"Jane Eyre" ranks as one of the greatest and most perennially popular works of English fiction. Although the poor but plucky heroine is outwardly of plain appearance, she possesses an ind...
What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours, until day becomes night and night becomes day? What effect would this slowing have on the world? On the birds in the sky, the w...
Becky Brandon (née Bloomwood) is on a major rescue mission! Hollywood was full of surprises, and now she's on a road trip to Las Vegas to help her friends and family.She's determ...
What if you had the chance to live your life again and again, until you finally got it right?During a snowstorm in England in 1910, a baby is born and dies before she can take her first...
Lou Clark has lots of questions.Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places.Or why the flat she's owned for...
A colourful, multi-facted chronicle of New York in the early 1920s, Manhattan Transfer ranks with Joyce's Ulysses as a powerful and often lyrical meditation on the modern city. Using experimental m...
This is the first paperback edition to bring out in one volume Kate Chopin’s extraordinary novel The Awakening (1899), along with the complete text of her two collections of short stories, Ba...
Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a ...
In THE GREAT GATSBY, F. Scott Fitzgerald gives a splendid picture of America after the First World War - a time when the most important thing in life for some people became to gain wealth and status.
Englishman Paul West is living the Parisian dream, and doing his best not to annoy the French.But recently things have been going tres wrong:His apartment is so small that he has to cut...
Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. But one thing will always be out of his reach ... Everybody who is anybody is seen at his glittering parties. Day and night his Long Island mansion buzzes ...
Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a ...
The Man Booker Prize-longlisted follow-up to the multimillion-copy bestselling ONE DAY.David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced ONE DAY in this brilliant, ...
Delilah knows it's weird, but she can't stop reading her favourite fairy tale. Other girls her age are dating and cheerleading. But then, other girls are popular. She loves the comfort of the happy...
The Man Booker Prize-longlisted follow-up to the multimillion-copy bestselling ONE DAY.David Nicholls brings to bear all the wit and intelligence that graced ONE DAY in this brilliant, ...
This is the tale of the book thief, as narrated by death. And when death tells a story, you really have to listen.It's just a small story really, about, amongst other things:a girl
Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for thi...
An icon in the world of television news, Blaise McCarthy seems to have it all: beauty, intelligence and courage. But privately there is a story she has protected for years...
Dickens wrote of David Copperfield: 'Of all my books I like this the best'. Millions of readers in almost every language on earth have subsequently come to share the author's own enthusiasm for thi...
A small guest-house in an English seaside town run by a mother and her two children is the setting of this story. A lot of people come and stay for shorter or longer periods. The story is boult up ...