Literature

SoftbackAyi Kwei Armah The central story in this book tells of an upright man resisting the temptations of easy bribes and easy satisfactions and winn

SoftbackChinua Achebe Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for

SoftbackChinua Achebe Ezeulu, headstrong chief priest of the god Ulu, is worshipped by the six villages of Umuaro. But he is beginning to find his aut

SoftbackMikhail Bulgakov Professor Persikov, an eccentric zoologist, stumbles upon a new light ray that accelerates growth and reproduction rates in l

Deborah Levy Paperback 208 pages In 1988, Saul Adler is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. Apparently fine, he gets up and poses for a photograph

Paperback No food, no water, no government, no obligation, no order. Discover a chillingly powerful and prescient dystopian vision from one of Europe'

Paperback You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed... In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nad

Paperback Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World in 101/2 Chapters presents a surprising an

Paperback Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl-less sixth form togeth

Paperback An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the

Paperback Would you rather love the more, and suffer the more; or love the less, and suffer the less? That is, I think, finally, the only real questio

Paperback Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is place

Paperback The landmark novel of the Sixties - a powerful account of a woman searching for her personal, political and professional identity while faci

PaperbackShaun Bythell Love, Nina meets Black Books: a wry and hilarious account of life in Scotland's biggest second-hand bookshop and the band of e