Robert M Pirsig In this best-selling new book, his first in seventeen years, Robert M. Pirsig, author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, takes us on a poignant...

Binyomin Forst Knowledge of the laws of niddah is absolutely essential for every married woman, and in this new book, Rabbi Forst performs an invaluable service. Unlike his previous works,...

Patrick WhiteElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning...

Author: Isaac Bashevis SingerThe Slave is a powerful love story set against the exotic background of 17th century Poland with all its superstitions, witchcraft and witch-hunts, abundant life and appaling...

Judith MartinFor parents, stepparents, grandparents, teachers, psychologists, ice-cream vendors, and all others who must, however unwillingly, deal with children constantly, during working hours, or on weekends and holidays. The precocious...

Natalie BabbitDoomed to - or blessed with - eternal life after drinking from a magic spring, the Tuck family wanders about trying to live as inconspicuously and comfortably as they...

Author: Rudyard Kipling Kipling's own drawings, with their long, funny captions, illustrate his hilarious explanations of How the Camel Got His Hump, How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin, How the...

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...

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...

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...

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: 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...