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Lord of the Flies: New Educational Edition
Lord of the Flies is a novel that has captivated schoolchildren ever since it was first published in 1954. A teacher himself, Golding clearly understood what excites and interests children....
Conquerors: How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition...
The Alexandria Quartet: Justine, Balthazar, Mountolive, Clea
Lawrence Durrell was one of the best-selling, most celebrated English novelists of the late 20th century. The Alexandria Quartet is unquestionably his most admired work, at heart a sensuous and...
The Unconsoled
Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by...
When We Were Orphans
England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of...
Open City
Along the streets of Manhattan, a young Nigerian doctor doing his residency wanders aimlessly. The walks meet a need for Julius: they are a release from the tightly regulated mental...
The Bell Jar
'I was supposed to be having the time of my life.' When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she...
Spies
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackouts at night and a single random bombsite. But the...
My Name Is Red
In the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by the best artists of the day -...
A Pale View of Hills
In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman no wliving alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide...
Never Let Me Go
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of...
The Lacuna: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the U.S. and reared...
Man in the Dark
'I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.' So...
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Things have never been easy for Oscar. A ghetto nerd living with his Dominican family in New Jersey, he's sweet but disastrously overweight. He dreams of becoming the next J.R.R....
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty
Following the end of the First World War, Eneas McNulty joins the British-led Royal Irish Constabulary. With all those around him becoming soldiers of a different kind, however, it proves...
Housekeeping
Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of America. Abandoned by a succession of relatives,...
Ignorance
In Ignorance, set in contemporary Prague, one of the most distinguished writers of our time takes up the complex and emotionally charged theme of exile and creates from it a...
Beowulf
'The whole performance is wonderfully intermediate - poised between the Bible and folk wisdom, between the Light Ages and the Dark Ages - and at the same time pulverisingly actual...
Life is Elsewhere
A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this intriguing early novel by Milan Kundera. He takes us through the young man's fantasies and love affairs...
Birthday Letters
'To read [ Birthday Letters ] is to experience the psychic equivalent of the bends'. It takes you down to levels of pressure where the undertruths of sadness and endurance...
Amrita
A celebrated actress who has died in mysterious and shocking circumstances leaves behind an unconventional extended family that includes an older sister, a woman in her 20s through whose eyes...
Lord of the Flies
A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land...
Slowness
Slowness was Milan Kundera's first novel written in French. Disconcerted and enchanted, the reader follows him through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated in time by...
The Joke: 'A very beautiful novel.' (Salman Rushdie)
The Joke , Milan Kundera's first novel, gained him a huge following in his own country and launched his worldwide literary reputation. In his foreword Kundera explains why this completely...
Immortality: 'An artist, clearly one of the best to be found anywhere' (Salman Rushdie)
This breathtaking, reverberating survey of human nature finds Kundera still attempting to work out the meaning of life without losing his acute sense of humour. It is one of those...
Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
When Sylvia Plath's Ariel was published posthumously, A. Alvarez in the Observer wrote: 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to...
Collected Poems
This volume contains all Sylvia Plath's mature poetry written from 1956 up to her death in 1963.The text is preceded by an introduction by Ted Hughes and followed by notes...
The Waste Land and Other Poems
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain . . . Published in 1922, The Waste...
Selected Poems 1923-1958
This selection made by E.E. Cummings himself from eleven books of poems constitutes a comprehensive introduction to his work.
Selected Poems of T. S. Eliot
This selection, which was made by Eliot himself, is intended as an introduction to the main body of his poetry prior to Four Quartets, which is available separately in Faber...
Demon Copperhead: Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2023Winner of the 2023 Women's Prize for FictionTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY SELLING AUTHORAN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK'Extraordinary.' - OPRAH'Electrifying. . . Every sentence here...
Nina Simone's Gum: A Memoir of Things Lost and Found
THE TIMES BESTSELLERFEATURING AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK CAVE'Warren has turned this memento, snatched from his idol's piano in a moment of rapture, into a genuine religious artefact.' - NICK CAVE'In...
Indiana Bones and the Invisible City
Dive into the deep and join Indiana and Aisha in their twistiest adventure yet!As the slithery Serpent reveals his plan to plunge the world into peril, our hairy hero and...
These Days: 'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES
A Sunday Times, Times, Irish Independent, Spectator and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year'Sensationally good' - Sunday Times'Remarkably, unusually vivid' - The Times'Brilliantly evokes wartime love and heartbreak.' - GuardianTwo...
Fight Night: 'A Gem: humour and hope in the face of suffering'
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING AUTHORLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD'Go Grandma Elvira!' - Margaret Atwood'Wickedly funny and fearlessly honest.' - The New Yorker'Glorious.' - Sarah MossYou are a small thing, and you...
These Days: 'A gem of a novel, I adored it.' MARIAN KEYES
A Sunday Times, Times, Irish Independent, Spectator and Good Housekeeping Book of the Year'Sensationally good' - Sunday Times'Remarkably, unusually vivid' - The Times'Brilliantly evokes wartime love and heartbreak.' - GuardianTwo...
Nine Lives: 'I loved this.' Ann Cleeves
'Deliciously ingenious.' -Daily Mail'Keeps you guessing right to the end.' - PETER MAY'Smartly entertaining.' -Washington Post'So beautifully written, so gripping, so perfect.' - SOPHIE HANNAHIf you're on the list you're...
The Fortress of Solitude
From the funked-up, messed-up Brooklyn of the 1970s to the present day, this stunning novel spans thirty years in the life of two best friends, Dylan and Mingus, their families...
Uncle Paul: The 'Irresistible' (Val McDermid) Classic Summer Thriller
'A slow-burning chill of a read by a master of suspense.' - Janice Hallett'Sinister, witty and utterly compelling. A genius.' - Nicola UpsonAnother face, cool and smiling, framed against another...
Jellicle Cats
Author: T. S. EliotFormat: Paperback, 250mm x 250mm, 198g, 32 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2017Jellicle Cats come one and all. Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.Join the Jellicle...
Exiles: Three Island Journeys
Author: William AtkinsFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 266g, 320 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023'Breathtakingly good . . . Exiles is completely sui generis.' - EDMUND DE WAAL'Atkins spins...
The Discomfort of Evening: WINNERS OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020
Author: Lucas RijneveldFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 240g, 288 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2020*WINNER OF THE BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2020*'One of the best debut novels I have ever...
Rain
Author: Kirsty GunnFormat: Paperback, 160mm x 200mm, 200g, 104 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 1994A twelve-year-old girl spends summers at a lake with her parents and little brother. The...
Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love Story
Author: Mary TrevelyanFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 266g, 320 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 2023'Completely fascinating, revelatory . . . A classic of its kind.' - WILLIAM BOYD'Compelling ....
Beautiful World, Where Are You: Sunday Times number one bestseller
Author: Sally Rooney Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 'The literary phenomenon of the decade.' - Guardian 'The best novel published this year.' - The Times 'A spellbinding twenty-first-century love...
Property: The myth that built the world
Author: Rowan Moore (Architecture Critic) Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 Property carries a great promise: that it will make you rich and set you free. But it is also...
The Heartland: finding and losing schizophrenia
Author: Nathan Filer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'A truly important book. Radically open-hearted and vitally open-minded. I would implore you to read it, and share it, and talk...
The Madonna of The Mountains
Author: Elise Valmorbida Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 1923, north-eastern Italy: Maria Vittoria's father has left the village to find her a husband. He has taken his mule, a...