The Daughter Of Time by Josephine Tey (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Josephine Tey is often referred to as the mystery writer for people who don't like mysteries. Her skills at character development and mood setting, and her tendency to focus on themes not usually... read more

Crime And Punishment: A Novel In Six Parts With Epilogue (Vintage Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

A troubled young man commits the perfect crime - the murder of a vile pawnbroker whom no one will miss. Raskolnikov is desperate for money, but convinces himself that his motive for the murder is to... read more

The Water Meadows by Emma Blair (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

A story of a family's struggle against the devastating hardships of the 1920s depression, by the author of "Maggie Jordan" and "Scarlet Ribbons". Made redundant from his factory job in Glasgow and... read more

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn by Betty Smith (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

Francie Nolan, avid reader, penny candy connoisseur and adroit observer of human nature, has much to ponder in colourful, turn-of-the-century Brooklyn. She grows up with a sweet, tragic father, a... read more

Goodbye To Berlin by Christopher Isherwood (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

"I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking," are the famous lines on the first page. This a semiautobiographical account of Isherwood's time in 1930s Berlin. Written... read more

The Collegians by Gerald Griffin (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

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Memoirs Of A Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

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The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald (More from this author). Added: In the last 24 hours 

In 1922, F Scott Fitzgerald announced his decision to write "something new--something extraordinary and beautiful and simple, intricately patterned". That extraordinary, beautiful, intricately... read more

The Wonderful Story Of Henry Sugar And Six More by Roald Dahl (More from this author). Added: In the last week

If you could see with your eyes closed, how would you use your power? That’s what Henry has to decide in "The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar,"one of the seven stories in this extra-ordinary... read more

Ah, Sweet Mystery Of Life (Penguin Fiction) by Roald Dahl (More from this author). Added: In the last week

A new collection of Roald Dahl stories, all on a theme of country matters, featuring those wily characters Claud, Rummins and Bert, who appeared memorably in Dahl's story, "Parson's Pleasure". There... read more

A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark (More from this author). Added: In the last week

Set on the crazier fringes of 1950s literary London, A Far Cry from Kensington is a delight, hilariously portraying love, fraud, death, evil, and transformation. Mrs. Hawkins, the majestic narrator... read more

One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Essential Penguin) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (More from this author). Added: In the last week

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice." It is typical of Gabriel García... read more

The Well Of Loneliness (Virago Modern Classics) by Radclyffe Hall (More from this author). Added: In the last week

First published in 1928, this timeless portrayal of lesbian love is now a classic. The thinly disguised story of Hall's own life, it was banned outright upon publication and almost ruined her... read more

Naked Lunch (Harperperennial Classics) by William Burroughs (More from this author). Added: In the last week

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The Outcast by Sadie Jones (More from this author). Added: In the last week

1957, and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but... read more

The Voyage Of The Beagle: Charles Darwin's Journal Of Researches (Classics) by Charles Darwin (More from this author). Added: In the last week

When HMS Beagle sailed out of Devonport on 27 December 1831, Charles Darwin was twenty-two and setting off on the voyage of a lifetime. This title shows a naturalist making patient observations... read more

The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (More from this author). Added: In the last week

This collection of essays, sketches, and tales establishes Washington Irving's reputation. "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle" are classics of American fiction and display the authors... read more

Ape And Essence (Panther Books) by Aldous Huxley (More from this author). Added: In the last week

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Catch 22 by Joseph Heller (More from this author). Added: In the last week

Catch-22 is like no other novel. It is one of the funniest books ever written, a keystone work in American literature, and even added a new term to the dictionary.At the heart of Catch-22 resides the... read more

"The Call Of The Wild (American Library) by Jack London (More from this author). Added: In the last week

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