Ressler, a brilliant biologist, sets o...

The Voyage Out | A party of English people board the Euphrosyne bound for South America. Among them is Rachel Vinrace, young, innocent and wholly ignorant of the world of politics and society. She is ...

A Fairly Honourable Defeat | In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to demonstrate through a Machiavellian experiment h...

Seeking Whom He May Devour | In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the deep-rooted mysteries of one Alpine village's histor...

The Deportees | Roddy Doyle's first ever collection of stories. For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann, a newspaper started by, and aimed at, immigrants to Irela...

The Past | Rivalry, unruly desire and ugly secrets poison a family holiday in this gripping novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love and Late in the Day. 'Few writers give me such c...

Love, Etc | From the winner of the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction comes the highly entertaining sequel to Talking it Over. In Talking it Over Gillian and Stuart were married until Oliver - witty, f...

Dancing in the Dark | Fresh out of high school, Karl Ove moves to a remote fishing village to work as a teacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter, his sole ai...

The Six Wives of Henry VIII | One of the most powerful monarchs in British history, Henry VIII ruled England in unprecedented splendour. In this remarkable composite biography, Alison Weir brings Henr...

X Troop. The Secret Jewish Commandos Who Helped Defeat the Nazis | The untold story of Britain's most secretive special forces unit June 1942. The shadow of the Third Reich falls across Europe. In des...

Karoo | Oscar-winning writer Steve Tesich masterfully creates and destroys the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo. Karoo is an alcoholic who can't get drunk, a loving father who can't bear to be alone with ...

A Sensible Life | A tangled tale of falling in love - with three very different men. Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her selfish and indolent parents, and left to wander the stre...

The Progress Of Love | These dazzling and utterly satisfying stories explore varieties and degrees of love - filial, platonic, sexual, parental and imagined - in the lives of apparently ordinary folk....

The Tusk That Did the Damage | 'There he was, his trunk wrapped in hers. Whatever hurt or sorrow befell him was not really happening to him. He was on the other bank with his mother. He was not here' ...

The Outcast | The bestselling novel from the author of The Snakes, The Outcast is a powerful portrait of unexpected love and treacherous charades against the backdrop of a sleepy post-war English vill...

The Boatman and Other Stories | The breathtaking short story collection from the Costa-shortlisted Irish writer Three gunshots on the Irish border define the course of a young man's life; a writer cli...

The Bass Rock | The Bass Rock has for centuries watched over the lives that pass under its shadow on the Scottish mainland. And across the centuries the fates of three women are linked: to this place,...

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...

A Place for Us | An Indian-Muslim family is preparing for their eldest daughter's wedding. But as Hadia's marriage - one chosen of love, not tradition - gathers the family back together, there is only...

Ashland & Vine | Kate, a grieving, semi-alcoholic film student, invites an elderly woman to take part in an oral-history documentary. Jean declines, but makes her a bizarre counter-offer: if Kate can ...

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...

The Shadows in the Street | Two local prostitutes are found brutally strangled. Serrailler is called back urgently from his sabbatical but by the time he reaches Lafferton another girl has vanished. T...

Mr. Palomar | A witty, elegant novel about looking, seeing, thinking, knowing and understanding Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge;...

The Man From Beijing | In a sleepy hamlet in north Sweden, the local police make a chilling discovery; nineteen people have been brutally slaughtered. It is a crime unprecedented in Sweden's history a...

The Name Of The Rose | The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate.When his delicate mission is suddenly...

A Man of Parts | 'The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now...' Sequestered in his blitz-battered Regent's Park house in 1...

Dead Babies | Six friends are determined to escape for a debauched weekend in the country Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the six twenty-something friends ensconced at Appleseed ...

Skylight | Lisbon, late-1940s. The inhabitants of an old apartment block are struggling to make ends meet. There's the elderly shoemaker and his wife who take in a solitary young lodger; the woman who...

Skin | London, 1985. Joe, father to eleven-year-old Matty, has disappeared, and nobody will explain where he's gone, or why. In the long, hot summer that follows, Matty's hunt for Joe leads to the pon...

Frances and Bernard | It is not love at first sight for Frances and Bernard. She finds him faintly ridiculous while he sees her as aloof. But after that first meeting, Bernard writes Frances a letter ...

Great Expectations | Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His effort...

The Start of Something. The Selected Stories | Nineteen tales of growing up, wising up, and falling in love, spanning more than three decades of prize-winning work by a North American master of the sh...

On Chapel Sands. My mother and other missing persons | Uncovering the mystery of her mother's disappearance as a child: Laura Cumming, prize-winning author and art critic, takes a closer look at her f...

W or The Memory of Childhood | Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in childhood and about childhood. The other...

The End of the Day | A retired widow in rural Connecticut wakes to an unexpected visit from her childhood best friend whom she hasn't seen in forty-nine years. A man arrives at a Bethlehem, Pennsylvan...

The Twilight World | In his first novel, Werner Herzog tells a hypnotic tale inspired by the true story of a Japanese soldier who defended a small island for twenty-nine years after the end of WWII 19...

The Darkness Knows | A frozen body is discovered in the icy depths of Langjokull glacier. The victim: a businessman missing for thirty years. The case: impossible to solve. Until now. Konrad, the reti...

Air and Angels | An unsettling and absorbing tale from the bestselling author of The Woman in Black. Celibate, irreproachable and distinguished, Thomas Cavendish is in his mid-fifties and the obvious ...

The Rings Of Saturn | Encountering an eccentric cast of characters along the way, Sebald confronts the frailty of human existence as he voyages along the Suffolk coast on foot. What begins as the reco...

Ecstasy | Rebecca Navarro, best-selling authoress of Regency romances, suffers a paralysing stroke. Assisted by her nurse, Rebecca plans her revenge on her unfaithful husband. But will Freddy Royle, h...

Have Mercy on Us All | Three times a day in a Parisian square, a curious modern-day crier announces the news items that are left in his box. Over the course of a few days he receives a number of distu...

Silent Earth. Averting the Insect Apocalypse | We have to learn to live as part of nature, not apart from it. And the first step is to start looking after the insects, the little creatures that make o...

Napoleon. A Life in Gardens and Shadows | A revelatory portrait of Napoleon written for our own time, exploring his love of nature and the gardens that gave his revolutionary life its light and shade....