(Paperback)
By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780141395432
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2014
UK Publication Date: 2nd January 2014
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Indian Dr Veraswami, he defies this orthodoxy. The doctor is in danger: U Po Kyin, a corrupt magistrate, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club, and Flory can help.
(Paperback)
By: George Orwell
ISBN: 9780063344365
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2024
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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Can he find the strength to do right not only by his friend, but also by his conscience
Orwell moves between grand-scale political scheming and intimate social settings, mining his own colonial Indian roots and his personal experience seeing the dirty work of Empire at close quarters to create this searing work of historical fiction.
(Paperback)
By: Barbara Baynton
ISBN: 9781922079497
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Text Publishing
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First published 1902, Bush Studies is famous for an unsentimental depiction of frontier life with its particular difficulties for women.
(Paperback)
By: Rosemary Tonks
ISBN: 9781784879327
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2024
UK Publication Date: 2nd May 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Hardback)
By: Sam Selvon
ISBN: 9780241630877
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Voltaire
ISBN: 9781857151305
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1992
UK Publication Date: 8th October 1992
Publisher: Everyman
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The spirit of satire flourished during the Enlightenment, and its crowning achievement was Voltaire's "Candide". It follows the worldwide encounters - with shipwrecks, earthquakes, pestilence and human insanity - of its hero and his absurd tutor, Dr Pangloss.
(Paperback)
By: P.G. Wodehouse
ISBN: 9781787461079
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
UK Publication Date: 28th June 2018
Publisher: Cornerstone
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(Hardback, Special edition)
By: Agatha Christie
ISBN: 9780008737986
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2025
UK Publication Date: 27th March 2025
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Could a murder at an English school be Hercule Poirots toughest assignment Can he find the cat before this most feline of killers strikes again This brand new Special Edition hardback is a book no cat-loving Agatha Christie fan will want to miss.
(Paperback)
By: Joseph Heller
ISBN: 9780099529125
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
UK Publication Date: 23rd June 2011
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Reading Joseph Heller's classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage.
Set in the closing months of World War II, this is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never met are trying to kill him.
(Paperback)
By: Raymond Carver
ISBN: 9780099530336
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2009
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2009
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'.
(Leather / fine binding, Bonded Leather)
By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781435124998
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2011
UK Publication Date: 30th June 2011
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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Brings together five of Charles Dickens' best-known novels: "Oliver Twist", "A Christmas Carol", "David Copperfield", "Great Expectations" and "A Tale of Two Cities".
(Hardback)
By: Charles Dickens
ISBN: 9781684129058
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2019
UK Publication Date: 28th November 2019
Publisher: Canterbury Classics
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Four of Charles Dickenss most enduring and popular works in one volume.
(Paperback)
By: Roald Dahl
ISBN: 9780241677308
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2024
UK Publication Date: 30th January 2024
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UK
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(Paperback)
By: Stefan Zweig
ISBN: 9780241747292
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2025
UK Publication Date: 17th April 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Stefan Zweig
ISBN: 9780241305164
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2017
UK Publication Date: 1st June 2017
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Hardback)
By: Stefan Zweig
ISBN: 9780241630822
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
UK Publication Date: 25th May 2023
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Andrey Platonov
ISBN: 9781784879150
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2025
UK Publication Date: 9th January 2025
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
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(Paperback)
By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9781787479302
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
UK Publication Date: 12th November 2020
Publisher: Quercus Publishing
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This riverrun edition presents a master Russian storyteller whose fierce gift for intimate address summons the wholeness of life on every page. Translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, whose versions were those in which many of Tolstoy's best-known and most influential works were first read in English.
(Paperback)
By: Leo Tolstoy
ISBN: 9780140449921
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2012
UK Publication Date: 5th April 2012
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Offers an account of a young person's emerging awareness of the world and of his place within it.
(Paperback)
By: H. G. Wells
ISBN: 9780720619393
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
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First published in 1925, this overlooked classic will please avid fans and readers new to H.G. Wells alike. Now introduced by acclaimed biographer of H.G. Wells, Michael Sherborne, who suggests that this story of a girl who learns her parents are not who she thought was very personal to Wells.
(Paperback)
By: Nancy Mitford
ISBN: 9780241342862
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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(Paperback)
By: Saki
ISBN: 9781911547181
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2017
UK Publication Date: 9th November 2017
Publisher: Daunt Books
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If you've ever stayed with dull people during what is alleged to be the festive season, you'll know a good dose of Saki is the only cure.
(Hardback)
By: Becky Brown
ISBN: 9781529020991
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
UK Publication Date: 17th September 2020
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
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This delightful anthology of Cat Stories is the perfect gift for cat lovers everywhere.
(Hardback)
By: Editors of Canterbury Classics
ISBN: 9781684125548
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2018
UK Publication Date: 10th September 2018
Publisher: Canterbury Classics
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A fine collection of classic novels, short stories, poems, and essays from distinguished women writers.
