Paperback edition of the Danish crime novel which interweaves a murder investigation with the central mystery of the theory of evolution. Voted the Danish Crime Novel of the Decade by Writers and R...
'There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the ...
As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? ...
Drunkard, malingerer, oaf and possible genius - the story of Czech soldier Svejk and his misadventures in the First World War is one of the most hilarious and subversive satires on war ever written.
An exciting, page-turning thriller from bestselling author Emlyn Rees. This follows Danny who wakes up in a London hotel room he's never seen before. Discovering he's been set up, he goes on the ru...
As Fyodor Karamazov awaits an amorous encounter, he is violently done to death. The three sons of the old debauchee are forced to confront their own guilt or complicity. Who will own to parricide? ...
Irma Voth is the nineteen year old narrator of this, Miriam Toews's fifth novel. She lives in a rural Mennonite community in Mexico. When a crew arrives to make a film about the community, Irma is ...
Rip van Winkle is an amiable man whose home and farm suffer from his lazy neglect; a familiar figure about the village, he is loved by all except his wife. One autumn day he escapes her...
High up on the mountainside, the Great Stone Face looks down at the people who live in the valley.Some day, the story runs, a great man will come to the valley and his face will look just lik...
For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed moder...
An absorbing new novel about one woman's resistance during the age that shook Paris, this is set in the 19th century. From the author of "Sarah's Key" and "A Secret Kept", it fo...
Moscow, 1929: a city that has lost its way amid corruption and fear, inhabited by people who have abandoned their morals and forsaken spirituality. But when a mysterious stranger arrives in town w...
For Joyce, literature 'is the eternal affirmation of the spirit of man'. Written between 1914 and 1921, Ulysses has survived bowdlerization, legal action and bitter controversy. An undisputed moder...
In Lisbon in 1904, a young man named Tomás discovers an old journal. It hints at the location of an extraordinary artefact that - if it exists - would redefine history. Travelling in one of ...
This powerful novel, Tolstoy’s third major masterpiece, after War and Peace and Anna Karenina, begins with a courtroom drama (the finest in Russian literature) all the more stunning for being...
High up on the mountainside, the Great Stone Face looks down at the people who live in the valley.Some day, the story runs, a great man will come to the valley and his face will look just lik...
A NUMA research vessel is taking water samples at sunset, when a crew member spots a sheen of black oil ahead of them. But it is not oil. Like a horde of army ants, a swarm of black particles sudde...
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a bony hand on hi...
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ...
Married to a great man, in love with a man like no other...When Charles Sainte-Beuve, a French journalist, met Victor Hugo, an ambitious young writer, he was swept into a world of grand emotions, a...