English Fiction
London Fields
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
The narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life. . . all Samson h... More »
Behind The Scenes At The Museum
$24.95 (Paperback book / Black Swan )
Ruby Lennox was conceived grudgingly by Bunty and born while her father, George, was in the Dog and Hare in Doncaster telling a woman in an emerald dress and a D-cup that he wasn't married. Bunty had never wanted to marr... More »
Pride And Prejudice
$9.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
When Elizabeth first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; while he struggles to remain indifferent to her good looks and lovely mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has i... More »
Empire Of The Sun
$22.95 (Paperback book / Harper Perennial )
Based on J. G. Ballard"s own childhood, this is the extraordinary account of a boy"s life in Japanese–occupied wartime Shanghai – a mesmerising, hypnotically compelling novel of war, of starvation and survival, of intern... More »
Sportswriter
$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
Frank Bascombe has a younger girlfriend and a job as a sportswriter. To many men of his age, thirty-eight, this would be a cause for optimism, yet Frank feels the pull of his inner despair and especially of his recent lo... More »
Regeneration
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
[A] brilliant novel...at its centre is a real-life encounter that occurred at Craiglockhart in 1917 between W.H.R. Rivers, an army psychologist, and Siegfried Sassoon...Intense and subtle, getting responsively under the ... More »
G: A Novel
$21.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
This novel centres on G, who seems impervious to everything around him. His interests are purely sexual, his crowning ideal fulfilment. Yet, in the end this is enough for the politics of desire to expose the criminal pol... More »
Remember Me
$27.95 (Trade paperback / Hodder Headline )
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Pilgrims Progress
$8.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
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Playing With The Grown Ups
$23.95 (Paperback book / Bloomsbury )
Kitty’s mother, Marina, is both utterly beguiling and terrifyingly embarrassing, and more often than not Kitty can only gaze on her antics with awe and toe-curling trepidation. But as Kitty grows up it becomes clear that... More »
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far from ... More »
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On Love A Novel
$22.95 (Paperback book / Grove Press )
The best-selling author of How Proust Can Change Your Life and The Art of Travel revisits his utterly charming debut novel, On Love. The narrator is smitten by Chloe on a ParisLondon flight, and by the time they've reach... More »
Wuthering Heights
$9.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events th... More »
Clockwork Orange
$17.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Fifteen-year-old Alex doesn't just like ultra-violence - he also enjoys rape, drugs and Beethoven's 9th. He and his gang rampage through a dystopian future, hunting for terrible thrills. But when Alex finds himself at th... More »
Possession: A Romance
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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Nights At The Circus
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
'Angela Carter has influenced a whole generation of fellow writers towards dream worlds of baroque splendour, fairy tale horror, and visions of the alienated wreckage of a future world. In Nights at the Circus she has in... More »
On The Black Hill
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
ON THE BLACK HILL is an elegantly written tale of identical twin brothers who grow up on a farm in rural Wales and never leave home. They till the rough soil and sleep in the same bed, touched only occasionally by the ad... More »
Man Who Was Thursday
$13.00 (Paperback book / Headline )
A group of anarchists are under surveillance by Scotland Yard in Chesterton’s hugely popular metaphysical thriller. The Supreme Anarchists Council is dedicated to overthrowing the world order. To keep their identities a ... More »
Woman In White
$8.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Marian and her sister Laura live a quiet life under their uncle's guardianship until Laura's marriage to Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival is a man of many secrets - is one of them connected to the strange appearances of ... More »
Woman In White
$9.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
The Woman in White famously opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter on a moonlit London road. Engaged as a drawing master to the beautiful Laura Fairlie, Walter is drawn into the sinister intrigues of Sir Percival ... More »
Being Dead
$22.95 (Trade paperback / Penguin )
Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. Celine and Joseph, married, middle-aged, are lying naked on the coast. They had met and first had sex there as students almost 30 years before. Now they hope to rediscover and rekindle passio... More »
In The Fold
$22.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
The Hanburys of Egypt Hill are the last word in bohemian living - or so they like to think. Their parties are famous, their relationships confusing, their bravado immense. To Michael, a young student arriving at the hous... More »
Robinson Crusoe
$7.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
The sole survivor of a shipwreck, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a desert island. In his journal he chronicles his daily battle to stay alive, as he conquers isolation, fashions shelter and clothes, first encounters ano... More »
Great Expectations
$9.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the bitter, decaying Miss Havisham and her beautiful, cold-hearted ward Estella; the sudden generosity of a myster... More »
Birth Of Venus
$25.00 (Paperback book / Virago )
Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the altar of the family chapel in their Florentine Palazzo. A child of the... More »
Middlemarch
$12.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community. Peopling its landscape are Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual ful... More »
Eyre Affair Thursday Next Book One
$23.00 (Paperback book / New English Library )
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Bridget Jones Diary
$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
In the course of the year recorded in Bridget Jones's Diary, Bridget confides her hopes, her dreams, and her monstrously fluctuating poundage, not to mention her consumption of 5277 cigarettes and "Fat units 3457 (approx... More »
Golden Child
$24.95 (Paperback book / Flamingo )
A re-issue of Penelope Fitzgerald's first novel.
The Golden Child is a classically plotted mystery centred around the arrival of the 'Golden Child' at a London museum. Whilst the new exhibit lures thousands of curious sp... More »
For Your Eyes Only
$17.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Sudden emergencies and beautiful girls who aren't quite what they seem and are the stock-in-trade of James Bond. And when 007 is on the case there's only one thing you can be sure of – the result will be thrilling. And w... More »
Last King Of Scotland Film Tie In
$22.95 (Paperback book / Faber & Faber )
In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Gar... More »
Good Soldier A Tale Of Passion
$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
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Young Hornblower Omnibus
$29.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
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Mr Midshipman Hornblower
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
1793, the eve of the Napoleonic Wars, and Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command . . . As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness, young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's ... More »
Passage To India
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
When Adela and her elderly companion Mrs Moore arrive in the Indian town of Chandrapore, they quickly feel trapped by its insular and prejudiced British community. Determined to explore the 'real India', they seek the gu... More »
Diary Of An Ordinary Woman
$23.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
Margaret Forster presents the 'edited' diary of a woman, born in 1901, whose life spans the twentieth century. On the eve of the Great War, Millicent King begins to keep her journal and vividly records the dramas of ever... More »
Forsyte Saga Volume One The Man Of Property In Chancery To Let
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
The Forsyte Saga is the first part of John Galsworthy's magnificent, well-loved Forsyte Chronicles, which trace the changing fortunes of the wealthy Forsyte dynasty through fifty years of material triumph and emotional d... More »
North And South
$12.95 (Paperback book / )
When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new... More »
White Family
$26.00 (Paperback book / Saqi )
The Whites are an ordinary British family: love, hatred, sex and death hold them together, and tear them apart. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, Alfred White, a London park keeper, still rules his home with ... More »
Cold Comfort Farm
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders: cousin... More »
Dolls House
$14.95 (Paperback book / Macmillan )
A very special story about the secret lives of dolls and the children who love them – now reissued with stunning illustrations by Christian Birmingham.
Tottie is a loving little wooden doll who lives with her family in... More »
I Claudius
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Despised for his weakness and regarded by his family as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues, bloody purges and mounting cruelty of the imperial Roman dynasties. In I, ... More »
Other Woman
$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
Ellie and Dan are living proof that opposites attract.
He always follows instructions and she throws the manual away. He loves sports whereas Ellie's allergic to any form of exercise. Ellie doesn't have a mother. And Dan... More »
Quiet American
$19.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cyn... More »
Other Boleyn Girl
$25.00 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Politics and passion are inextricably bound together in this compelling drama. The Boleyn family is keen to rise through the ranks of society, and what better way to attract the attention of the most powerful in the land... More »
Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time
$23.95 (Paperback book / Red Fox Books )
Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers... More »
King Solomons Mines
$12.95 (Paperback book / Headline )
When a young explorer goes missing, a search party sets out after him but soon find themselves on the most dangerous journey of their lives, in Haggard’s classic adventure tale. In Haggard’s most celebrated and enchantin... More »
Carhullan Army
$23.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
The state of the nation has changed. With much of the country now underwater, assets and weapons seized by the government - itself run by the sinister Authority - and war raging in South America and China, life in Britai... More »
Far From The Maddening Crowd
$8.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Independent and spirited Bathsheba Everdene has come to Weatherbury to take up her position as a farmer on the largest estate in the area. Her confident presence draws three very different suitors: the gentleman-farmer B... More »
Go Between
$17.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
When one long, hot summer, young Leo is staying with a school-friend at Brandham Hall, he begins to act as a messenger between Ted, the farmer, and Marian, the beautiful young woman up at the hall. He becomes drawn deepe... More »
The Line Of Beauty
$22.95 (Paperback book / Picador )
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2004 Starting at the moment *The Swimming-Pool Library* ended, The Line of Beauty traces the further history of a decade of change and tragedy. Richly textured, emotionally charged, disarmi... More »
High Fidelity
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Reading High Fidelity is like listening to a great single. You know it's wonderful from the minute it goes on, and soon as it's over you want to hear it again because it makes you feel young, and grown-up, and puts a stu... More »
Brave New World
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alon... More »
Mr Norris Changes Trains
$25.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
First published in 1933, Mr Norris Changes Trains portrays a series of encounters in Berlin in the early thirties between the narrator, William Bradshaw, and the camp and mildly sinister Mr Norris. Piquantly evocative of... More »
The Remains Of The Day
$23.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . . A contemporary classic,... More »
Making Of Henry
$23.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's love nest? Henry doesn't know, but he is glad to escape the North. After nearly sixty year... More »
Three Men In A Boat And Three Men On The Bummel
$16.95 (Paperback book / )
Three Men in a Boat describes a comic expedition by middle-class Victorians up the Thames to Oxford. It provides brilliant snap-shots of London's playground in the late 1880s, where the fashionable steam-launches of rive... More »
Dancing With Eva
$22.95 (Trade paperback / Simon & Schuster )
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Buddha Of Suburbia
$19.95 (Paperback book / Faber )
The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young Pakistani growing up in 1970s Britain.
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Debt To Pleasure
$22.00 (Paperback book / Picador )
Through descriptions of food and cooking, this novel draws the reader into a world of murder and art. Narrated by Tarquin, an ironist, epicurean and a snob, this novel is constructed around a series of seasonal menus, wh... More »
Lady Chatterleys Lover
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Co... More »
Spy Who Came In From The Cold
$24.99 (Paperback book / Hodder Headline )
With this superb, now classic novel of suspense, le Carre changed the rules of the game. His story is of one last breathlessly perilous assignment for the agent who wants desperately to end his career of espionage—to com... More »
Short History Of Tractors In Ukrainian
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
When their recently widowed father announces he plans to remarry, sisters Vera and Nadezhda realise they must put aside a lifetime of feuding in order to save him. His new love is a voluptuous gold-digger from the Ukrain... More »
Author Author
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Framed by a dramatic and moving account of Henry James's last illness, Author, Author begins in the early 1880s, describing James's friendship with the genial Punch artist, George Du Maurier, and his intimate but problem... More »
Beyond Black
$25.00 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her, and she talks back. With her flat–eyed, flint–hearted sidekick, Colette, she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead an... More »
Razors Edge
$24.95 (Trade paperback / Vintage )
Larry Darrell is a young American in search of the absolute. The progress of this spiritual odyssey involves him with some of Maugham's most brillant characters - his fiancee Isabel, whose choice between love and wealth ... More »
Ghostwritten
$24.99 (Paperback book / Sceptre )
An apocalyptic cult member carries out a gas-attack on a rush-hour metro, but what connects him to a jazz-buff in Tokyo? A Mongolian gangster, a redundant English spy in Petersburg with a knack for forging masterpieces, ... More »
Love In A Cold Climate
$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Nancy Mitford's brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London and Paris conjure up a world of glamour, gossip and decadence. In The Pursuit of Love, Love in a Cold Climate and The Blessing,... More »
Astonishing Splashes Of Colour
$24.95 (Trade paperback / Tindal Street Press )
Kitty is tipped off-centre by the loss of 'child that never was'. A moving story of identity problems in a large family, the sadness of lost children, the approach of breakdown and desperation - and also of optimism. More »
Rumpole Rests His Case
$19.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
When your life at the Bar has been as rich as Rumpole's, the past is best avoided - who knows what might have happened to ex-defendants? Still, it keeps intruding on the present. When Rumpole takes a break in the country... More »
Mahabharata
$22.00 (Paperback book / Penguin )
The Mahabharata is some 3,500 years old and is the longest poem in existence. It is one of the founding epics of Indian culture, yet is also a highly dramatic and enthralling story. It centres around a royal family who a... More »
Master And Commander
$22.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Master and Commander is the first of Patrick O'Brian's now famous Aubrey-Maturin novels and establishes the friendship between Captain Jack Aubrey RN and Stephen Maturin, who becomes his secretive ship's surgeon and an i... More »
Animal Farm Modern Classic
$16.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
It is the history of a revolution that went wrong - and of the excellent excuses that were forthcoming at every step for the perversion of the original doctrine,' wrote Orwell for the first edition of Animal Farm in 1945... More »
Playing Away
$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Connie has been happily married for a year. She's just met John Harding. Imagine the sexiest man you can think of. He's a walking stag weekend. He's a funny, disrespectful, fast, confident, irreverent pub crawl. He is al... More »
Gormenghast Trilogy
$49.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Enter the world of Gormenghast... Gormanghast is the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and ... More »
Dance To The Music Of Time Spring V1
$48.95 (Paperback book / Mandarin )
This twelve-volume sequence traces a colorful group of English acquaintances across a span of many years from 1914 to 1971. The slowly developing narrative centers around life's poignant encounters between friends and lo... More »
Italian Or The Confessional Of The Black Penitents
$18.95 (Paperback book / Oxford University Pr )
First published in 1797, The Italian is one of the finest examples of Gothic romance. The fast-paced, narrative centres on Ann Radcliffe's most brilliant creation, the sinister monk Schedoni, whose past is shrouded in my... More »
Persian Boy
$24.95 (Trade paperback / Arrow )
THE PERSIAN BOY tells the story of the climactic last seven years of Alexander the Great's life through the eyes of his lover, Bagoas. Abducted and gelded as a boy, Bagoas was sold as a courtesan to King Darius of Persia... More »
Book Of Dave
$22.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have p... More »
Dancer Upstairs
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
Can be read on its own or as a sequel to The Vision of Elena Silves. A chance encounter with Colonel Rejas provides the key to a story that Latin America correspondent John Dyer, has been following for 12 years, a story ... More »
The Thirteenth Tale
$23.00 (Paperback book / Orion )
Vida Winter, a bestselling yet reclusive novelist, has created many outlandish life histories for herself, all of them invention. Now old and ailing, at last she wants to tell the truth about her extraordinary life. Her ... More »
Wilt In Nowhere
$27.95 (Paperback book / Arrow )
Brilliantly written and bitingly funny, Tom Sharpe's indefatigable hero is pitted against the vices of an aristocratic pervert, the merciless greed of a politician's wife and the seedy underbelly of Britain's medical fac... More »
Frankenstein
$10.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and deni... More »
White Teeth
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, thr... More »
Sentimental Journey
$11.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
Yorick, Sterne's Englishman abroad, is blithely unconcerned by famous views or monuments. Bumping along in his coach, the amiable parson buttonholes us with tales of his encounters with all manner of men and women - part... More »
Raw Shark Texts
$23.95 (Paperback book / Text Publishing )
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Music And Silence
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
In the year 1629, a young English lutenist named Peter Claire arrives at the Danish Court to join King Christian IV's Royal Orchestra. From the moment when he realises that the musicians perform in a freezing cellar unde... More »
Barchester Towers
$11.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
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Other Peoples Children
$22.95 (Paperback book / Black Swan )
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Ruby In Her Navel
$24.95 (Paperback book / Penguin Books )
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Miss Garnets Angel
$25.00 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Miss Garnet's Angel is a voyage of discovery, a novel of Venice but also a rich story of the explosive possibilities of change in all of us at any time.
Julia Garnet is a teacher. Just retired, she is left a legacy which... More »
Brideshead Revisited
$22.95 (Trade paperback / Penguin )
Charles Ryder, a lonely student at Oxford, is captivated by the outrageous and decadent Sebastian Flyte. Invited to Brideshead, Sebastian's magnificent family home, Charles welcomes the attentions of its eccentric, arist... More »
War Of The Worlds
$12.95 (Paperback book / Random Century )
The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quic... More »
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit
$24.95 (Paperback book / Vintage )
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Jeeves And Wooster Omnibus
$29.95 (Trade paperback / Penguin )
Bertie is embroiled in plot and counterplot in these three glorious Jeeves and Wooster novels. In The Mating Season, Bertie pretends he is his old pal Gussie Fink-Nottle to ensure Gussie's engagement to the soppy Madelin... More »
To The Lighthouse
$14.95 (Paperback book / Penguin )
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminis... More »