Modern Classics

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

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

Synopsis In this novel - a story of irreconcilable loves and infidelities - Milan Kundera addresses himself to the nature of twentieth-century 'Bei...

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 ...

Synopsis First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a classic of contemporary literat...

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...