Literature

Vladimir Nabokov Paperback 272 pages Pale Fire, a 999-line poem, is the final work of the celebrated - and recently murdered - American author, John Francis Shade. Here that poem is transcribed,...

Catherine Prasifka Paperback You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you spend hours in the chatroom. You don't understand why some of your onl...

Yomi Adegoke Paperback 384 pages ONLINE RUMOURS. REAL LIFE TROUBLE. Ola Olajide, a high-profile journalist, is marrying the love of her life in one month's time. Young, beautiful, successful �...

Margaret Atwood Hardback 336 pages Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known as the United States. She is placed in the household o...

F.Scott Fitzgerald Paperback 584 pages This Norton Critical Edition includes: The 1925 first American edition text of the novel. A full introduction, a note on the text and explanatory annotatio...

Liz Nugent Paperback 384 pages Sally Diamond cannot understand why what she did was so strange. She was only doing what her father told her to do, to put him out with the rubbish when he died. N...

Brigitte Reimann Series: Penguin Modern Classics Paperback 144 pages The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's chance ...

Alexander Pushkin Hardback 616 pages The archetypal Romantic, killed in a duel in 1837 at the age of 37, Alexander Pushkin was effectively the founder of modern Russian literature. Though famous...

Salman Rushdie Paperback 384 pages In the wake of an unimportant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history....

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...

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...

Stefan Zweig Paperback 464 pages The only novel written by one of the most popular writers of the twentieth centuryIn 1913, young second lieutenant Hofmiller discovers the terrible danger of pit...

Softback Kate Briggs 480 pages It's early morning and there's a whole new day ahead. How will it unfold? The baby will feed, hopefully she'll sleep; Helen looks out of the window. The Long Form...

Douglas Stuart Paperback 400 pages The extraordinary, powerful second novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and...

Paperback 352 pages Elsie Porter is an average twentysomething and yet what happens to her is anything but ordinary. On a rainy New Year's Day, she heads out to pick up a pizza for one. She isn...

Hanya Yanagihara Paperback 736 pages The No.1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of A LITTLE LIFE To Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different ver...

Hardback 308 pages Sherlock Holmes's observation to Dr Watson at the start of A Case of Identity is certainly borne out by the twelve short stories in this collection, characterised by the origina...

Hardback 272 pages I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo. Sylvia Plath's groundbreaking semi-autobiogr...

Jennette McCurdy Hardback 320 pages A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor-including eating disorders, addi...

by James Baldwin (Author) , Caryl Phillips (Introduction By) Paperback 176 pages One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'Baldwin's ground-breaking second novel, which established him a...

Paperback 528 pages 'I've done my damndest to rip a reader's nerves to rags, I don't want him satisfied.' Shocking and controversial when it was first published, The Grapes of Wrath is Steinbeck's...

Kazuo Ishiguro Paperback 320 pages Shortlisted for the Booker Prize England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Ye...