Classics

Synopsis One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th Century. Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who ha...

Synopsis James Bond #1. Published in 1953. Escape with the nation's favourite spy in the addictive first novel in Ian Fleming's classic series. L...

Synopsis It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And...

Synopsis '. . . I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a...

Synopsis Introduced by Hilary Mantel. In affairs of the heart the race is not necessarily won by the swift or the fair. Imogen, the beautiful and...

Synopsis The Secret Agent (Subtitled : A Simple Tale) is a novel by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1907. The story is set in London in 1886 an...

Synopsis Tender Is the Night is the fourth and final novel completed by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. The work was first serialized in Scrib...

Synopsis The Two Towers is the second of the three volumes of the epic novel The Lord of the Rings. It all takes place in the fictional universe ...

Synopsis With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal. University of Kent at Canterbury. Jules Verne had that rare storyteller's gift...

Synopsis "A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses a moment of experience from which to look ahead . . ." "This is a record of hate...

Synopsis This, his first novel, Crome Yellow, is quite far from a sci-fi novel, being instead of the species of British manor satires. On vacation ...

Synopsis The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy’s magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of t...

Synopsis With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. James was a master of the novella - the kind of tal...

Synopsis The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael Hofmann. Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. De...

Synopsis Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It ...

Synopsis On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950's underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his h...