Modern Classics

Synopsis The Buddha of Suburbia is a novel by British Pakistani author Hanif Kureishi, which won the Whitbread Award for the best first novel. The ...

Synopsis The Bridges of Madison County . . . and Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend (Omnibus Edition). The story of Robert Kincaid, the photographer and free...

Synopsis The International Bestseller. Longlisted for The Man Booker Prize 2010. . . . at a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly ...

Synopsis Dr Max Aue is a family man and owner of a lace factory in post-war France. He is an intellectual steeped in philosophy, literature, and cl...

Synopsis The New York Times Bestseller. Midnight, New Year's Eve, 1976. Nine lives are about to be changed forever. Regan and William Hamilton-Swee...

Synopsis A daring, moving fictional account of the last moments of a father and his two sons atop the World Trade Centre on September 11 2001. 'Th...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2009, a novel inspired by the shocking true story of the Scottsboro boys. With an introductio...

Synopsis 25th Anniversary Edition with a new introduction by the author. It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted...

Synopsis The International Bestseller. Shortlisted for The Man Booker Prize. Kate Grenville's modern classic of one man's loss, struggle and surviv...

Synopsis Berlin, 1940, and the city is filled with fear. At the house on 55 Jablonski Strasse, its various occupants try to live under Nazi rule in...

Synopsis The Japanese Bestseller. A beautiful, moving story about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time,...

Synopsis The first days of summer: Jim Praley is home from college, ready to unlock Tulsa’s secrets. He drives the highways in his parents’ car. Fi...

Synopsis Long-Listed for The Orwell Prize 2020. In 1989 Saul Adler (a narcissistic, young historian) is hit by a car on the Abbey Road. He is appar...

Synopsis The dark but witty The Patrick Melrose Novels charts the life story of the highly dysfunctional, upper-class Patrick, together in one volu...

Synopsis Michael Frayn's classic is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of...

Synopsis Hailed as a masterpiece from the moment of its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, be...

Synopsis A timeless novel of a straitlaced village's awakening to joy and sensuality - every page offers a description of chocolate to melt in the ...

Synopsis Libra is a 1988 novel by Don DeLillo that describes the life of Lee Harvey Oswald and his participation in a fictional CIA conspiracy to a...

Synopsis In 1915, two spirited Australian sisters join the war effort as nurses, escaping the confines of their father's dairy farm and carrying a ...

Synopsis Number 98 in The Guardian's 100 Best Novels of All Time (2015). "He speaks in your voice, American, and there's a shine in his eye that's ...

Synopsis Shortlisted for The Booker Prize 2000 & Whitbread Book Awards: Novel Category 2000. England, 1930's. Christopher Banks has become the ...

Synopsis Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all...

Synopsis Everyman's Classic Library Edition. The Name of the Rose is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder ...

Synopsis A special edition of John le Carré's thrilling novel of espionage and betrayal in the Middle East, to tie in with the BBC series starring ...