Marcel Detienne Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility myth of...

Doris Lessing In this illuminating, moving memoir Doris Lessing, the Nobel laureate, gives us a tale of two halves, of fiction and memory. She revisits her parents' lives as they...

Thomas Keneally In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker, and a...

PG Wodehouse  Gussie Fink-Nottle's knowledge of the common newt is unparalleled. Drop him in a pond of newts and his behaviour will be exemplary, but introduce him to a girl...

Iris Murdoch When Charles Arrowby retires from his glittering career in the London theatre, he buys a remote house on the rocks by the sea. He hopes to escape from...

MJ Arlidge Detective Inspector Helen Grace is no stranger to tragedy. But when a body is found in a Southampton nightclub, the death cuts too close to the bone. Hiding...

Author: DH Lawrence **In very delicate condition** his book contains the complete novels of D. H. Lawrence in the chronological order of their original publicationA MODERN LOVER (1933)HER TURN (1913)LOVE...

Frank Herbert Book three in Frank Herbert's magnificent Dune Chronicles--one of the most significant sagas in the history of literary science fiction.The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and...

Albert Camus 'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me'Meursault will not conform. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his...

Marcel Proust Both a psychological self-portrait and a profound meditation upon the artistic process, Proust's seven-part masterpiece In Search of Lost Time changed the course of twentieth-century literature. Swann's Way, the first volume,...

Frank Norris "I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't...

Joseph Conrad First published in 1900, Lord Jim is widely regarded as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Its central message about the consequences of straying from...