Ursula K Le Guin Ursula K. Le Guin’s magnificent work of imagination, a visionary, genre-crossing story about a future utopian community on the Northern California coast. A masterly, hypnotic and...

Iris Murdoch Jake, clever and lazy, makes a living out of writing translations and sponging off his friends. When he is kicked out of his latest lodgings he embarks on...

Charles Bukowski Low-life writer and unrepentant alcoholic Henry Chinaski was born to survive. After decades of slacking off at low-paying dead-end jobs, blowing his cash on booze and women, and...

Harper Lee From one of America’s most beloved authors, a posthumous collection of newly discovered short stories and previously published essays and magazine pieces, offering a fresh perspective on the...

William Shakespeare   All 37 Plays. All the 160 Sonnets and Poems. Over 450 Illustrations. 1024 Pages.William Shakespeare1564-1616PLAYSAll's Well That Ends WellAntony and CleopatraAs You Like ItComedy of ErrorsCoriolanusCymbelineHamletHenry IV,...

William Golding This is a one-volume edition of the sequence of three novels set in the early 19th century, about a sea voyage from England to Australia. "Rites of Passage"...

Natalia Ginzburg ‘If Ferrante is a friend, Ginzburg is a mentor.’ GuardianMichele is the beloved only son of a large, dysfunctional family in 1970s Rome. Headstrong and independent, he has disappeared...

Richard Wagner A superb new translation of the libretto to Wagner's Ring cycle'Smiling in sorrowI sing of love'The Ring of the Nibelung, Wagner's epic cycle of four musical dramas about primal envy,...

Diana Athill In England half a century ago, well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Some things are not to be spoken of; some are most...

Valerio Massimo Manfredi A huge international bestseller, Alexander: Child of a Dream is the first in Valerio Massimo Mandfredi's outstanding trilogy of brutal passion and grand adventure in Ancient Greece.Who...

John Updike On a spring day in Vermont, seventy-nine-year-old painter Hope Chafetz tells the story of her life to Kathryn, a young interviewer from New York. Questions send Hope back...

Marco Polo Marco Polo (1254-1329) has achieved an almost archetypal status as a traveller, and his Travels is one of the first great travel books of Western literature, outside the...