Literature

Jenny Erpenbeck Paperback 304 pages Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Their

Jenny Hval Paperback 160 pages Jo is in a strange new country for university and having a more peculiar time than most. A house with no walls, a

Kurt Vonnegut Hardback 192 pages A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most funny, moving and brilliant novels of the twentieth century. 'A

David Nicholls Paperback 448 pages 15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their graduation. Tomorrow they must

Gabriel Garcia Marquez Paperback 368 pages Fifty-one years, nine months and four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic

Jorge Luis Borges Paperback 224 pages Borges' stories have a deceptively simple, almost laconic style. In maddeningly ingenious stories that pla

Madeleine Gray Paperback Hera is in her mid-twenties, which seems young to everyone except people in their mid-twenties. Since leaving school,

Joseph Conrad Paperback 112 pages 'Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often th

Abraham Verghese Paperback 736 pages Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water follows a family in southern India that suffers a

Sebastian Barry Paperback 272 pages Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overloo

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - DBC Pierre (Introduction By) Series: Canons Paperback 160 pages 'I am a sick person. I am a spiteful person. An unattrac

Lucas Rijneveld Paperback 288 pages I asked God if he please couldn't take my brother Matthies instead of my rabbit. 'Amen.' Ten-year-old Jas h

Stefan Zweig Paperback 304 pages ‘I have to tell you – you see, this is just about the strangest experience I have been through...’These

Virginia Woolf Paperback 112 pages 'But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction - what has that got to do with a room of one

George Orwell Paperback 272 pages Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against tot

Charles Bukowski Paperback 152 pages A book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Robert Crumb. Bukowski's

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 l

Virginia Woolf Paperback 384 pages

Tennessee Williams Paperback 160 pages This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Bess Rowen, Assistant Professor at Villanova Univ

Margaret Jull Costa Paperback 208 pages A riveting selection of short stories in Spanish alongside their English translations This new dual-langu

Heather Darwent Paperback 384 pages Image for The Things We Do To Our Friends : A Sunday Times bestselling deliciously dark, intoxicating, compu

William Golding Paperback 304 pages First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is now recognised as a classic, one of the most celebrated and wi

Andrew O'Hagan Paperback 304 pages Everyone has a Tully Dawson: the friend who defines your life. In the summer of 1986, James and Tully ignite

Ben Lerner Paperback 192 pages A hilarious, intelligent cult classic, from one of the most celebrated contemporary novelists. Adam Gordon is a br