Classics

The Fiery Angel is one of the great achievements of modern Russian literature, as powerful and revolutionary as its contemporary, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. In a vividly atmospheric recreation of the occult underworld of sixteenth...

As part of the Smith & Taylor Classics collection, this edition preserves Fanny Hill in its full provocative force, complete with new critical commentary.  Banned from publication in the United States until 1966 for its...

'The best prose writer in English' - Gore Vidal. Celebrated as a masterpiece from its first publication, "A Single Man" is the story of George Falconer, an English professor in suburban California left heartbroken after the death of his lover Jim. With...

Hemingway''s early stories told in his distinctive style.''When she goes, he though. I''ll have all I want. Not all I want but all there is''In these early Hemingway stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight, love...

'A work of art...altogether a joyous and lovely thing' New York TimesSet in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love.It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest...

Toru Okada's cat has disappeared.His wife is growing more distant every day.Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has recently been receiving.As this compelling story unfolds, the tidy suburban realities of Okada's vague and...

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father's dark prophesy.The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down...

The haunting, enigmatic love story that turned Murakami into a literary superstar in Japan, and is his bestselling title throughout the worldAutumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first...

VINTAGE CLASSICS WEIRD GIRLS: Dive into the depraved, delectable depths of women’s weird fiction.'The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.'In the throes of a ‘temporary nervous...

These intimate love letters reveal the close, open relationship between de Beauvoir and Sartre, two of the twentieth century’s most groundbreaking thinkers - two people living out their philosophy.De Beauvoir lived her feminist philosophy. She...

ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN NOVELS EVER WRITTENWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION'No one forgets this book' Independent'One of the best first novels I remember ... uniquely unsentimental' Guardian'There is humour as well as tragedy in...

In summer, and particularly when the wind blows south-west across the lawn, the sceptic tank gives out a strong stench… ‘Oh, it is a body,’ the girls say. ‘We have a body in there. No one you know. It decomposes, of course, but...

Cathy is a beautiful and willful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave...

'Explosive, absurd...with plenty of oh la la and even more zut alors' The TimesWHEN IT COMES TO REVOLUTION, EVERYONE PAYSIn Paris, the Nada gang – a small cell of left-wing radicals – hatch a plan to kidnap the U.S...

Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is brilliantly reinvented by Howard Jacobson, in his merciless, sharp and funny story of revenge, justice and antisemitism.With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and...

Shakespeare's Othello is ingeniously transplanted into a high school setting in this taut story about teenage friendship and racial tension.Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat’s son Osei knows he needs an ally. Luckily he...

Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is revolutionised by the iconic Jeanette Winterson in her page-turning, heart-breaking story of a baby girl banished from home.A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged...

Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined in Edward St Aubyn's gripping story of a media mogul who has lost control.Henry Dunbar, the once all-powerful head of a global media corporation, is not having a good day. In his dotage he handed over...

Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is completely reimagined in this unforgettable zombie love story.‘R’ is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R...

Shakespeare’s Pericles is transformed by Mark Haddon into a vivid, breathtaking adventure that zooms between antiquity and the present day.A motherless girl grows up in isolated luxury, hidden from the world by her wealthy father. She...