Literature

Abraham Verghese Paperback 736 pages Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least...

George Orwell - Robert Colls (Introduction By) Series: Penguin Modern Classics Paperback 144 pages When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the...

Gabrielle Zevin Paperback 304 pages This is the story of five women . . . Meet Rachel Grossman. She'll stop at nothing to protect her daughter, Aviva, even if it ends up costing her everythi...

George Orwell Paperback 272 pages Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I und...

Virginia Woolf Paperback 256 pages As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court...

Gabrielle Zevin Paperback 320 pages A.J. Fikry, the grumpy owner of Island Books, is going through a hard time: his bookshop is failing, he has lost his beloved wife, and his prized possession - ...

C.E. McGill Paperback 400 pages Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her great uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic but she doesn't know why or how......

William Shakespeare Paperback 384 pages This Norton Critical Edition includes: * The Second Quarto text, edited by Robert S. Miola and accompanied by his footnotes, headnotes, and introductory ma...

Sophocles Paperback 208 pages This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's superb translation of Sophocles' best-known play, accompanied by her engaging introduction, translator's note a...

Jennifer Saint Paperback 384 pages hen a daughter is born to the King of Arcadia, she brings only disappointment. Left exposed on a mountainside, the defenceless infant Atalanta, is left to the ...

Jean-Paul Sartre Paperback 240 pages Jean-Paul Sartre's first published novel, Nausea is both an extended essay on existentialist ideals, and a profound fictional exploration of a man struggling...

Ben Lerner Paperback 192 pages A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet...

Anat Levit Paperback 144 pages Anat Levit never considered herself a cat lover, but when her life was thrown into upheaval, she found herself adopting one cat at the suggestion of her daughters,...

Anthony Doerr Paperback 592 pages Fifteenth-century Constantinople. Present day Idaho. The future, and humanity's last hope. Across time and space, five young dreamers are bound by a single a...

Paperback 752 pages When four graduates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is ...

Hisashi Kashiwai Paperback The Kamogawa Food Detectives, translated from Japanese by Jesse Kirkwood, is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese sleuthing series for fans of Bef...

Madeline Miller Hardback 352 pages Woman. Witch. Myth. Mortal. Outcast. Lover. Destroyer. Survivor. CIRCE. In the house of Helios, god of the sun and mightiest of the Titans, a daughter...

Jonathan Coe Paperback 368 pages From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true portrait of Britain told through four ...

Claire Keegan Hardback 64 pages After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the bus home. There, his mind agitates over a woman named Sabine w...

George Orwell Softback 368 pages Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past'Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Wi...

John Boyne Paperback 384 pages From the author of the globally bestselling, multi-million-copy classic, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, comes its astonishing and powerful sequel. Gretel Fernsby ...

Gabrielle Zevin Paperback 496 pages This is the story of Sam and Sadie. It's not a romance, but it is about love. When Sam catches sight of Sadie at a crowded train station one winter morning he ...

Truman Capote Paperback 352 pages Considered by many to be the first work of the true crime genre, this ground-breaking book reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family from information provid...

Ian McEwan Paperback 496 pages 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...