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The Phantom of the Opera | Discover the classic Gothic horror novel of haunted cellars, opera, murder and unrequited love that inspired Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running west end hit. Christine is a ...

Whisky Galore | It's 1943 and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. When food is in short supply, it is bad enough, but when the whisky runs out, it looks ...

Star of the Sea | In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by injustice and natural disaster, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of fleeing refugees. Among the...

The Red House | From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes a novel about families and secrets Two families. Seven days. One house. Angela and her brother Richard have s...

The Same Sea | 'There is no novelist writing today who catches the feeling of the moment more surely than Amos Oz' Scotsman 'In a world full of hype, noise, and confusion, the simple lucidity of The S...

The Flight From the Enchanter | A vivid, dreamlike novel about a group of people in the power of a mysterious man Annette runs away from her finishing school but learns more than she bargained for in ...

The Hero's Way. Walking with Garibaldi from Rome to Ravenna | In the summer of 1849, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italy's legendary revolutionary hero, fled Rome and led 4,000 of his men hundreds of miles thro...

The Siege of Loyalty House. A new history of the English Civil War | It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war . . . This is the story of a home that ...

Vertigo | What could possibly connect Stendhal's unrequited love, a series of murders by a clandestine organisation, the Great Fire of London, a story by Kafka and a closed-down pizzeria in Verona? Pa...

Dreadnought. Britain, Germany and the Coming of the Great War | A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany during the d...

Sartre | Iris Murdoch's unique study of one of the 20th century's foremost thinkers Sartre's powerful political passions were united with a memorable literary gift, placing him foremost among the nove...

In Patagonia | Bruce Chatwin sets off on a journey through South America in this wistful classic travel book With its unique, roving structure and beautiful descriptions, In Patagonia offers an origin...

Death at Intervals | In an unnamed country, on the first day of the New Year, people stop dying. There is great celebration and people dance in the streets. They have achieved the great goal of humani...

Gods Behaving Badly | Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: nobody believes in you any more, even your own family doesn't respect you, and yo...

Wilkie Collins | Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he ...

Maoism. A Global History | The first global history of Maosim that explores Maos' life, ideas, influence and legacy as a power that shaped the world well beyond the borders of China. 'A landmark work ...

Freedom | Can we ever be wholly free? In this book of breathtaking imaginary leaps that conjure dystopias and magical islands, Margaret Atwood holds a mirror up to our own world. The reflection we are...

London and the South-East | Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life- professional, sexual, weekends, the lot. He only wi...

The Bat. The First Harry Hole Case | Harry is out of his depth. Detective Harry Hole is meant to keep out of trouble. A young Norwegian girl taking a gap year in Sydney has been murdered, and Harry ha...

The Foundation Pit | Platonov's dystopian novel describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future. As they work harder and dig deeper, t...

House of Meetings | 'The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years' Literary Review There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distanc...

The Treeline. The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth | A ground-breaking and beautifully written investigation into the Arctic Treeline with an urgent environmental message. The Arctic treeli...

Himalaya. A Human History | An epic story of peoples, cultures and adventures among the world's highest mountains: here Jesuit missionaries exchanged technologies with Tibetan Lamas, Mongol Khans empl...

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | In the third volume of the Millennium series, Lisbeth Salander lies in critical condition in a Swedish hospital, a bullet in her head. But she's fighting for he...

Sense and Sensibility | 'Beautifully designed... Perfect collectable gift for Austen fans and design devotees' So Darling Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from...

Selected Stories | Selected and with a New Introduction by Tessa Hadley 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 ki...

The Scarlet Letter | 'One of the greatest allegories in all literature' D.H. Lawrence Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an outcast. In the eyes of her neighbours she has committed ...

The Commitments | Barrytown, Dublin, has something to sing about. The Commitments are spreading the gospel of the soul. Ably managed by Jimmy Rabbitte, brilliantly coached by Joey 'The Lips' Fagan, th...

The Unwinding. Thirty Years of American Decline | America is in crisis. In the space of a generation the country has become divided between winners and losers, with its political system on the verge o...

Diary of a Bad Year | An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East,it is...

Australia. A Biography of a Nation | Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the inspiring story of how a one-time Br...

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 ...

Persepolis I & II | The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the great-grandaughter of Iran's last emperor, Satrapi bears witness...

White on White | A student moves to the city to research Gothic nudes, renting an apartment from a painter, Agnes, who lives in another town with her husband. One day, Agnes arrives in the city and se...

Endeavour | An inventive biography of one of the most famous ships of all time - recently discovered off the coast of America- Endeavour is an alluring combination of history, adventure and science. F...

Red Thread. On Mazes and Labyrinths | A thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir. The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur,...

The Snowman | A young boy wakes to find his mother missing. Outside, he sees her favourite scarf - wrapped around the neck of a snowman. Detective Harry Hole soon discovers that an alarming number of ...

Gould's Book of Fish | Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict...

The Ascent Of Rum Doodle | An English comic novel about a World War II expedition to a Himalayan peak. An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, The Ascent of Rum ...

Misunderstanding in Moscow | A captivating novella about long-term relationships, getting older and how to live a good life, by the great Simone de Beauvoir. Nicole and Andre, a retired French couple,...

Notes From the Blockade | The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance into Russia and became a national symbol of ...

The Weather Machine. How We See Into the Future | From satellites circling the Earth, to weather stations far out in the ocean, through some of the most ingenious minds and advanced algorithms at work...

The Hound of the Baskervilles | Sherlock Holmes stars in Doyle’s most famous detective story. The Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying, supernatural hound roams the moors around Baskervi...

Autumn | Autumn begins with a letter Karl Ove Knausgaard writes to his unborn daughter. He adds one short piece each day, describing the material and natural world - from twilight to the migration of ...

The Piano Shop on the Left Bank | 'Elegant and enjoyable...a thoughtful exploration of the twin delights of the piano and the Parisian life' Express on Sunday T. E. Carhart, an American living in Pari...

Doctor Faustus | A masterpiece of German modernism and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Adrian Leverkuhn is a young man destined for success. He is a composer - creative and brilli...

Paris Echo | American academic Hannah and runaway Moroccan teenager Tariq have little in common, yet both find themselves haunted by the ghosts of Paris. Hannah listens to the extraordinary witness of...

The Moons Of Jupiter | 2021 sees all of Alice Munro's backlist reissued in a new, modern look. These editions will appeal to a broad range of literary readers The Winner Of The Nobel Prize In Literatu...

Memoirs | Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). ...

How Late It Was, How Late | Sammy's had a bad week. Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not. His wallet's gone, along with his new shoes, he's b...

The Humbling | Simon Axler is one of America's leading classical stage actors, but his talent - his magic - has deserted him. All the spontaneity and unthinking impulsiveness that made him great has b...

Another Now. Dispatches from an Alternative Present | What would a fair and equal society actually look like? Imagine a world with no banks. No stock market. No tech giants. No billionaires. In Anothe...

Agnes Grey | Discover the lesser-known but brilliant novel by the hugely under-appreciated Anne Bronte. When Agnes's father loses the family savings, young Agnes determines to make her own living - as...

The Other Side of the Bridge | A powerful, heart-breaking story about tempting fate and living with the consequences Arthur and Jake are brothers yet worlds apart. Arthur is older, shy, dutiful and se...

Selected Letters | The finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters are brought together in a single volume. It is a marvellous collection - spontaneous, witty, often flirtatious and powerful...

Enduring Love | One windy spring day in the Chilterns, Joe Rose's calm, organized life is shattered by a ballooning accident. The afternoon, Rose reflects, could have ended in mere tragedy, but for hi...

Dreams | Have you ever dreamt you were naked on stage, or woken having failed an exam? In these fascinating, pioneering essays, Sigmund Freud plunges into the recesses of our minds, and awakens the hi...

Little Women and Good Wives | Discover the classic tale behind the hit film and one of the most beloved, comforting, charming stories of all time. Life in the March household is full of adventures as ...

Austerity | How do we choose between what is fair and just, and what our debtors demand of us? Yanis Varoufakis was put in such a dilemma in 2015 when he became the finance minister of Greece. In this...

Nothing but the Night | Arthur Maxley is a tense and listless young man. One day he receives a letter from his long-estranged father. Arthur's fear and aversion to the man is powerful, yet his compuls...

Rhyming Life and Death | An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories...

Great Expectations | 'Hold your noise! Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!' Little orphan Pip scarcely imagines how a terrifying encounter with a convict on the lonely marshes will ...

Serotonin | A powerful criticism of modern life by one of the most provocative and prophetic writers of our age Florent-Claude Labrouste is dying of sadness. Despised by his girlfriend and on the brin...

Free Love | As London comes alive with the 1960s youth revolution, one woman makes a choice that defies all expectations. It's 1967 and London is alive with the new youth revolution. In the suburbs, m...