The Essential Pritchett
V.S. Pritchett (1900 - 1997) was one of the most subtle, potent, and best-loved of modern British writers, an unparalleled storyteller and biographer. This engrossing and lively volume, edited by his son, is a tribute to a lifetime of writing. He looks back to his childhood and youth in extracts from his autobiographies A Cab At The Door and Midnight...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Aerodrome
A haunting political allegory...a cracking beach read - The Times With an introduction by Michael Moorcock A model of efficiency and order, the aerodrome stands on the hill looking down on the village below. Roy, coming of age in the messy, violent and adulterous world of the villagers, is simultaneously attracted and repelled by this strange place and by the...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
A Scottish classic, a world classic - Ian Rankin, Observer Robert is a difficult and disturbed young man. He comes from a troubled family background and turns to his Calvinist faith for solace but finds it hard to get along with other people, particularly his brother and his dissolute father. After he falls in with the mysterious and charming Gil-Martin,...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowTrustee from the Toolroom
A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. As seen on BBC Two's Between the Covers 'An incredible adventure story...a book that will live with you forever' Richard Osman (on BBC Two's Between the Covers). Discover a classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. Keith Stewart...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowWhat Happened to the Corbetts
A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it, he describes the devastation that results from an aerial bomb attack on Southampton that destroys the city's infrastructure and leaves the inhabitants at the mercy of cholera and...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Sea-Hawk
A rousing story of pirate adventure, hair-raising duels and romance. With an introduction by Ben Kane Oliver Tressilian, a Cornish gentleman, is blessed with 'youth, wealth, and good digestion'. He is betrayed by his half-brother and becomes a renegade and Barbary corsair, winning the title of Sakr-el-Bahr - hawk of the sea. This is the thrilling, full-blooded adventure of how...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Far Country
A dramatic romance set in the remote wilds of the Australian outback. A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with the country and with Carl, a doctor and Czech refugee. Brought together through dramatic encounters and strange twists of fate, their relationship hangs in the balance...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowHere Be Dragons
The atmosphere of the cheap cafes...is subtly caught. Packed tight with wit and understanding, it lights the London Scene - Scotsman When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the freedom of the big city. Naive and only nineteen, she becomes embroiled with the wayward John Gaunt...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowNo Highway
Excitement and suspense 18,000 feet over the Atlantic! Read this classic uplifting, moving, and heartwarming story about life in the face of the Cold War. Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous aircraft engineer whose eccentric interests in quantum mechanics and spiritualism are frowned upon in aviation circles. But when a passenger plane crashes in unexplained circumstances, Honey must convince his...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowIt's A Battlefield
Time remarked, "No serious writer of this century has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than did Graham Greene." In It's A Battlefield, Drover, a Communist bus driver, finds himself in prison, sentenced to death for killing a policeman during a riot at Hyde Park Corner. This gripping narrative explores the ensuing battle for a reprieve, involving a...Paperback$3600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThis Quiet Dust
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Sophie’s Choice explores a range of moral, political, historical and literary subjects in this impressive collection of essays, threaded with personal memoirs. In This Quiet Dust, the first book of non-fiction by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lie Down in Darkness and Sophie’s Choice, William Styron addresses great moral issues with passion and precision. His...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowSeducers in Ecuador & The Heir
Two exquisite novellas which confirm Sackville-West's gift as a novelist. Seducers in Ecuador is the story of Arthur Lomax, every bit the English gentleman in his white ducks and solar topee, enjoying the pleasures of an Egyptian cruise. But with the addition of a pair of blue spectacles to the outfit, Lomax's entire world changes – to alarming, deadly effect....Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThen And Now
Stunningly written and cleverly done, Maugham masters the enthralling and shocking world of Machiavelli. Maugham found a parallel to the turmoil of our own times in the duplicity, intrigue and sensuality of the Italian Renaissance. Then and Now enters the world of Machiavelli, and covers three important months in the career of that crafty politician, worldly seducer and high priest...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Abortion
A reclusive young man works in a San Francisco library for unpublishable books. Life's losers, an astonishing number of whom seem to be writers, can bring their manuscripts to the library, where they will be welcomed, registered, and shelved. They will not be read, but they will be cherished. In comes Vida, with her manuscript. Her book is about her...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Fortunes of Captain Blood
Yet more thrilling adventures of the bold and bolshy Captain Blood. Ready of wit and skilled of blade, the elegant surgeon-buccaneer Captain Blood is ever a jump ahead of his foes. Time and again, he falls headlong into deep peril, and his own motley crew are happy to sail to hell and back at his command. Yet when everything is...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Hotel
The first novel from one of the twentieth century's most admired and stylish writers. It's the balmy days of the 1920s and where could be more pleasant for a holiday than a hotel on the Italian Riviera? Filled with prosperous English visitors, The Hotel offers a closed world of wealth and comfort. It also provides the stage for the display...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowReturn I Dare Not
She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed – Anita Brookner Return I Dare Not presents Hugo Potts, a successful London playwright enjoying his moment of notoriety. Adored by critics and pursued by women, he's the darling of the literary scene. However, his public persona is exactly...Paperback$3900Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowLandfall
A first-class adventure story of love, mystery, and nail-biting suspense, for fans of classic wartime romance. Landfall follows Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot who mistakenly sinks a British submarine. As a result, he is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting to test an experimental new bomb—a dangerous mission far away from the girl he loves. While Jerry risks...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowSlide Rule
The autobiography of the classic author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. Nevil Shute was a power and a pioneer in the world of flying long before he began to write the stories that made him a bestselling novelist. This autobiography charts Shute's path from childhood to his career as a gifted aeronautical engineer working at the...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowBeyond the Black Stump
A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. If somewhere is 'beyond the black stump' it means it is in the deepest darkest wilds of the Australian outback. This is the sun-baked setting for Nevil Shute's novel of a romance that is tested by the differences between two young people's home lives. Stanton...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowYou Can't Do Both
Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama that takes him from school to Oxford. With him, we live through all the pangs of a pre-war adolescence in South London, and on through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, seduction, and commitment. You Can't Do Both is classic Amis—brilliantly funny,...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowStories for Halloween
A selection of spine-chilling tales by the Godfather of Goth. The midnight hour approaches. You lie in bed and try to sleep, but there is the howling of the wind outside, the creak of a floorboard, the scream of a cat, the ticking clock... Your heart beats, your skin crawls, and despite yourself you reach for this book and enter...Paperback$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Chequer Board
A novel about four different men learning how to live with their past lives, and face their futures. John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search of three very different men he met briefly during the war—an snobbish British pilot, a...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Charmers
'Gibbons was an acute and witty observer, and her dissection of the British class system is spot-on' - Mail on Sunday Thrown out of her long-established office job, Miss Christine Smith takes up a new role as housekeeper for a group of middle-aged artists. Charmed by a previous mystical experience, her spirituality is nurtured further by the tenants, who seem...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowMarazan
A classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach. After Philip Stenning is involved in a near-fatal plane crash, he feels he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who rescued him. However, his mysterious saviour is an escaped convict, and his determination to help him leads Stenning into a tense and dramatic...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Alteration
Of all the choristers at the Cathedral Basilica of St George, he is the angel—the one whose voice could only have been made in heaven. In every other respect, Hubert is utterly ordinary: a nice, rather timid ten-year-old boy. The year is 1976, but by bold Amisian sleight-of-hand, the England of The Alteration has become a disconcerting, quasi-medieval land in...Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowRuined City
"I believe that that's the one thing most worth doing in this modern world," he said quietly. "To create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of" Ruined City Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by the closure of its shipyard. Moved by...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowChance Acquaintances and Julie De Carneilhan
'A perpetual feast to the reader. Her prose is rich, flawless, intricate, audacious and utterly beautiful' - Raymond Mortimer Set in pre-war Paris, Julie de Carneilhan tells of the complex relationship between the proud but impoverished Julie and her former husband, the Comte d'Espivant, who has remarried a wealthy widow. Julie de Carneilhan was the last full-length novel Colette was...Paperback$3700Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowTo The North
The fourth novel by Elizabeth Bowen, described by the Guardian as 'One of the last century's greatest woman writers'. Cecilia, capricious and unable to love, inches reluctantly towards a second marriage to the kind, passionless Julian Tower. Meanwhile, her sister-in-law, Emmeline, is surprised to find the calm tenor of her life disturbed by her attraction to the predatory Mark Linkwater....Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowMaigret
A new translation of this gripping novel, originally intended as the last in the Maigret series, which sees the inspector brought out of his peaceful retirement. Maigret shrugged his shoulders, buried his hands in his pockets and went off without answering. He had just spent one of the most wretched days in his life. For hours, in his corner, he...Paperback$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Diary of a Nobody
Penguin Classics relaunch The Diary of a Nobody began as a serial in Punch and the book which followed in 1892 has never been out of print. The Grossmith brothers not only created an immortal comic character but produced a clever satire of their society. Mr Pooter is an office clerk and upright family man in a dull 1880s suburb....Paperback$2400Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowFrankenstein
A beautiful new edition of Mary Shelley's Gothic horror classic, Frankenstein Includes a cultural history of Frankenstein’s monster by Jeanette Winterson Navigating the Arctic, the captain of a ship rescues a man wandering near death across the ice caps. How the man got there reveals itself in a story of ambition, murder, and revenge. As a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein...Paperback$1699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Little Mermaid and Other Fairy Tales
Hans Christian Andersen is one of the world's most popular storytellers, and his fairy tales are among the best-loved works of literature. Readers the world over know his poignant tale of "The Little Mermaid," who sacrifices everything for love, and "Thumbelina," the miniscule maiden who captures the heart of many members of the animal kingdom. Several of Andersen's stories are...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowOrlando
The fictional portrait of Woolf's close friend and lover Vita Sackville-West, the hero Orlando is a young nobleman in Elizabethan England, a dreamy and romantic youth who wakes up one day to find himself transformed, astonishingly, into a woman. Over the span of three centuries, Orlando will fall in love many times and rub shoulders with the great artists and...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowLes Misérables
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo is a tale of injustice, heroism, and love that follows the fortunes of Jean Valjean, an escaped convict determined to put his criminal past behind him. Valjean's attempts to become a respected member of the community are constantly under threat. His journey is plagued by his own conscience, especially when an innocent man is mistakenly...Paperback$2799Elsewhere:$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowGrimm's Fairy Tales
Grimm's Fairy Tales collects more than forty of the best-known fairy tales set down by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Among them are timeless stories such as "Little Red Riding Hood," "Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs," "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Rapunzel," "Rumpelstiltskin," and "Tom Thumb." In these wonderfully entertaining stories, frogs transform into handsome...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowGreat Expectations
Pip is a poor orphan, a boy with no expectations, being raised by his unkind sister and her husband in a small home on the marshes of Kent. But when Pip meets the bizarre Miss Havisham and her beautiful ward, Estella, he starts to yearn for a life as a gentleman. However, Pip will discover that wealth and honesty do...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Judge's House
Exiled from Paris, Maigret discovers some disturbing secrets in a sleepy coastal town. A short, sprightly man appeared in the doorway, looked left and right, and went back into the passage. A moment later, the improbable happened. The little man reappeared, bent over, clinging to a long mass that he now started dragging through the mud. It must have been...Paperback$2499Elsewhere:$2600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowUncle Tom's Cabin
When Harriet Beecher Stowe was introduced to Abraham Lincoln in 1862, the president reportedly said, "So this is the little woman who made this great war." Apocryphal or not, the words were apt. Uncle Tom's Cabin portrayal of the evils of institutionalized slavery galvanized the American public to new abolitionist heights and today remains a crucial literary artifact in a...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Snow Ghost
A spine-tingling collection of some of Japan's scariest yet still compelling classic ghost stories Enter the haunted world of Ancient Japan in this spine-tingling collection of ghostly tales told and retold across the centuries. From Goblin infested caves and haunted Tombs, to vengeful spirits and strange, sinister happenings, Ancient Japan was a country and culture that lived with between realms-...Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowNorthanger Abbey
It is no tragedy that seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is not cut out to be the heroine of one of the Gothic novels she reads so avidly with her new friend Isabella Thorpe. What may lead to tragedy on her first visit to the glamorous resort town of Bath, however, are Catherines overactive imagination and her inability to read other people.Catherine...Paperback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A chilling exploration of humanity’s capacity for evil and the dark side of thoughtless curiosity Exploring timeless themes of the duality of human nature, the tension between good and evil, and the consequences of tampering with the natural order, the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde remains one of the enduring classics of the gothic horror genre. This...Hardback$2900Elsewhere:$3599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Picture of Dorian Gray
A timeless story of beauty, hedonism, and morality A new addition to the widely read Capstone Classics series, The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Gothic Classic, by Oscar Wilde, explores the brutal consequences of hedonism, loose morals, and an obsessive focus on beauty and pleasure. Wilde’s novel follows a young man, Dorian Gray, who becomes infatuated with his own beauty...Hardback$2900Elsewhere:$3599Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowAdventures of Huckleberry Finn (Barnes & Noble Flexibound Classics)
By turns hilarious and heartwarming, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is considered Mark Twain's masterpiece. Desperate to escape his abusive father and the constraints of civilisation, young Huck Finn fakes his death and, with his slave friend Jim, embarks on a vagabond life rafting down the Mississippi. Together, Huck and Jim forge a bond that protects them from the prejudices...Other book format$7500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowWuthering Heights
Cherish Emily Brontë's beloved classic for generations with this heirloom edition.A timeless tale of haunting and passionate love and obsession, Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is one of the most enduring classics in English literature. Originally published in 1847, the novel follows the tragic bond between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw-a relationship that defies social conventions and even death itself. A powerful...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Woman in White
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the great Victorian mystery novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the great Victorian mystery novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet...Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Trial
Through tight dialogue and absurd settings Franz Kafka creates a maze-like prose to mimic the bureaucracy of early twentieth-century Germany, trapping his protagonist in an unlawful conviction that alters the path of his life. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library, a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket-sized classics with gold-foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Last of the Wine
A VIVID, SWEEPING SAGA OF QUEER LOVE AND POLITICS IN ANCIENT GREECE, FROM THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION'Renault's eye for intimacy is amazing' DOUGLAS STUART'Arresting and beautiful and moving . . . decades ahead of its time' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSYour love made me. Do not take it away; for without love I am a temple forsaken by its god...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Enchanted April
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the greatest holiday novel ever written, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. A beautiful deluxe gift edition of the greatest holiday novel ever written, with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed...Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowSonnets
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Shakespeare's immortal poems with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Shakespeare's immortal poems with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Love sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare's...Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowOliver Twist
A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's unforgettable novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Dickens's unforgettable novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. Oliver is an orphan living on the dangerous London streets with no...Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowMeditations
Delve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete collection of Meditationswith an introduction by Pierre Baumann. The personal writings of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from 161 to 180 AD, not only reflect on the philosophical idea of Stoicism, but also on this powerful man's day-to-day life and issues that still plague us all. Considered to be one...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowAnimal Farm
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them – masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball –...Paperback$2999Elsewhere:$3499Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowWuthering Heights
Emerald Fennell presents Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë’s gothic masterpiece of unbridled passion, obsession, and revenge.Set against the desolate beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the all-consuming love between Catherine Earnshaw and the foundling Heathcliff has captivated readers for centuries. When forces of class and society tear them apart, Heathcliff embarks on a bitter quest for vengeance that threatens to destroy two...Paperback$3499Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowA Class Apart
SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH CAP AWARDS 2023 'A beautifully written historical novel with characters who linger long after the last page is turned.' - Hazel Gaynor, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home Society said they shouldn't fall in love... It's 1828, and Ireland is in turmoil as Irish tenants protest against their upper-class English landlords....Paperback$4800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Inimitable Jeeves
"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun..." "He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more..." "She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say when." Typical....Hardback$5000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Samurai Detectives: Volume 2
Return to the world of The Samurai Detectives, the multi-million copy bestselling series of thrilling adventure and inscrutable mystery. In the months since their last perilous quest, a fragile calm has settled over Edo. Daijiro dedicates his days to training the first pupil of his quiet riverside dojo, while his father Kohei—a famed swordsman whose name still inspires awe—drifts through...Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Silmarillion
The forerunner to The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion fills in the background which lies behind the more popular work, and gives the earlier history of Middle-earth, introducing some of the key characters. The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s World. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in...Paperback$4700Elsewhere:$5999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Port of London Murders
When the San Angelo drifts into port in the Pool of London, telephones begin to ring across the capital and an intricate series of events is set in motion. Beset by dreadful storms in the Bay of Biscay, the ship, along with the 'mixed cargo' it carries, is late. Unaware of the machinations of avaricious importers, wayward captains and unscrupulous...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowMiddlemarch
The most ambitious narrative of nineteenth-century realism, Middlemarch tells the story of an entire town in the years leading up to the Reform Bill of 1832, a time when modern methods were starting to challenge old orthodoxies. Eliot’s sophisticated and acute characterization gives rich expression to every nuance of feeling, and vividly brings to life the town’s inhabitants – including...Paperback$4200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowIce
A strange and compelling classic of dystopian and climate fiction, one that with foreboding and deep compassion maps the psyche and the terrain of dislocation - Jeff VanderMeer One might become convinced that Kavan had seen the future - New Yorker Ice will soon cover the entire globe. As the glacial tide creeps forward, society breaks down. Hurtling through the...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowHer Side of the Story
'A revolutionary thriller, bildungsroman and cry of feminist frustration... Actual-work-of-genius territory' Sunday Times A captivating feminist classic about a woman's struggle for independence in fascist Italy, from the author of Forbidden Notebook - with an afterword by Elena Ferrante Alessandra has always wanted more than life offered her. Growing up in a crowded apartment block in 1930s Rome, she watches...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowGreen for Danger
It is 1942, and struggling up the hill to the new military hospital, Heron's Park, Kent, postman Higgins has no idea that the sender of one of the seven letters of application he is delivering will turn out to be a murderer in a year's time. When Higgins is brought in following injuries from a bombing raid in 1943, his...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowGoose of Hermogenes
An extraordinary book... Part Gothic fantasy, part emblematic progress through a dream world... It has a gripping hallucinogenic clarity - Snoo Wilson A trancelike feminist fable by Britain's foremost surrealist painter Calcination. Putrefaction. Exaltation. Trapped on an enchanted island ruled by her uncle, a young woman must pass through the stages of alchemical transformation to escape. He wants to conquer...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowTravels with a Writing Brush
A rich and exquisite anthology that illuminates Japanese travel over a thousand years Shortlisted for the NSW Translation Prize Discover a realm of travel writing undreamed of in the West - a richly literary tradition extending through a thousand years and more, whose individual works together weave a dense and beautiful brocade of repeated patterns and motifs, tones and textures....Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowMeditations
A stunning new edition of the classic Stoic text. Contained in the timeless volume Meditations, the personal writings of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who ruled from 161 to 180 CE, are more relevant today than ever. Reflecting the core tenets of Stoicism, this collection of wisdom is a must-have for anyone interested in classical literature, philosophy, self-improvement, and mindfulness....Hardback$5200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Discover Jules Verne's epic underwater adventure with this gorgeous collectible edition of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Professor Aronnax, a marine biologist, joins harpoonist Ned Land in search of a mysterious sea creature in the open ocean, only to discover that the beast is actually a submarine piloted by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. They are taken captive, thus beginning...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Sun Also Rises: Deluxe Illustrated Edition
New illustrations by Tim Foley and a new foreword by author Robert Wheeler catapult this timeless classic by Ernest Hemingway into the twenty-first century with vigour. For nearly a century, The Sun Also Rises has endured as one of Hemingway's masterworks and is widely regarded as a prime example of the great American writer's pioneering style and form. His first...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Spring Begins
She knew now, with a sense of deep tranquil certainty, that terror and injury could not spring from love of this kind, no matter what Nurse said. But she could not put all this into words. Set over the course of a summer, The Spring Begins follows the autonomous awakenings of three women at various stages of life and at...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Secret Garden
This illustrated heirloom edition brings the classic tale to life for new generations. One of the most beloved stories in children's literature, The Secret Garden follows the story of Mary Lennox, raised by her British parents in colonial India. When an earthquake makes her an orphan, she is sent to England to live at Misselthwaite Manor with the strange, reclusive...Hardback$2999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Loft
A woman is unnerved when a sinister package arrives in the post—containing her old diary entries. Strange and gripping, this is the unmistakable work of Marlen Haushofer, mistress of sustained dread and author of the cult classic, The Wall. An Austrian housewife sits in her loft intent on her drawings of birds and insects. The loft is a retreat where...Hardback$2800Elsewhere:$3800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov is a classic that only gets more timely with the ages. In its account of the murder trial of Fyodor Karamazov, it was the true-crime phenomenon of its day; in its study of how his three archetypally different sons butt heads and come under scrutiny in the wake of his death, it calls to mind any number...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Hobbit
Deluxe slipcased hardback edition of The Hobbit, illustrated throughout by acclaimed Tolkien artist, Alan Lee. Features exclusive new paintings and black & white designs appearing for the very first time, together with a removable art card and two foldout maps. Whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in his hobbit-hole in Bag End by Gandalf the wizard and a band...Hardback$24500Elsewhere:$28500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowWuthering Heights
Emily Bronte's classic novel with cover artwork from Emerald Fennell's major new film starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi 'Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my...Paperback$2200Elsewhere:$2800Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Haunting Season
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'You won't find a more thrilling winter read this year, or a better line up of writers who have mastered the gothic and ghostly.' SARA COLLINS, Costa Award-winning author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton Featuring new and original tales from: Bridget Collins Sunday Times bestselling author of The Binding | Imogen Hermes Gowar Sunday...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowDracula
Sink your teeth into the original horror classic—Bram Stoker’s timeless gothic tale which introduced one of the most terrifying and mesmerising legends in literature: Dracula the Vampire. Originally published in 1897, Dracula is one of the most enduring and influential works of literature ever written, spawning countless adaptations and reimaginings from every generation of readers. Stoker’s epistolary novel follows young...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$2699Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowTreasure Island
Little treasures, the FLAME TREE COLLECTABLE CLASSICS are chosen to create a delightful and timeless home library. Each stunning, gift edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers, and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. The very name of Robert Louis Stevenson is synonymous with...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Wind in The Willows
A stunning new edition with deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers, and gilded edges. The unabridged text is accompanied by a Glossary of Victorian and Literary terms produced for the modern reader. Kenneth Grahame's treasured and perennially popular The Wind in the Willows follows the adventures of Mole, Rat, Toad, and Badger as they spend their time 'simply messing...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrowThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall
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One of the world's most popular books is now available in a glorious gift edition. Written originally as European societies became enthralled by the idea of travel and exploration, The Swiss Family Robinson has become a timeless classic, read by every generation since then. This stunning new edition features deluxe cover treatments, ribbon markers, luxury endpapers, and gilded edges. The...Hardback$1999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips tomorrow