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After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man’s death, he begi...
It is 1941. British Command has surrendered to the Nazis. Churchill has been executed, the King is in the Tower and the SS are in Whitehall. For nine months Britain has been occupied and it’s...
Written midway between ‘Brave New World’ and ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’, as the terrible events of the Second World War were unfolding, Kallocain depicts a totalitarian ‘W...
On a cruise ship bound for Buenos Aires, a wealthy passenger challenges the world chess champion to a match. He agrees, but only on one condition – that the stakes are suitably high. Soon, th...
Published in 1899, ‘The Awakening’ ignited a firestorm of controversy. Reviewers criticized the book for its tacit endorsement of adultery, its frank depiction of a woman’s sexual...
Filled with rich description and luxurious beauty, these ten tales of loss and longing from one of Japan’s greatest writers show the pull between duty and desire, ecstasy and death: a mother ...
In ‘Babylon Revisited’ a man goes to Paris to gain custody of his daughter, but his plans go disasterously awry. In ‘The Cut-Glass Bowl’ a wedding present becomes a curse fo...
When a small-time crook is murdered on the Mediterranean island of Porquerolles it transpires he had fervently declared his friendship with Maigret beforehand. The famous French detective, with a S...
Addressing a chance acquaintance in an Amsterdam bar, Jean-Baptiste Clamence remarks that Amsterdam’s concentric circles resemble the circles of hell. Clamence, a successful barrister realise...
In some of these stories shadowy people pass through, cooped up by life, mangled by it, with nowhere to escape to. Their dreams lie stifled, smothered by routine and repetition, and frustrations lu...
This eclectic, moving and wonderfully enjoyable collection is the essential introduction to Korean literature. Journeying through Korea’s dramatic twentieth century, from the Japanese occupat...
Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrived in Paris from the country to stay with her female-impersonator uncle, Gabriel. All she really wants to do is ride the Metro, but finding it shut because of a stri...
In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Stood in the coast’s wind and cold, the police see nothing to investigate: the flush of the co...
A global anthology of feminist writers, edited and introduced by a major new essay by Hannah Dawson. It brings together an unprecedented line-up of the movement. It unfurls the diverse and often co...
‘Dream Story’ is an erotic novel that tells how, through a simple sexual admission, a husband and wife are driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge.
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‘A Spy in the House of Love’ expresses Nin’s individual vision of feminine sexuality with a ferocious dramatic force. Through Sabrina’s affairs with four men, she lays bare ...
‘White Nights’ comprises a poignant tale of love and loneliness from one of Russia’s foremost writers.
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‘Shooting an Elephant’ is Orwell’s searing and painfully honest account of his experience as a police officer in imperial Burma; killing an escaped elephant in front of a crowd &#...
Introducing ‘Little Clothbound Classics’: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Corali...
Katherine Mansfield’s perceptive and resonant writing helped to define the modern short story, observing apparently trivial incidents to create quietly devastating revelations of inner lives....
1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed. For Elisabeth – a young painter – the GDR is her generation’s chance to build a glorious, egalitarian socialist future. ...
Laurence Sterne’s great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth...
In the late 1960s, Andy Warhol set out to turn an ordinary book into a piece of pop art. He said that he wanted to create a ‘bad’ novel because doing something the wrong way always open...
O. Henry is one of the most popular American writers of the twentieth century and a true master of the short story. This selection of tales ranges from Christmas in New York to the cattle-lands of ...
Hoffmann’s classic Christmas fairy tale, immortalised by Tchaikovsky’s ballet, is brought to life. On Christmas Eve, Fritz and Marie excitedly await the arrival of Godfather Drosselmeie...