"Broken April" von Ismail Kadare ist ein Roman, der in den abgelegenen albanischen Bergen spielt und die strengen Traditionen des Kanun, eines alten Gewohnheitsrechts, erforscht. Die Geschichte folgt dem jungen Gjorg Berisha, der...

"A Special Providence" von Richard Yates ist ein Roman, der sich auf die komplexe Beziehung zwischen einem jungen Mann und seiner Mutter konzentriert. Die Geschichte spielt in den 1940er Jahren und folgt Robert Prentice, einem sensiblen...

Discover this selection of the best of Dickens' Christmas stories and writings in one beautiful gift edition. The ultimate Christmas present. It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you'll certainly...

Things: A Story of the Sixties is the story of a young couple who want to enjoy life, but the only way they know how to do so is through ownership of 'things'. Perec's first novel won the Prix Renaudot and became the cult book for a...

A masterwork by the incomparable, genre-defying, wondrous Italo Calvino. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. You like it. But there is a printer's error in your copy. You take it back to...

Discover the legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island. Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to join the navy. After a series of adventures at sea, he is shipwrecked in a devastating storm, and finds himself...

The third volume of Somerset Maugham's Collected Short Stories, introduced by the author, contains the celebrated series about Ashenden, a secret service agent in World War I. Based on Maugham's own experiences with the British...

Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices...

The great Icelandic novel written by a Nobel prize-winner, this is a magnificent portrait of the eerie Icelandic landscape and one man's dogged struggle for independence. ‘In Iceland it’s the canon, but to me it’s a cult classic’ Zadie...

Pip's life as an ordinary country boy is destined to be unexceptional until a chain of mysterious events lead him away from his humble origins and up the social ladder. His efforts to become a London gentleman bring him into contact not...

Every watcher becomes the watched When Robert becomes fixated on a woman he glimpses through her window, he imagines he’s found peace - until she notices him, and their lives entwine in a spiral of suspicion and death. Highsmith’s The...

It is said that Charles Dickens invented Christmas, and within these pages you'll certainly find all the elements of a quintessential traditional Christmas brought to vivid life: snowy rooftops, gleaming shop windows, steaming bowls of...