Catherine Cookson Suddenly risen to power and influence, Samuel Fairbrother, manufacturer and retailer of boots, shoes and clogs, decided that his new station in life deserved a more imposing residence....

Gao Xingjian Moving between the nightmare of the Cultural Revolution and the tentative, limited liberties of the China of the 1990s, ‘One Man’s Bible’ weaves memories of a Beijing boyhood...

Patricia Highsmith Penguin Readers are simplified texts designed in association with Longman, the world famous educational publisher, to provide a step-by-step approach to the joys of reading for pleasure. Each...

Randa Abdel-Fattah High school is tough enough without throwing a hijab into the mix... What's my class going to say on Monday when I walk in wearing a muslim veil...

George Du Maurier 1894. With illustrations by the author. Artist and writer, Trilby is his best remembered work. The novel begins: It was a fine, sunny, showery day in April. The big...

Ciji Ware "Blindly, she inched along a floor pitching as violently as the deck of a boat in a midwinter storm. Her hands touched the threshold opening onto the ninth...

Nicki Blumenau Block and Jeff Lomey Ryder’s future dreams are by now entirely obliterated. He grips the wheel of the high-tech car, destination unknown, on his journey searching for new...

Muriel Barbery  France's greatest food critic is dying, after a lifetime in single-minded pursuit of sensual delights. But as Pierre Arthens lies on his death bed, he is tormented by...

David Guterson From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes a coming-of-age novel about two different visions of what it means to live a good life and...

Usha KR A brush with a strange creature would change his life forever. 3 January 2000. It is the start of the new millennium. On Ammanagudi Street in Bangalore, a...

Alice Oseman 'I'm gonna die. I'm literally gonna die.''Wouldn't recommend that,' says Juliet, as if she's been on a two week holiday to Death and gave it a two out...

Matthew Blakstad How do you find someone who doesn't exist?There's no such person as sic_girl. She's a fake internet personality Dani Farr designed to win a bet.But she's just started...