'I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot', Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel, The Waves. Widely regarded as one of her greatest and most original works, it conveys the rhythms of life in...
Unwillingly Michael Dillon is caught up in the troubled politics of Northern Ireland, facing a moral dilemma when the IRA plants a bomb in his car and orders him to park it outside the hotel he man...
A body is found on a chicken farm back in 1924 in East Sussex. Norman Thorne is a young chicken farmer who is accused of killing his girlfriend. The story is based on a true incident.
Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good job' in advertising to work part-time in a bookshop, giving him more time to write. But he slides...
For readers who were gripped by the world of espionage in William Boyd's Restless, The Berlin Crossing is a compelling, unforgettable novel that brings to life the very human story behind a momento...
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more ...
Fiona Maye is a leading High Court judge, presiding over cases in the family court. She is renowned for her fierce intelligence, exactitude and sensitivity. But her professional success belies priv...
Geralt the Witcher is on a mission; to save his ward, Ciri, and with her the world... The third in the bestselling series that inspired the cult Witcher video games. To be published alongside and c...
That is not dead that can eternal lie And with strange aeons even death may die Millenia ago, the Old Ones ruled our planet. Since that time, they have but slumbered. But when a massive sea tremor ...
In 1851, at the age of twenty-two, Tolstoy joined the Russian army and travelled to the Caucasus as a soldier. The four years that followed were among the most significant in his life, and deeply i...
Survivor, genius, perfumer, killer: this is Jean-Baptiste Grenouille. He is abandoned on the filthy streets as a child, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more ...
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 ...
After years of struggle, the Foundation lies in ruins - destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But it is rumored that there is a Second Foundation hidden somewhere at the end of the Galaxy...
The first collection of stories King has published in nine years includes 14 dark tales, some published here for the first time. Whether writing about encounters with the dead, the near dead, or ab...
Featuring an ordinary man who wakes up to find himself turned into a giant cockroach, Kafka's masterpiece of unease and black humour, Metamorphosis, is brought together here with the best of his sh...
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 ...
The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quenti...
Hippocrene has boasted a strong Polish-interest publishing program for many years, and published a new translation of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz’s Nobel Prize-winning novel. (A translation...
In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with help of a selfless Swallow, helps p...