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When the van door slammed on Offred’s future at the end of ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’ readers had no way of telling what lay ahead. With ‘The Testaments,’ the wait i...
‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family&#...
We are here to remember what happened and to declare solemnly that ‘they’ must never do it again. But who are ‘they’? This is a selection of three thought-provoking essays o...
Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, this book documents his ‘first contact with poverty’: sleeping in bug-infested hostels, working as a dishwasher in Paris, su...
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers ...
A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as illusory, hypocritical, and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness they call ‘objectivity’. When the mothe...
Okada is apparently a happy man – his domestic life seems familiar and comfortable, but admittedly he has just quit his job, the cat has disappeared and a strange woman is bothering him with ...
He is a maths professor with a peculiar problem – ever since a head injury 17 years ago, he has lived with only 80 minutes of short-term memory. She is a housekeeper with a ten-year-old son, ...
The much-anticipated new novel from the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of ‘1Q84’ and ‘Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage’, ‘Killing Co...
Soldier, criminal, militant, hooligan, revolutionary: these labels Emmeline Pankhurst took up and wore proudly in her long struggle for women’s suffrage. This shortened edition of her autobio...
‘I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.’ Across seven tales, H...
The Republic of Gilead allows Offred only one function – to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But e...
‘The Camomile Lawn’ presents a vivid and lively picture of wartime London and Cornwall as seen through the eyes of five cousins.
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At the heart of Joseph Heller’s bestselling novel is a satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it. It is the tale of Captain Yoss...
An affectionate look at the men, women, technology and achievements of the early days of America’s manned space program, from the supersonic testing in the late 1940s to the initial run of ma...
The narrator of this tale, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, an undesirable public house, and finds the main characters of his drama waiting to begin.
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John Betjeman was not only one of the best-loved English poets, but also one of the best-loved Englishmen of the 20th century. Coming Home gathers a selection from over four decades of his writings...
Titus Groan, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born. His world will be predetermined by complex rituals, the origins of which are lost in time; it will be peopled by the dark characters who i...