In the Spring of 1857, with India on the brink of a violent and bloody mutiny, Krishnapur is a remote town on the vast North Indian plain. For the British there, life is orderly and genteel. Then the sepoys at the nearest military...

Winner of the 1970 lost Man Booker prize'A work of genius' GUARDIAN'One of the finest novels of the past 50 years' MAIL ON SUNDAY'Funny, sad and beautifully written; prescient, wise, original and unexpectedly eccentric' OBSERVER'No finer...

A classic novel by a Booker Prize-winning author.Soon to be adapted for an ITV television series by the Oscar-winning playwright behind Atonement and Dangerous Liaisons, Christopher Hampton. Singapore just before the Japanese invasion in...

Singapore, 1939: life on the eve of World War II just isn't what it used to be for Walter Blackett, head of British Singapore's oldest and most powerful firm. No matter how forcefully the police break one strike, the natives go on strike...

WINNER OF THE 1970 BOOKER PRIZE'And so at the Majestic everything returned to the way it had been before. The gleaming tiles became dulled. Sofas as sleek as prize cattle lost their glow.' 1919, the Majestic Hotel in Kinalough, Ireland....

'For a novel to be witty is one thing, to tell a good story is another, to be serious is yet another, but to be all three is surely enough to make it a masterpiece' New Statemsan von Farrell, J. G.

A love story and a war story: a modern classic from Booker prize-winner J.G. Farrell von Farrell, J. G.