Kathrine Kressman TaylorA rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and...

Etgar KeretA birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in Mossad -- such...

Evelyn WaughLaced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously...

Jacopo StoppaIncludes Turner's works from National Gallery, London; National Maritime Museum (Greenwich), London; Tate Britain, London; University Museum, Liverpool; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; Museum...

Author: Thomas Hardy I’ve not always been what I am now’In a fit of drunken anger, Michael Henchard sells his wife and baby daughter for five guineas at a country...

Angela CarterBlack Venus (also published as Saints and Strangers), is an anthology of short fiction. Angela Carter takes real people and literary legends - most often women - who have...

Author: Isaac Bashevis SingerA collection of short stories by a miraculous writer who can chill the spine, gorge the senses, and enlighten the heart as he describes a people and...

Hermann Hesse   The Glass Bean Game is an ultra-aesthetic game which is plated by the scholars, creamed off in childgood and nurtured in elite schools, in the province of...

Bill Bryon   Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright.

Milan KunderaThis breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life, without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of...

David MaloufThe year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, Carney, an illiterate Irishman,...

Jeffrey Eugenides Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor...