Modern Classics

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

Synopsis Rediscover one of the twentieth century's greatest romances in Lawrence Durrell's seductive tale of four tangled lovers in wartime Egypt...

Synopsis Rivers of London is the first novel in the series of the same name by English author Ben Aaronovitch. The novel was released on 10 January...

Synopsis One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Too...

Synopsis Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and strugg...

Synopsis Set in seventeenth century Amsterdam - a city ruled by glittering wealth and oppressive religion - a masterful debut steeped in atmosph...

Synopsis Shortlisted for the 2003 Man Booker Prize. Zoë Heller's Notes on a Scandal is a darkly compelling novel that explores the taboo subject of...

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 The classic, Pulitzer Prize winning novel, that made Alice Walker a household name. Set in the deep American South between the wars, The C...

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 This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Benjamin Kunkel. With his trademark dry wit, Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle...

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 Winner of The Booker Prize. The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's gre...

Synopsis Begun in 1959 by a twenty-two-year-old Hunter S. Thompson, The Rum Diary is a brilliantly tangled love story of jealousy, treachery, and v...

Synopsis The classic, award-winning novel, made famous by Steven Spielberg's film, tells of a young boy's struggle to survive World War II in Chin...

Synopsis An international bestseller and a modern classic, this suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and their remarkable reconstructio...

Synopsis The Bonfire of the Vanities is a 1987 satirical novel by Tom Wolfe. The story is a drama about ambition, racism, social class, politics, a...

Synopsis Novel / Screenplay adapted from a true story. A wrenching portrait of life in South Africa under apartheid. This is based on the true stor...

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 ...

Synopsis A Thousand Splendid Suns is a 2007 novel by Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini. It is his second, following his bestselling 2003 debut...

Synopsis "Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt down, exhausted, and stayed." Linda has an idiosyncratic home life: her parents live in abando...

Synopsis Border Trilogy #1. John Grady Cole is the last bewildered survivor of long generations of Texas ranchers. Finding himself cut off from the...

Synopsis Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plan...

Synopsis A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into l...

Synopsis 'The reason Homer Wells kept his name was that he came back to St Cloud's so many times, after so many failed foster homes, that the orpha...

Synopsis The Road is the astonishing post-apocalyptic novel by Cormac McCarthy, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 2007. A father and his young so...

Synopsis A novel of remarkable depth and poignancy from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. It is July 1962. Florence is a talented musi...

Synopsis One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific...