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Emma | Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early books with a deep sensibility' Observer Emma is young, rich and independent. She has decided not to get married and instea...

A Slipping Down Life | 'Wickedly good' John Updike In a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram 'Drumstrings' Casey, and decides to take her life ...

Heliopolis | As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now twenty-seven, he works high above the above the sprawling me...

Liars in Love | The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the depiction of the complications of divorced families, grown-up d...

The Thought Gang | France. A skint, clapped-out British philosopher meets an incompetent, freshly released, one-armed, armed robber. The Thought Gang is born as the duo blag their way from Montpellier...

The Snapper | Meet the Rabbitte family, motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells whose everyday purgatory is rich with hangovers, dogshit and dirty dishes. When the older sister announces her pregnancy...

Bagombo snuff box | Издание полностью на английском языке. Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at General Electric sold his first short story to one o...

Smile | Just moved into a new apartment, alone for the first time in years, Victor Forde goes every evening to Donnelly’s pub for a pint, a slow one. One evening his drink is interrupted. A man in sho...

Dracula | 'I am Dracula. And I bid you welcome to my house' He is deathly pale. His fingernails are cut to sharp points. His teeth protrude menacingly from his mouth in clouds of rancid breath… Yet ev...

Bird Brain | A very, very funny novel about country sports, murder, intrigue - and talking pheasants. It begins for Basil 'Banger' Peyton-Crumbe the day he dies in a pheasant-shooting incident. A trag...

Memed, My Hawk | Memed grows up a serf to a vicious overlord on the thistle-clad plains of Turkey’s Taurus region. When his plan to escape is dashed, and the young woman he loves murdered, Memed makes...

The Family Moskat | A magnificent, terrifying, panoramic view of the decline of the Polish Jewry told by the Nobel Prize winning writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer In the topsy-turvy years between the dawn...

Up in the Old Hotel | Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. The hidden corners of the city and the people who lived there are his subject. He captured the waterfront rooming-houses , nickel-a-drin...

Live a Little | A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery...

The Fall Guy | Charlie, a wealthy banker with an uneasy conscience, invites his troubled cousin Matthew to visit him and his wife in their idyllic mountain-top house over the summer. As the days grow ...

Twenty-One Stories | A celebrated collection of stories from one of the most important British writers of the twentieth century. Features Greene's most famous short story, 'The Destructors' Written be...

Black Chalk | One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was only ever meant to be a game. A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their f...

Senor Vivo & The Coca Lord | Discover the second gripping novel in Louis de Bernieres' satricial tragic, hilarious South American trilogy. Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosophy, is pu...

In the Darkness | Eva is walking by the river with her seven-year-old daughter when they catch sight of a man’s body in the water. Eva tells her daughter to wait while she calls the police, but when s...

Pale Rider. Spanish Flu of 1918 & How it Changed the World | With a death toll of between 50 and 100 million people and a global reach, the Spanish flu of 1918-1920 was the greatest human disaster, no...

A Rose For Winter | Andalusia is a passion - and fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned. He found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the...

Nuns and Soldiers | A romantic tangle, and a web of ideas and emotions from one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists. Gertrude has lost her husband and Anne, an ex-nun, her God. They plan to ...

Georgy Girl | Georgy is young, gregarious and fun - she is also large, self-confessedly ugly and desperate for love. Georgy bears her fate bravely as she alternates between playing the fool and humbli...

This Poison Will Remain | After three elderly men are bitten by spiders, everyone assumes that their deaths are tragic accidents. But at police headquarters in Paris, Inspector Adamsberg begins to sus...

Towards Mellbreak | After many generations, it is now Harold who runs Ard Farm. Out on the fells, he feels his father's presence, and there is hope that he, his grandmother and his Uncle Joe will be a...

See Under Love | Momik, the only child of two survivors, is brought up in Israel by a family seeking to ignore the past. No-one will explain to him what life was like 'Over There' or what the 'Nazi Be...

Diary of a Mad Old Man | At once hilarious and sad, Tanizaki's last novel - written during his final illness - echoes his own life. While recovering from a stroke, seventy-seven-year-old Utsugi turns ...

Collected Stories | Celebrated for her much-admired novels, including The Heat of the Day and The Death of the Heart, Bowen established herself in the front rank of the century's writers equally throu...

Babbitt | From the author of It Can't Happen Here, a satirical portrait of a town obsessed by capitalism and the 'values' of the marketplace BY THE AUTHOR OF IT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE Businessman George F....

The Streets | From the author of Half of the Human Race (Channel 4 TV Book Club) comes an intricate and thrilling tale of love and conspiracy in Victorian London. London, 1882. David Wildeblood, an id...

For Whom the Bell Tolls | 'The best fictional report of the Spanish Civil War that we possess' Anthony Burgess **AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT** 'The best fictional report of ...

Riders in the Chariot | A bold, visionary story of four intertwining lives from the Nobel prizewinning novelist With an introduction by David Malouf Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xa...

The Last September | Genteel life at 'the 'Big House' continues while the Irish War of Independence rages beyond the gates, but for how long? Read Elizabeth Bowen's accessible feminist take on the Iri...

A Bunch of Fives | Since the 1990 publication of her first collection, Four Bare Legs in a Bed, Helen Simpson has been hailed as one of the best short story writers at work in the world today. These w...

Motherhood | Enjoy Helen Simpson's sharply funny, humane take on the everyday joys and struggles of motherhood in this perfect Mother's Day gift. Welcome to motherhood - a land of aching fatigue, cons...

Dancing Ledge | 'What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the writing of an autobiography at forty... I had so little to do in the daylight hours, I stayed up late unbuttoning Levis...

The Enchanted Castle | 'If we were in a book it would be an enchanted castle - certain to be' When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend their entire summer at school they don't imagine they w...

To the North | The fourth novel by Elizabeth Bowen, described by the Guardian as 'One of the last century's greatest woman writers' Cecilia, capricious and unable to love, inches reluctantly towards a...

Lessons | When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended, young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at boarding school, his vulne...

Death of a Ghost | John Lafcadio’s ambition to be known as the greatest painter since Rembrandt was not to be thwarted by a matter as trifling as his own death. A set of twelve sealed paintings is the...

Spring | ames and Katherine meet at a wedding in London. It is January 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years, and James is a man with a varied past - entrepreneur, estate agent, film pr...

The Lonely Skier | It lies somewhere beneath the snow, high in the Dolomites: Nazi gold, tainted with the blood of murdered men. Only a few know its secrets, and one by one they come in search of it –...

Cider With Rosie | The evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside. The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside Cider with Rosie is a wonderfull...

Depths | October 1914: the destroyer Svea emerged from the Stockholm archipelago bearing south-south-east. On board was Lars Tobiasson-Svartman, a naval engineer charged with making depth soundings fo...

Dawn of the New Everything. A Journey Through Virtual Reality | Virtual reality has long been one of the dominant cliches of science fiction. Now virtual reality is a reality: from the startling beaut...

My Michael | One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael was a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and it has an enduring power to surprise and mesmerize. 1950s Jerusalem. ...

You're Not Listening. What You're Missing and Why It Matters | 'Brilliant' Chris Evans, Virgin Radio Breakfast Show When was the last time you listened to someone, or someone really listened to you? T...

Moody. The Hidden Power of Hormones | Hormones were something Amy Thomson, founder and CEO of leading women's health app and tech service Moody, never paid attention to, until one day her periods stop...

Starlight | Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of Highate with Mr Fisher, a mild but eccentric old man living...

J. A Novel | Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. They aren't sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they've been pushe...

Villain | A young woman is brutally murdered on a remote mountain road. A young construction worker, Yuichi, is on the run - but is he guilty? This is the dark heart of Japan; a world of seedy sex hot...

In Praise of Walking. The new science of how we walk and why it’s good for us | Walking upright on two feet is a uniquely human skill. It defines us as a species. It enabled us to walk out of Africa a...

Double Blind | Three lives collide, not one of them will emerge unchanged - the exhilarating new novel from the author of the Patrick Melrose series. When Olivia meets a new lover, Francis, just as sh...

Digging to America | Friday August 15th, 1997. Two tiny Korean babies are delivered to two very different Baltimore families. Every year, on the anniversary of 'Arrival Day' the two families celebrate...

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock | One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock finds one of his captains waiting eagerly on his doorstep. He has sold Jonah's ship for what appears to be a me...

The Courage to Care. Nurses, Families and Hope | Nurses have never been more important. We benefit from their expertise in our hospitals and beyond: in our schools, on our streets, in prisons, hospice...

Small Country | An international sensation, Small Country is a beautiful but harrowing tale of coming-of-age in the face of civil war. 'A luminous debut novel… Faye dramatizes the terrible nostalgia o...

The Long Weekend. Life in the English Country House Between the Wars | There is nothing quite as beautiful as an English country house in summer. And there has never been a summer quite like that Indi...

More Work for the Undertaker | Agatha Christie called her 'a shining light'. Have you discovered Margery Allingham, the 'true queen' of the classic murder mystery? In a masterpiece of storytelling, Ma...

Panther In The Basement | In the last years of British rule in Jerusalem, a lonely, bookish Israeli boy befriends a British soldier in this tale of friendship in the face of enmity. Jerusalem 1947. Br...

Fen | The Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the wild is always close at hand, ready to erupt. This is a place where...

Jane Eyre | Jane Eyre is the inspiring heroine of one of the best-loved British novels of all time. As an orphan, Jane's childhood is not an easy one but her independence and strength of character kee...

The Double | Watching a rented video, Tertuliano Maximo Afonso is shocked to notice that one of the actors is identical to him in every physical detail. He embarks on a secret quest to find his double...

Metamorphosis and Other Stories | One morning, Gregor Samsa wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. His family is understandably perturbed and he finds himself an outsider in his own...