Marilyn FfrenchBy the author of the groundbreaking feminist novel The Women's Room, The Bleeding Heart is a compelling novel about the devastating power of marriage -- and the unexpected power...

Robertson Davies"Should I have taken the false teeth?" This is what Dr. Jonathan Hullah, a former police surgeon, thinks after he watches Father Hobbes die in front of the High...

Golda Meir   My Life is the autobiography of the first female Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir. The book is both frank and very revealing of her personality and...

Mitch Albom 'All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time...'On his eighty-third birthday, Eddie, a lonely war veteran, dies in a tragic accident trying to...

Simon Sebag Montefiore   Inspired by a true story, prize-winning historian and acclaimed novelist Simon Sebag Montefiore explores the consequences of forbidden love in this heartbreaking epic of marriage, childhood,...

William Makepeace Thackeray   A novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions,...

Griff Rhys JonesThe Nation's Favourite: Comic Poems(The Nation's Favourite Poems)This wonderful anthology contains some of the nation's all-time favourite comic poetry. From much-loved classics such as Lewis Carroll's curious 'Jabberwocky'...

Bret LottJewel is the story of how quickly a life can change; how, like lightning, an unforeseen event can set us on a course without reason or compass.In the backwoods...

Andrew LangThis book is a selection by Andrew Lang of the most relevant tales found in the one thousand and one nights, some of which became classics of literature and...

Virginia Woolf   Heralded as Virginia Woolf's greatest novel, this is a vivid portrait of a single day in a woman's life. When we meet her, Mrs. Clarissa Dalloway is...

George EliotGeorge Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics.Wrongly...

James Joyce James Joyce's autobiographical A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a vivid portrayal of emotional and intellectual development. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an...