The bestselling American classic of youthful rebellion and coming of age on the streets, adapted into an award-winning film by Francis Ford CoppolaThe Greasers and the rich-kid Socs are...
'This is not our world with trees in it. It's a world of trees, where humans have just arrived' This is the story of a group of strangers, each summoned in different ways by the natural...
She was a fool and he knew it and because he loved her it had made no difference'Kitty Fane is the beautiful but shallow wife of Walter, a bacteriologist stationed in Hong Kong. Unsatis...
'As informative as it is poetic' Dolly Alderton'Compassionate, funny and beautifully written' Daisy BuchananEvery woman will experience the panic years in some way between her mid...
In a beautiful old apartment block, deep in the backstreets of Paris, secrets are stirring behind every resident’s door.The lonely wifeThe party animalThe curtain-twit...
HEROISM CAN BE FOUND IN THE QUIETEST PLACES - HOW LIBRARIANS DEFIED THE NAZISTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK'A wonderful novel celebrating the power of books and...
It is the summer of 1961 and the brutal Cold War between East and West is becoming ever more perilous.Two young prodigies from either side of the Iron Curtain, Yulia and Michael, meet a...
Violet is a highly successful celebrity stylist but away from the red carpets, her life is in shambles.After a very public breakup she is determined to focus on her career, and nothing ...
Love, Simon meets Friday Night Lights in this feelgood LGBTQ+ romance about a trans teen torn between standing up for his rights and staying stealth.'A sharply observant and vividly dra...
In this bold and radical book, award-winning science journalist Angela Saini goes in search of the true roots of gendered oppression, uncovering a complex history of how male domination first becam...
A stunning new series look for one of the greatest writers of the 20th century'In the town they tell the story of the great pearl - how it was found and how it was lost again. They tell...
One of Poland's most engrossing twentieth-century epics, by the 1924 winner of the Nobel Prize for LiteratureIn the village of Lipce, scandal, romance and drama crackle in every hearth....
Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ...
Truman Capote makes whisky-soaked fruitcake in Alabama; Laurie Lee slides across a frozen pond in Gloucestershire; and Shirley Jackson is outwitted by a wily Santa Claus at the bank. Ghosts haunt t...
The perfect gift this Christmas season: a generous selection of some of the greatest festive stories of all timeThis is a collection of the most magical, moving, chilling and surprising...
The short story has a rich tradition in French literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for rediscovery. The first ...
A spectacular treasury of the best British short stories published in the last twenty yearsWe are living in a particularly rich period for British short stories. Despite the relative la...
Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic ca...
World War III is raging - or so the millions of people crammed intheir underground tanks believe. For fifteen years, subterranean humanity has been fed on daily broadcasts of a never-ending nuclear...
'Propulsive, sinister, gripping' - ALEX MICHAELIDES, international bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The Fear'One thing I've learned, these last few weeks, is that small acts...