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‘To the Lighthouse’ is Virginia Woolf’s fifth novel, and was the first book to win her a large public. The story of an English middle class family in the years leading up to the F...
Born a poor nomad in an unforgiving world, Chinggis (or Genghis) Khan transformed the 13th century, ultimately ruling an empire that would stretch from Korea to Crimea and Syria to Siberia. Much of...
A reclusive writer of detective stories, Oe Shundei, has gone missing, leaving behind a suspicious trail of blackmailing letters to a former lover. Another detective novelist, his rival, is the onl...
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...
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...
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.
...‘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 ...
‘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. ...