Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season between the wars, the story of coldly beautiful Polly Hampton and her aristocratic parents is the brilliant Nancy Mitford's most sparkling comedy.
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One of the most shocking novels of the late-18th century, now considered a classic of Gothic horror fiction. It tells of Ambrosio, a stern and saintly abbot, who is led astray by a young woman who enters his monastery disguised as a boy.
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In the summer of 1920, Tom Birkin, a shell-shocked young veteran of the Great War, comes to a small church deep in the Yorkshire Dales, where news of world events is scarce and whole villages meet for Sunday picnics.
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Moonfleet transports the reader to a world of mystery, adventure and romance: smugglers’ paths zigzagging up and down sheer cliffs; the Channel salt-breeze singing in the trees; the sturdy walls of the ruined castle on the Isle of Wight, and, most significantly, Chesil Beach and ‘the awful roar of the undertow sucking back the pebbles’.
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Mrs Dalloway is perhaps the most entertaining and accessible of Virginia Woolf’s novels, easily read as the story of a woman’s exploration of her past and a young man’s rejection of his future. In 2005, Time magazine chose Mrs Dalloway as one of the 100 best English-language novels.
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Winter, 1327. The medieval Church is rife with corruption. High in a remote monastery in Northern Italy, a young monk has been found murdered in bizarre circumstances.
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Newly republished, with the marvellous etchings of Dame Paula Rego that capture the magic and menace of the traditional nursery rhyme.
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This is Maugham’s masterpiece – never out of print and listed by The Times among the 100 greatest English-language novels of the 20th century. Its depiction of a young man’s search for meaning has extraordinary, sustained emotional power.
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One of Turgenev’s finest novels, On the Eve is a poignant love story and a portrait of Russian Society in the 1850s. Our edition is illustrated by Lauren Nassef and introduced by Hisham Matar.
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A fictionalised account of Jack's own journeys across America with his friend Neal Cassady, Kerouac’s beatnik odyssey captured the soul of a generation and changed the landscape of American fiction for ever.
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Compelling romance, epic tale of misadventure, cutting parable of cultural imperialism, Peter Carey's Oscar & Lucinda is overwhelmingly a story of all-consuming passions.
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A shocking assault on traditional mores when first published in 1942, The Outsider is a book of enduring power by a key 20th century philosopher. Matthew Richardson won the commission to illustrate this edition in the inaugural Book Illustration Competition. Man Booker prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut provides the introduction.
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The Royal Institution voted The Periodic Table the ‘Best Science Book Ever Written’. Levi wanted the world to know how ‘we transformers of matter live’, and his stories delve into his own past to examine the ‘strong and bitter flavour’ of a chemist’s life.
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Perrault's most enduringly popular fairy tales, from 'Cinderella' to 'The Sleeping Beauty', illustrated by the great Edmund Dulac.
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Oscar Wilde’s tale of the young man who sells his soul for eternal youth is one of the best-loved classics of the 19th century; its central image of the ageing portrait one of the most famous in all literature.
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