Modern Classics

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

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

Synopsis New York Times Bestseller. Winner of The Edgar Award for Best Novel 2014. Winner of The Dilys Award 2014. From New York Times bestsellin...

Synopsis Pitching an extraordinary battle between cruel authority and a rebellious free spirit, Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is a ...

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 ...

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

Synopsis The first novel in the Heaven series from the internationally bestselling author, Mitch Albom. This is  is a wonderfully moving fable th...

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. 'T...

Synopsis Introduced by Maggie O'Farrell. "Vera was painting the pony's hooves gold in the dining room; Janet said this was bad for him; poison wo...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...