BOOKS

Lady Chatterley's Lover has been notorious since it was written. Banned for 30 years it was published unexpurgated, by Penguin Books in 1960 and im...

Cubicle farms are full of enemy combatants begging to be taken out.' WIREDAchieve clandestine ends practically and inexpensively with Desk Wars - p...

Smollett's lively rendition of Cervantes's epic burlesque attempts to catch the feeling and tone of the Spanish original - a comic novelist's homag...

I am never too busy to think of S & S. I can no more forget it than a mother can forget her sucking child. So wrote Jane Austen to her sister i...

DOUGLAS ADAMS IS A TERRIFIC SATIRIST. --The Washington Post Book World Facing annihilation at the hands of the warlike Vogons is a curious time to ...

As two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch faces unpleasant foes who are out to get him... and that's just the people on his s...

t is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.' Thus memorably begins Jane Aus...

Veronika has everything she could wish for - young and pretty, with plenty of attractive boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet Veronika is...

In A Hidden Corner Of London, Henri Lachapelle Is Teaching His Granddaughter And Her Horse To Defy Gravity, Just As He Had Done In France, Fifty Ye...

This Was A Man Opens With A Shot Being Fired, But Who Pulled The Trigger, And Who Lives And Who Dies In Whitehall, Giles Barrington Discovers The T...

Erskine Childer’s gripping espionage thriller is set in the eerie seas and sands off the north coast of Germany Languishing one summer at the Forei...

Its time to get serious with Britains favourite funny man - Camp David, by David Walliams. David Walliams has been the camp aide to the Prime Minis...

Something Or Somebody That Begins With Just A Passing Thought And Ends Up Being The Only Thing We Can Think About. This Can Be Unerstood As Saintli...

Taken from the poverty of her parents home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her h...

Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury. This is a troubling story of crime,...

'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday The Discworld is very much li...

From such an innocent beginning Wodehouse weaves a comic tale of suspense and romance involving one of his most distinctive early heroes, Ronald Eu...

Maeve Binchy fans will love THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER Roisin Meaney's warm storytelling and unforgettable characters. The residents of Roone are getting...

The sequel to the million-selling international hit Sh*t My Dad Says

Ever wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into them twelve years later and realizing you still fancy them rotten. Thats exact...

Jane Eyre (originally published as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography) is a novel by English writer Charlotte Brontë. It was published on 16 October 1847,...

David Copperfield is the story of a young man’s adventures on his journey from an unhappy & impoverished childhood to the discovery of his voca...

Jo finds out that Jewish children are being smuggled away from the Nazis over the mountains near his village. All goes to plan until German soldier...

In this long-awaited biography, Wilde the legendary Victorian - brilliant writer and conversationalist, reckless flouter of social and sexual conve...