A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match. At first, they crumble, until they are helped by whispered ad...

'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' Oscar WildeThe Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere and unbearable ...

Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Française tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circum...

A definitive annotated edition of one of the greatest of Terry Pratchett’s multi-million-bestselling Discworld novels Commander Sam Vimes of the An...

With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery and horror fi...

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. These lively, varied and thought-provoki...

Introduction and Notes by David Blair. University of Kent at Canterbury. It is 1757. Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain and France ...

The classic book that inspired Kes, the famous film, now published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave w...

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF PICADOR BOOKS I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane? Patrick Bateman has it all: good looks, youth, char...

'You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business'As a struggling writer in his twenties, Orwell lived a...

This is Orwell's memoir of his experiences during the Spanish Civil War - a groundbreaking work of dissident literature drawn from vivid personal e...

In an isolated castle deep in the Austrian forest, Laura leads a solitary life with only her ailing father for company. Until one moonlit night, a ...

One of Dickens's finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterio...

'If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The Times Tolstoy's enthral...

'Indisputably the definitive translation' Observer'If there is one novel you should read before you die, it is Don Quixote' Ben OkriWidely regarded...

'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he de...

EVERYONE BELONGS TO EVERYONE ELSE Welcome to New London. Everybody is happy here. Our perfect society achieved peace and stability through the proh...

Discover Dostoevsky's masterpiece. 'The old woman was merely a sickness . . .it wasn't a human being I killed, it was a principle!' A troubled youn...

Down the rabbit-hole and through the looking-glass! Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories features all of the best-known works of Le...

Homer's "The Iliad" is an enduring masterpiece that vividly depicts the final weeks of the Trojan War. Central to the story is the conflict between...

Jim Hawkins's thrilling adventure, outwitting the sinister Blind Pew and Long John Silver's treacherous crew aboard the Hispaniola as friend and fo...

A brilliant story of intrigue, retribution, revenge and redemption. Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantes spends fourteen bitte...

As Mrs Dalloway works on the preparations for a dinner party, her thoughts throughout the day wander from memories of the past to interrogations ab...

No home library is complete without the classics! The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection brings together the essential works from Arthur Conan Doy...

Jane Austen's beloved novel of romance in the Regency era has long been a reader favorite.First published in 1813, Pride and Prejudice is one of th...

Anne of Green Gables has been one of the world’s most charming coming-of-age stories for more than a century.Best-selling Canadian author Lucy Maud...

The Art of War, the world's oldest treatise on warfare, has been studied by leaders for centuries.Dated to about fifth century BCE, The Art of War ...

With a foreword by Tessa Bailey, author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line and Sinker Self-appointed matchmaker Emma Woodhouse is convinced t...