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Appeasing Hitler. Chamberlain, Churchill and the Road to War | A thrilling new history of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary infighting that enabled Hitler and the ...

We, The Drowned | In 1848 a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Not all of them return - and those who do will never be the same. Among ...

The Glass Bead Game | Hermann Hesse's magnum opus and a twentieth-century classic In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game. The elaborately ...

The Sandcastle | A married schoolmaster and young painter must choose between love, duty and ambition - Murdoch at her very best. The quiet life of schoolmaster Bill Mor and his wife Nan is disturbed ...

The Power and the Glory | 'Graham Greene's masterpiece' John Updike During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing ...

Designing Your Life | Change your life in 2021 with the simple, scientifically proven method that has already worked for thousands of people. 'Life has questions. They have answers' New York Times At ...

I Capture the Castle | 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...' This is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain, which tells of her extraordinary family and their crumbling castle home. Cassandra's fathe...

Can't Wait to get to Heaven | Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs Elner Shimfissle is up a tree, picking figs to make jam, and the next thing she knows, she is off on a strange adventure, run...

Butcher's Crossing | Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. In a small town called B...

Stoner | William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father's farm. Stoner ...

Requiem For A Nun | 'The past is never dead. It's not even past.' Nancy, a black nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress's baby. The mother, Temple Drake, knows the reason why. The n...

The Magician | Set in the bohemian cafe society of Paris at the turn of the nineteenth century, Maugham's exploration of hypnotism and the occult was inspired by the sinister black magician Aleister C...

Macbeth | He's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the mess. He's also an ex-drug addict with a troubled past. He's ...

Katherine Swynford | The first full-length biography of an extraordinary love affair between one of the most important men of English History and a thoroughly modern woman. Katherine Swynford was firs...

An Imaginary Life | 'A brilliantly inventive novel... Malouf puts on a dazzling literary display in this arresting, original, lyrical work' Wall Street Journal In the first century AD, Publius Ovidius...

Out | In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory. Burdened with chores and heavy debts and isolated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream ...

Wind/ Pinball | Discover Haruki Murakami's first two novels. 'If you're the sort of guy who raids the refrigerators of silent kitchens at three o'clock in the morning, you can only write accordingly. ...

Pirates Of Barbary. Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean | From the coast of Southern Europe to Morocco and the Ottoman states of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, Christian a...

I Capture the Castle | 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impove...

The Woman Who Changed Her Brain. How We Can Shape our Minds and Other Tales | Barbara Arrowsmith-Young was born with severe learning disabilities that caused teachers to label her as slow, stubborn - ...

Things We Say in the Dark | A shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing supernatural fiction. Alone in a remote house in Iceland a woman is unner...

Dusklands | A megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe for undermining the 'natural' order of his universe with their anarchic rival order, mocking him and subjecti...

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer | The classic boy-hero of American literature. Impish, daring young Tom Sawyer is the bane of the old, the hero of the young. There were some in his dusty old Missippi tow...

Dracula | Collected inside this book are diary entries letters and newspaper clippings that piece together the depraved story of the ultimate predator A young lawyer on an assignment finds himself imp...

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love | The short story that inspired the play at the heart of BIRDMAN starring Michael Keaton, Ed Norton and Emma Stone This powerful collection of stories, set i...

What I Talk About When I Talk About Running | In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens...

Hotel Iris | In a crumbling, seaside hotel on the coast of Japan, quiet, seventeen-year-old Mari works the front desk as her mother fusses over the off-season customers. When, one night, they are forc...

War and Peace | 'If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The Times Tolstoy's enthralling epic depicts Russia's war with N...

Thunderball | There's no better time to rediscover James Bond. SPECTRE - the international terrorist organization led by Blofeld - is holding the world to ransom with two stolen nuclear weapons. Opera...

Talleyrand | Duff Cooper's classic biography charts the remarkable progress of Talleyrand; a silver-tongued master diplomat, infamous turncoat, peacekeeper and libertine. Talleyrand held high office i...

Money | How did money come to be invented? Why does it now have such significance in our lives? Does it make us happier or unhappier? And what does the future hold for it? With brilliant clarity and i...

I Who Have Never Known Men | Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world. Deep underground, thirty-nine women are kept in isola...

The Bookseller of Florence | The Renaissance in Florence conjures images of beautiful frescoes and elegant buildings - the dazzling handiwork of the city's artists and architects. But equally importan...

Journey to Portugal | Jose Saramago takes us on a thrilling literary journey through the land, history and culture of his native country. From the misty mountains of the north to the southern seascape...

American Pastoral | He glides through life cocooned by his devoted family, lucrative business, sporting prowess and good looks. He is the embodiment of thriving, post-war America, land of liberty and ...

After The Quake | Tales of upheaval and confusion, longing and love in the aftermath of the Kobe earthquake. For the characters in after the quake, the Kobe earthquake is an echo from a past they buri...

The Future History of the Arctic. How Climate, Resources and Geopolitics are Reshaping the North | Long at the margins of global affairs, the Arctic now finds itself at the frontline of issues which w...

The Son | SONNY'S ON THE RUN Sonny is a model prisoner. He listens to the confessions of other inmates, and absolves them of their sins. HE'S BEEN LIED TO HIS WHOLE LIFE But then one prisoner's confes...

A Moveable Feast | 'If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.' Ernest Hemingway t...

Queens of the Crusades | Crusading queens, queens in rebellion against their king, queen seductresses, learned queens, queens in battle - the Plantagenet queens broke through medieval constraints to e...

Under the Glacier | 'Wildly original, morose, uproarious... It is also one of the funniest books ever written' Susan Sontag A naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small to...

Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained | Satan is out for revenge. His rebellion has failed, he has been cast out from heaven and is doomed to spend eternity in hell. Somehow he must find a way to prove ...

The Virgin In The Garden | In Yorkshire, the Potter family are preparing to celebrate Elizabeth II's arrival on the throne. Its three youngest members, however, are preoccupied with other matters. Ste...

The Sense of an Ending | Winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less s...

To Kill a Mockingbird | 'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.' Atticus Finch gives this advice to his children as he defends the real moc...

Conviction | It's just a normal morning when Anna's husband announces that he's leaving her for her best friend and taking their two daughters with him. With her safe, comfortable world shattered, Ann...

Parties | 'I want to give a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there's a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet ...

The Magic Mountain | This European masterpiece from the Nobel prizewinner explores the lure and degeneracy of ideas in an introverted community on the eve of World War I. Hans Castorp is 'a perfectly ...

Kafka on the Shore | Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood a...

Don Fernando | Another classic travel book from Maugham; fierce and colourful throughout. Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous cre...

The Morning Star | One long night in August, Arne and Tove are staying with their children in their summer house in southern Norway. Kathrine, a priest, is flying home from a Bible seminar, questionin...

The Noise of Time | In May 1937 a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity...

A Sort of Life | The first volume of Graham Greene's notoriously misleading, mischievous , but nonetheless fascinating autobiography. Graham Greene's 'long journey through time' began in 1904, when he...

Flaubert's Parrot | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction Flaubert's Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France...

A Star Called Henry | Born in the Dublin slums of 1901, his father a one-legged whorehouse bouncer and settler of scores, Henry Smart has to grow up fast. By the time he can walk he's out robbing and ...

The Songlines | Bruce Chatwin provides a fascinating background to indigenous Australian life. The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia, tracks connecting communities and fo...

Once Upon A Time in the East | Xiaolu Guo meets her parents for the first time when she is almost seven. They are strangers to her. When she is born in 1973, her parents hand her over to a childless p...

Ali And Nino | The passionate story of the love between a Muslim boy and a Christian girl - a gripping, romantic novel set during Azerbaijan's fight for independence Ali Khan and Nino Kipiani live in ...

Lancaster and York. The Wars of the Roses | A lucid, gripping account of the human side of one of the bloodiest chapters of British history. The war between the houses of Lancaster and York for the th...

The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-time | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christ...

The Third Man and The Fallen Idol | Graham Greene's tense thriller and the basis for the iconic movie - now rejacketed in a striking and stylish series style 'Graham Greene has wit and grace and chara...

The Black Prince | 'Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.' Ex-tax collector and author of two unpopular novels, Bradley Pearson wishes to devote his retirement...

Good Wives | 'As they sat together in the twilight, talking over their small plans, the future always grew so beautiful and bright' Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy have grown up together in Orchard House with t...

Peak. How All of Us Can Achieve Extraordinatory Things | Do you want to stand out at work, improve your athletic or musical performance, or help your child achieve academic goals? Anders Ericsson has ...