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The Woman Who Walked Into Doors | From the Booker Prize winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha and The Commitments: the story of an ordinary woman whose extraordinary character will stay with you lon...

Quichotte | Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling author Salman Rushdie has created a dazzling Don Quixote for the modern age. Inspired by the Cervantes classic, Sam DuChamp, mediocre writ...

The Bridge on the River Kwai | The Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sac...

Stranger in the Shogun's City. A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan | The daughter of a Buddhist priest, Tsuneno was born in 1804 in a village in Japan's snow country and was expected to lead a ...

Henry VIII. King and Court | Henry VIII, renowned for his command of power and celebrated for his intellect, presided over one of the most magnificent-and dangerous-courts in Renaissance Europe. Never...

Love and Friendship | 'A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight' Sunday Telegraph Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. Howe...

A General Theory of Oblivion | The brilliant new novel from the winner of the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she w...

Sonnets | Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare`s sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers a...

A Vision of the World. Stories | John Cheever - the 'Chekhov of the suburbs' - forever altered the landscape of contemporary literature. In a career that spanned nearly fifty years, his short stories,...

Life Before Man | Life Before Man explores the lives of three people imprisoned by walls of their own construction and in thrall to the tragicomedy we call love. Elizabeth, with her controlled sensual...

This Night's Foul Work | On the outskirts of Paris, two men have been found with their throats cut. In Normandy, two stags have been killed and their hearts cut out. Meanwhile a seventy-five-year-old ...

Quicksand & Passing | Celebrating the finest works of the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important Black arts movements in modern history. 'She could neither conform nor be happy in her unconform...

The Age of Innocence | 'Wharton's dazzling skills as a stylist, creator of character, ironical observer and unveiler of passionate, thwarted emotions have earned her a devoted following’ Sunday Times ...

The Devil at Saxon Wall | Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Psychoanalyst and detective Mrs Bradley advi...

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 ...

A Tale of Two Cities | 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, t...

The Wind in the Willows | "Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!" Tired of spring cleaning, Mole ventures above ground into the warm sunshine,...

Mother Night | 'Black satire of the highest polish' Guardian Whilst awaiting trial for war crimes in an Israeli prison, Howard W. Campbell Jr sets down his memoirs on an old German typewriter. He has ...

The Iliad | Read this stunning translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the fall of the city of Troy. High on Olympus, Zeus and the assembled ...

Inside Story | Life...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead. So begins a love letter to life, a resuscitation of sorts,...

The Death of Jesus | Simon and David - a tall ten-year-old - are in a new land, together with a woman named Ines. The small family have found a home in which David can thrive. But David is spotted by ...

Baudolino | 'A totally compelling journey into a lost world - a masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph An extraordinary epic, brilliantly-imagined, new novel from a world-class writer and author of The Name of...

Bridget Jones. Mad About the Boy | Celebrate twenty-five years of Britain's favourite singleton with this laugh-out-loud number one bestseller. Is it morally wrong to have a blow-dry when one of your ...

Isa and May | Isamay's unusual name comes from her two very different grandmothers, Isa and May, who were both present at her birth and who have both formed and influenced her whole life in very parti...

Noah's Compass | 'As exquisitely observed and quietly brilliant as the rest of Tyler's fiction' Guardian Liam Pennywell has spent most of his life dodging issues and skirting adventure when suddenly, ...

Fatherhood | Karl Ove Knausgaard explores the day to day realities of fatherhood in the ultimate literary gift for dads. How to be a good father? Children’s birthday parties, unsuccessful family holid...

The Tiger In The Smoke | Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? A fog is creeping through the weary street...

The Good Soldier | A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion. When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora Ashburnham they appear to be the perfect couple. He is a di...

Something I've Been Meaning To Tell You | A remarkable early collection of stories by Alice Munro, the bestselling author of Dear Life, and one of the greatest fiction writers of our time. None. Катег...

A Broken World. Letters, Diaries and Memories of the Great War | A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son at ...

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 ...

Engleby | Mike Engleby has a secret... This is the story of Mike Engleby, a working-class boy in the seventies who wins a place at an esteemed English university. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity,...

Kidnapped | 'For God's sake, hold on!' On a stormy night off the coast of Scotland, young David Balfour faces his most terrifying test yet. He's been double-crossed by his wicked uncle, tricked into a...

Quartz and Feldspar. Dartmoor - A British Landscape in Modern Times | Granite, a tough composite of quartz, feldspar and mica, is the stuff of Dartmoor, the most formidable of the five granite bosses ...

Saville | 'If you are looking for an intellectual and artistic honesty, a patient thoughtfulness and detailed insight into other lives...this novel will delight and move you' Guardian In spite of his ...

The Gospel According to Jesus Christ | Saramago's ingenious fictionalised account of the life of Jesus Saramago's Jesus is the son not of God but of Joseph. Mary Magdalene is his lover not his convert...

Voices | It is a few days before Christmas and a Reykjavik doorman and occasional Santa Claus, Gudlauger, has been found stabbed to death in his hotel room in a sexually compromising position. It soon...

Apple and Knife | A dazzling, provocative debut story collection from celebrated Indonesian writer Intan Paramaditha, putting fierce female characters centre stage in brilliantly funny and sharp twist...

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This is du...

Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom | Nik Cohn began to write this book in the late 1960s with a simple purpose: to catch the feel, the pulse of Rock. Nobody had written a serious book on the subject before, a...

Lost Horizon | The gripping adventure that invented the mystery of Shangri-La. Flying out of India, a light aircraft is hi-jacked and flown into the high Tibetan Himalayas. The few passengers on board...

Sleepy Hollow and Other Stories | There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some witching power; the neighbourhood abound...

Silas Marner | A heartwarming and poignant tale of a lonely man brought back to life and faith. Silas Marner lives a friendless and isolated existence near the country village of Raveloe, hoarding his...

While Mortals Sleep | Издание полностью на английском языке. While Mortals Sleep is a Smart, clear-eyed collection of stories from one of the most original writers in American fiction. Set in trailers...

So Much Life Left Over | A heartbreaking story of love, loss and survival from the multi-million copy bestselling author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Returning from life as a fighter pilot in the Fi...

The Moor's Last Sigh | 'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin. He ...

Zone One | A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is...

The Story of a Life | Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia's most lauded lost classics, now in a remarakble new translation. 'Outstanding... A sparkling, supremely precious literary achievement' T...

Knockemstiff | Blunt, brutal, but infused with a deep sympathy, Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and hilarious collection of stories set in a tiny town in Southern Ohio. The youth of Knockemstiff grow up ...

The Prague Cemetery | Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French cr...

Anne of Green Gables | 'It's a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn't it?' My dislikes: Being an orphan, having red hair, being called 'carrots' by Gi...

Girl At The Lion d'Or | Mid-1930s, Northern France. A mysterious young girl named Anne Louvet arrives at the seedy Hotel du Lion d'Or in the small French town of Janvilliers. She is seeking a job and ...

Pied Piper | Nevil Shute’s classic Second World War novel is an uplifting, satisfying and moving story. John Howard is determined to brighten up his old age by taking a fishing trip to France. However...

Correction | Roithamer, a character based on Wittgenstein, has committed suicide having been driven to madness by his own frightening powers of pure thought. We witness the gradual breakdown of a geni...

The Laughing Monsters | 'In this land of chaos and despair, all I can do is wish for magic armour and the power to disappear.' Freetown, Sierra Leone. A city of heat and dirt, of guns and militia. Alo...

Paradise News | Bernard Walsh, agnostic theologian, has a professional interest in heaven. But when he travels to Hawaii with his reluctant father Jack, to visit Jack's dying, estranged sister it feel...

Old Man Goya | 'Blackburn rescues the man from inside the madman. She redeems a lost life' - The Times In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illn...

The Count of Monte Cristo | A brilliant story of intrigue, retribution, revenge and redemption. Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitter years in a dungeon. When h...

I'm Your Man. The Life of Leonard Cohen | The definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist. The genius behind such classic songs as Suzanne, So Long...

Solar | 'Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm' Michael Beard is a Nob...

August 1914 | In the first month of the First World War the Russian campaign against the Germans creaks into gear. Crippled by weak, indecisive leadership the Russian troops battle desperately, even a...

Mud and Stars. Travels in Russia | A wonderfully original book about contemporary Russia as seen on journeys in search of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Lermontov, Chekhov, Gogol and Turgenev. Shortlisted For The ...

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. The Astounding Interconnectedness of the Universe | Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. The Astounding Interconnectedness of the UniverseThe most thrilling, genre-busting, un...

After the Fire | The final novel from the bestselling author of the Inspector Wallander mysteries Fredrik Welin is a seventy-year-old retired doctor. Years ago he retreated to the Swedish archipelago,...