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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...

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...

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...

It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go . In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will...

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 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...

This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth-century. Including A Good Man is Hard to Find and Everything...

'It was our third time playing the Godfather theme since lunch.' In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the...

'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...

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....

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...

Annie Dunne and her cousin Sarah live ands work on a small farm in a remote and beautiful part of Wicklow in late 1950s Ireland. When Annie's nephew and his...

Be near me when my light is low, When the blood creeps, and nerves prick, And tingle; and the heart is sick, And all the wheels of, Being slow. -...

'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...

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...

'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...

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...

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 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...

'This book is a novel in the form of variations. The various parts follow each other like the various stages of a voyage leading into the interior of a theme,...

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...

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...

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...

This selection made by E.E. Cummings himself from eleven books of poems constitutes a comprehensive introduction to his work.

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...

Jellicle Cats come one and all. Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.Join the Jellicle Cats under the Jellicle Moon in the forth picture-book pairing from Arthur Robins and T. S....

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...

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...

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...

'One of the strangest and angriest novels of the twentieth century.' - Lauren Groff'An extraordinary, savage novel.' - Olivia Laing'I love this novel.' - Patricia LockwoodShe would not feel safe...

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...

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...

'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...

Author: Milan KunderaFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 196mm, 131g, 160 pagesPublished: Faber & Faber, United Kingdom, 1999Sometimes - perhaps only for an instant - we fail to recognise a companion; for...

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 ....

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...

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...

Author: Kathleen Farrell, DNSc, APRN, ACNP, CCNS, CCRN Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 A dysfunctional family reunites for the Christmas holiday from hell in this rediscovered festive classic with...

Author: James Catchpole Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 32 One-legged Joe is often told that he's Amazing Joe or Poor Joe, but what if he'd rather just be ... Joe?...

Author: Alexia Casale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 An entirely original and much needed authentic perspective from a teenager coming to terms with her disability as she's coming of...

Author: Leila Slimani Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 The seductive, vibrant new novel from international bestselling author Leila Slimani. Morocco, 1968. As she stands at the window, Mathilde reflects...

Author: David Stubbs (Associate Editor) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 They don't make comedy like they used to . . .From the slapstick comedy of Charlie Chaplin and Stan...

Author: Sam Knight Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Fascinating.' - Hilary Mantel 'Terrific.' - New Scientist 'Gripping.' - Financial Times What if you had a vision that something terrible...