Modern Classics

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

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 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 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 Subtitled : Divided by War. United by Love. This is a heartbreaking, exquisitely written literary masterpiece. Now a major film starring T...

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 The Number 1 International Bestseller. Afghanistan, 1975: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-fighting tournament and ...