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Edgar Allan Poe

The Fall of the House of Usher, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Gold-Bug - some of the most famous tales of terror and the most macabre detective stories ever written.…

Shirley Jackson

Alone since four members of the family died of arsenic poisoning, Merricat, Constance, and Julian Blackwood spend their days in happy isolation until cousin Charles appears.

W. G. Sebald

A special 10th anniversary edition of this novel, widely regarded as one of the greatest works of literature of the last decade.

Jerome D. Salinger

Gabriel García Márquez

Ken Kesey

In this classic of the 1960s, Ken Kesey's hero is Randle Patrick McMurphy, a boisterous, brawling, fun-loving rebel who swaggers into the world of a mental hospital and takes over. A lusty, life-affirming…

John Steinbeck

In 1960, when he was almost sixty years old, John Steinbeck set out to rediscover his native land. He felt that he might have lost touch with its sights, sounds and the essence of its people.Accompanied…

Claudia Rankine

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2015 and National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2015, this book examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes…

John Updike

It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house…

John Kennedy Toole

John Steinbeck

The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength…

Jean Kwok

Kimberly Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them - making a new home in a new country. But all they can afford is a verminous, broken-windowed Brooklyn apartment.…

Alain de Botton

A brilliant new novel about love and marriage in the modern world - from the author the bestselling novel Essays in LoveModern love is never easy. Society is obsessed with stories of romance, but what…

Deborah Levy

Shortlisted for the Man Booker, Deborah Levy tells a hypnotic tale of female sexuality, power and myth. Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness.…

Edward Morgan Forster

Forster's autobiographical novel of homosexual love, featuring a new introduction by novelist David Leavitt.

Margaret Cavendish

Josie Silver

"An uplifting festive love story that will appeal to fans of ""Love Actually"" and ""Bridget Jones's Diary"". Laurie has never believed in love at first sight, that is, until she makes eye contact with…

Colm Toibin

It is Ireland in the 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scare. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving…

Arthur Conan Doyle

Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith's fizzing first novel is ... an astonishingly assured debut, funny and serious, and the voice has real writerly idiosyncrasy. I was delighted by White Teeth, and often impressed.Salman…

Ralph Ellison

Samuel Selvon

First "Modern Classics" edition of this key novel of immigrant London life.

J. M. Coetzee

Elif Shafak