Modern Classics

Synopsis One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World'. Jean Rhys's masterpiece tells the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic', Ber...

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. ...

Synopsis Introduction by Ali Smith. Trumpet is the debut novel from Scottish writer and poet Jackie Kay, published in 1998. It chronicles the lif...

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 vo...

Synopsis Previously adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola starring Kirsten Dunst, this is the story of the five Lisbon sister...

Synopsis My Name Is Red is a 1998 Turkish novel by writer Orhan Pamuk translated into English by Erdağ Göknar in 2001. Pamuk would later receive ...

Synopsis Includes a new Introduction from Charles Cumming. A brainwashed James Bond has tried - and failed - to assassinate M, his boss. Now Bond...

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

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 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 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 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 The Name of the Rose is the 1980 debut novel by Italian author Umberto Eco. It is a historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery ...

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...