BOOKS

Middlemarch (1871-2) is perhaps the masterpiece of a writer who is now recognized as a major literary figure of the nineteenth century. Virginia Wo...

Dorothea Brooke can find no acceptable outlet for her talents or energy and few who share her ideals. As an upper middle-class woman in Victorian E...

When Mike Noonans wife dies unexpectedly, the bestselling author suffers from desperate writers block. Until he is drawn to their summer home, Sara...

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can read fictional characters to life when one of those ch...

From the worlds biggest selling author comes another nail-biting page-turner. Paperback , 332 pages Published July 1st 2003 by Pan MacMillan (first...

What do a dead cat, a computer whiz-kid, an Electric Monk who believes the world is pink, quantum mechanics, a Chronologist over 200 years old, Sam...

Novel tracing Jude Fawleys life from his aspirations of intellectual freedom to his early death. Paperback , 512 pages Published July 27th 1978 by ...

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...

The Mill on the Floss , published in 1860, is a vivid portrayal of childhood and adolescence in rural England. The novel centres on Maggie Tulliver...

The Stanford Family Is One Of The Most Respected In America - But Behind The Facade Of Fame And Glamour Lies A Hidden Web Of Blackmail, Drugs And M...

Throws light on William Wordsworth's creative process, and shows how the interdependence of brother and sister was a vital part in the writing of m...

young prince meets with his fathers ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to...

A young orphan, Pip, receives a fortune from a mysterious benefactor and travels to London in order to become a gentleman

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...

Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, Women in Love is both a lucid account of English society before the First World War, and a bril...

The Kite Runner Of Khaled Hosseinis Deeply Moving Fiction Debut Is An Illiterate Afghan Boy With An Uncanny Instinct For Predicting Exactly Where A...

Sense And Sensibility Is A Delightful Comedy Of Manners In Which The Sisters Elinor And Marianne Represent These Two Qualities. Elinors Character I...

The Hobbit, Or There And Back Again Is A Children's Fantasy Novel By English Author J. R. R. Tolkien. It Was Published On 21 September 1937 To Wide...

 story of old-fashioned village life wrote George Eliot of Silas Marner, whose Wordsworthian theme is the remedial influence of pure, natural human...

'Whenever I see Martino I am reminded of how little I know about life and death compared to him. How we don't know what is within us or what may li...

SUNDAY TIMES MUSIC BOOK OF THE YEARROUGH TRADE BOOK OF THE YEARMOJO BOOK OF THE YEARIn 1975, Viv Albertine was obsessed with music but it never occ...

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

Oliver Twists famous cry of the heart — Please, sir, I want some more — has resounded with generations of readers of all ages. The author poured hi...

An Observer and Spectator Book of the YearLonglisted for the Historical Writing Association Gold Crown AwardMeet Yuri Zipit.A boy who's had a bang ...

Paperback , 271 pages Published 1994 by Puffin Books (first published May 1906)

When a dwarf comes into the office and leaves a package, Tim Diamond, the world's worst private dick, is faced with his toughest case yet. The offi...

Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, this work explores with humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep So...

Eat, Pray, Love A Celebrated Writer Pens An Irresistible, Candid, And Eloquent Account Of Her Pursuit Of Worldly Pleasure, Spiritual Devotion, And ...

Some people wait their whole lives to find their soul mates. But not Holly and Gerry. Childhood sweethearts, they could finish each others sentence...

The story of Quasimodo, the hunchback bellringer of Notre-Dame cathedral and his devotion to the beautiful gypsy dancer Esmeralda. When the demente...

Enthralled By His Own Exquisite Portrait, Dorian Gray Exchanges His Soul For Eternal Youth And Beauty. Influenced By His Friend Lord Henry Wotton, ...

A Page-turning Novel Of Desire And Broken Dreams From The Internationally Bestselling Author Of The Other Side Of Midnight And If Tomorrow Comes. T...

Set on a farm in rural Devon, Farm Boy is a collection of Grandpas reminiscences and stories touchingly told to his grandson. Superbly told by a ma...

A stunning novel of World War 1. It is so absorbing and atmospheric that you will want to keep reading to the end. Told through the voice of a youn...

I really think I have done it ingeniously and with a very complicated interweaving of truth and fiction. So wrote Dickens of David Copperfield (185...