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...

Jacopo StoppaIncludes Turner's works from National Gallery, London; National Maritime Museum (Greenwich), London; Tate Britain, London; University Museum, Liverpool; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; Museum...

Evelyn WaughLaced with cynicism and truth, "A Handful of Dust" satirizes a certain stratum of English life where all the characters have wealth, but lack practically every other credential. Murderously...

Etgar KeretA birthday-party magician whose hat tricks end in horror and gore; a girl parented by a major household appliance; the possessor of the lowest IQ in Mossad -- such...

Kathrine Kressman TaylorA rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, Address Unknown became an immediate social phenomenon and...

Ann Patchett Orange Prize winner Ann Patchett's second novel to be published in the UK. John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father....

Amos Oz‘In a world full of hype, noise, and confusion, the simple lucidity of The Same Sea is totally unexpected’ New York TimesAn intimate, everyday tale of unrequited love and...

Salman RushdieIn a tour-de-force that is both an homage to an immortal work of literature and a modern masterpiece about the quest for love and family, Booker Prize-winning, internationally bestselling...

Edward St AubynNever Mind, the first installment in Edward St. Aubyn's wonderful, wry, and profound Patrick Melrose Cycle, follows five-year-old Patrick through a single day, as the Melrose family awaits...

Arundhati RoyJust in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what the Bush administration really means when it talks about “compassionate conservativism” and “the war...

Pamela PeledForty-something year old Jennifer Moran spends a lot of time on the couch, eating chocolate. Widowed at an early age, she has brought up her daughter and taught a...

Hermann HesseNarcissus is a teacher at Mariabronn, a monastery in medieval Germany, and Goldmund his favourite pupil. While Narcissus remains detached from the world in prayer and meditation, Goldmund runs...