Jazzand blazes with an intensity more usually found in tragic poetry of the past.... Morrison's voice transcends colour and creed and she has become one of America's outstanding post-war writers'and GuardianJoe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of Cleopatra beauty products, erstwhile devoted...

-Makes Hannibal Lecter look like Mary Poppins… this is going to give me a serious book hangover'John Marrs, author of The OneIf only they knew the real truth. It should be my face on those front pages. My headlines. I did those things, not...

May be the most detailed, painstaking anatomy of desire that we are ever likely to see or need again... An ecstatic celebration of love and language'and Washington PostThe language we use when we are in love is not a language we speak. It is...

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.' Dramatic and powerful in its scope, Othello explores the perils of suspicion and jealousy and the ensuing breakdown of relationships and disaster that can arise...

OMG! Laura Jane Williams doesn't do anything by halves… Yet another LJW book that has gripped my heart in all the right places… so many twists and turns. Such character depth… magic! Wholeheartedly recommend.' Jessiscurrentlyreading, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐It's his first night in London. And her last…Ruby's...

One never tires of reading and re-reading his best works. Akutagawa was a born short-story writer' Haruki Murakami The quintessential writer of his era' David PeaceThese are short stories from an unparalleled icon of modern Japanese literature. Sublimely crafted and shot through with a...

Remarkable' - Colm Tóibín, author ofand BrooklynShortlisted for The Goldsmiths Prize and the James Tait Black Prize for FictionBook of the Year Selection in theand Guardian,and New York Times,and Spectator,and Hot Pressand andand The White ReviewInand A Shock, a clutch of more or less...

Song of Solomon…profoundly changed my life' Marlon JamesMacon Milkman' Dead was born shortly after a neighbourhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly.In 1930s America Macon...

Spellbinding' JJA Harwood An entertaining and dark read'and Stylist An absorbing novel'and Guardian Beautifully written' Elizabeth Chadwick Power is not something you are given. Power is something you take. When you are a woman, it is a little more difficult, that's all'1768. Charlotte, daughter...

Spellbinding' JJA Harwood An entertaining and dark read'and Stylist An absorbing novel'and Guardian Beautifully written' Elizabeth Chadwick Power is not something you are given. Power is something you take. When you are a woman, it is a little more difficult, that's all'1768. Charlotte, daughter...

Tender and engrossing, this romance will touch your heart and make you smile'and RACHEL HORE'You'll fall a lot in love withand A Little in Love. Secrets, romance, escapism - yes please!'and JULIET ASHTON'A warm, delightful joy of a book'and PATRICIA SCANLAN Fun, fresh and...

The prose . . . is so gloriously funny you can relish the book over and over again.'and The Timesand (five best British comic novels) If you haven't read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whiskey and ideally a rubber...

The supreme fabulist of modern man's cosmic predicament' John Updike The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic'and New York TimesThe essential stories of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most influential writersNo one has captured the modern experience,...

Unforgettable' RED - Memorable' OBSERVER - A family overflowing with secrets' LOUISE HARE - Impossible to put down' CHRIS WHITAKER - Searing' ELLE - A chilling literary thriller' GRAZIAFrom hot new talent, Ella King, comes an unforgettable story about a family gone bad ....

Warm, uplifting andamp; important…a very VERY special book' Marian Keyes Beautifully moving and uplifting' Cecelia AhernMeet Tom. Or Dr O'Grady, as he used to be called. When you pass him on the street, most people don't even give him a second glance. You see,...

Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary...

“A marvelous interweaving of poetry, scholarship, literary criticism and memoir: it is wise, welcoming, and a delight to read. There are poems here that are memorable in any context:and Qasida of 700,000 Years of Loveand one among those for me. I wish Agha Shahid...

“Belinda Huijuan Tang's debut novel is a beautifully drawn, sensitively rendered portrait of a man desperately searching for his father-and for reconnection to the past and people he once knew and loved. Both rich in historical detail and timeless in scope,and A Map for...

“Chivalry is a flower no less indigenous to the soil of Japan than cherry blossom are the opening words to Inazo Nitobe'sand Bushido: The Soul of Japan. It was 1900 and Inazo, a Japanese academic living in the USA, had been prompted to write...

“Funny, human, highly learned and literary, sexy, and filled with psychological nuances that remain unrivaled at the hands of any other psychological writer. -Andre Aciman A Penguin Classic A Sentimental Journey is a novel without a plot, a journey without a destination. It records...

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. As a young orphan, Jane Eyre is thrown upon the mercy of an aunt and cousins who are anything but merciful, and when they send...

“Just the thing for a cold winter's night between episodes. and -The Washington Post Book World“Fans of the show will undoubtedly enjoy the chance to read Jane's book in real life. and -Entertainment WeeklyIt's been a lifetime (and three seasons) in the making, but...

“My favorite historical novel . . . A superb re-creation of the Battle of Gettysburg, but its real importance is its insight into what the war was about, and what it meant. -James M. McPhersonIn the four most bloody and courageous days of our...

“Nothing quite like this has ever been published before, proclaimedand The Guardianand about the Neapolitan novels in 2014. Against the backdrop of a Naples that is as seductive as it is perilous and a world undergoing epochal change, Elena Ferrante tells the story of...

“Père Goriot can rightly be regarded as one of the greatest of Balzac's novels, writes Henry Reed of this masterful study of a father who sacrifices everything for his daughters. This novel marked the true beginning of Balzac's towering project La Comedie Humaine, his...

What is the true meaning of power? Are some simply born to it or can it be acquired like a skill? Does it always breed corruption and greed or can it be a force for good? From kings to prisoners and from battle-fields to...

“So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature ofand Les Miserablesand cannot fail to be of use, says Victor Hugo in the preface of his famous novel. Certainly,and Les Miserablesand is French history recounted through the personal stories of...

“We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things. Bram Stoker's classic horror novel tells the story of English lawyer Jonathan Harker. Travelling to Transylvania to meet his reclusive...

“We can finally read the work as Camus meant it to be read. Laura Marris's new translation ofand The Plagueand is, quite simply, the translation we need to have. -Los Angeles Review of BooksThe first new translationand ofand The Plagueand to be published in...

“When a girl leaves home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she rapidly assumes the cosmopolitan standard of virtue and becomes worse. With and Sister Carrie, and first published in 1900, Theodore...

Áróra returns to Iceland when her estranged sister goes missing, and her search leads to places she could never have imagined. A chilling, tense standalone thriller from one of Iceland's bestselling authors... _________________ Icelandic sisters Áróra and Ísafold live in different countries and aren't...

Aaliya Saleh lives alone in her Beirut apartment, surrounded by stockpiles of books. Godless, fatherless, childless, and divorced, Aaliya is her family's 'unnecessary appendage'. Every year, she translates a new favourite book into Arabic, then stows it away. The thirty-seven books that Aaliya has...

Abbie Wu is even more FRAZZLED as she embarks on an outdoor school trip and encounters new hazards of middle school.This is the third book inand aand New York Timesand bestselling graphic novel series that NPR'sand All Things Consideredand called "hilarious"!Abbie Wu thinks that...

About some novel:In this novel, Iftikhar Azam has very well predicted the possible situation in the near future. and The new situation that is going to arise in the near future and man is trying to conquer space and establish settlements there, this situation...

Absolutely brilliant... I devoured it in a few hours because it was impossible to put down... Be prepared for a rollercoaster of emotions... Had me laughing all the way through... Perfect.' Goodreads ReviewerIs this all there is?and I scraped the last dregs of Caramel...

Accessibly written by Boris Wiseman and beautifully illustrated by Judy Groves,and Introducing Levi-Straussand also explores the major contribution that Claude Levi-Strauss made to contemporary aesthetic history. His work on American Indian mythology provides a key insight into the way in which art itself comes...

Acclaimed translator Dick Davis breathes new life into the timeless works of three masters of fourteenth-century Persian literature.Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings...

While in the service of India's Nizam of Hyderbad, Marmaduke Pickthall converted to Islam, and, with the help of Muslim theologians and linguists, produced this English interpretation of the Holy Koran.

Adèle has a seemingly enviable life. She is a respected journalist, living in a flawless Paris apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of 'having it all', Adèle is bored. She begins to orchestrate her life around one-night...

Adapted by the Coen Brothers into an Academy Award winning film, No Country For Old Men is a dark and suspenseful novel from Cormac McCarthy, author of The Road.Llewelyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding...

Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, nine people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in."Thank the Lord we found you," a passenger...

Aelin Galathynius has given up her freedom for the sake of her people. Held captive by the Queen of the Fae and tortured for information, her only companions are a silent prisoner and her own mind. The image of her mother, her lover, her...

After a lonely boyhood, and the painful ordeal of his schooldays, Philip's yearning for adventure takes him to Germany and later Paris where he tries to make his mark as an artist before returning to London to study medicine. Here, a tortured and one-sided...

After failing to get into medical school, Ollie Cross takes a job as a paramedic in Harlem. Ashamed of his middle-class roots and eager to fit in, he adopts a tough-guy persona which carries him through the dark days on the streets- the shoot-outs,...

'After God, Shakespeare has created most' Alexandre DumasTwo sets of identical twins, separated at sea as babies, find themselves in the same city for the first time as adults. Soon, their friends mistake the twins for one another and bewilderment abounds. Joyful, mystical and...

After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan crosses the windswept Cornish moors to Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. There she finds Patience a changed woman, downtrodden by her domineering, vicious husband Joss Merlyn. The inn is a front for a...

After the publication of Outline, Transit and Kudos - in which Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction - this writer of uncommon brilliance returns with a series of essays that offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her life's work....

FROM THE WINNER OF THE BAILIE GIFFORD PRIZETHE INSTANTand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLER'Should be read by anyone who cares about justice, humanity and human rights' Elif Shafak'An essential account'and Sunday Times'Powerful and persuasive . . . superb' Abdulrazak Gurnah'An urgent reminder that Britain's colonial rule...

After the tragic death of his father, fourteen-year-old Benny Oh begins to hear voices. The voices belong to the things in his house and sound variously pleasant, angry or sad. Then his mother develops a hoarding problem, and the voices grow more clamorous. When...

After their father is mysteriously abducted by strangers, Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis move with their mother from their comfortable city home to 'Three Chimneys', a tiny cottage in the countryside, next to a railway station. Soon the children find enough to amuse themselves with...