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Identical twins, Georgia and Bessi Hunter, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors mu...
View full detailsIdentical twins, Georgia and Bessi Hunter, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors mu...
View full detailsIndia, 1975. An unnamed city by the sea. The government has just declared a State of Emergency. Amidst a backdrop of wild political turmoil, the li...
View full detailsA rich American widow and her maid have been stabbed to death in a brutal attack. All the evidence points to Joseph, a young drifter, and he is soo...
View full detailsBrilliant and original, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers introduces a remarkable new writer whose breathtaking stories are set in China and among C...
View full detailsFollowing the widely acclaimed and bestselling The Summer Book, here is A Winter Book collection of some of Tove Jansson's best loved and most famo...
View full detailsA finely nuanced exploration of responsibility, snobbery and culture clash from one of the twentieth century's finest novelists. When Amy is sudden...
View full detailsFourteen years ago Aasmaani's mother Samina, a blazing beauty and fearless activist, walked out of her house and was never seen again. Aasmaani ref...
View full detailsCharting tantrums, funerals, pregnancy and love affairs, these stories unroll with piercing wit and compassion. One woman finds grief for her lost ...
View full detailsThe Sixth Century was not a peaceful one for the Roman Empire. Invaders threatened on all frontiers; Huns, Vandals, Goths, Saracens, Moors, Persian...
View full detailsNanda Gray, the daughter of a Catholic convert, is nine when she is sent to the Convent of Five Wounds. Quick-witted, resilient and eager to please...
View full detailsHeartland explores the paradox of rootedness and rootlessness facing Singaporeans born after the Japanese Occupation. Wing, who has just been consc...
View full detailsKafka on the Shore displays one of the world's great storytellers at the peak of his powers. Here we meet a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who is on th...
View full detailsPulled down from the clouds at the end of a kite string, Mary Poppins is back. In Mary’s care, the Banks children meet the King of the Castle and t...
View full detailsBy P. L. Travers, the author featured in the major motion picture, Saving Mr. Banks.From the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry...
View full detailsFrom the moment Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry-Tree Lane, everyday life at the Banks house is forever changed. This classic series...
View full detailsSir Edward Feathers has progressed from struggling young barrister to wealthy expatriate lawyer to distinguished retired judge living out his last ...
View full detailsIn the character of Trick E. Dixon, Roth portrays an American president who outdoes the severest cynic; a peace-loving Quaker and believer in the s...
View full detailstranslated by N. Guterman The most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English introduces readers to universal fairy-tal...
View full detailsGrady--beautiful, rich, flame-haired, defiant--is the sort of girl people stare at across a room. The daughter of an important man, who people want...
View full detailsThe Autograph Man follows one Alex-Li Tandem: a twenty-something Chinese-Jewish autograph dealer turned on by sex, drugs and organised religion. Fr...
View full detailstranslated by Nick Caistor The Argentine army's "Dirty War" disappeared 30,000 people, and the last thing Pepe Carvalho wants is to investigate one...
View full detailsThe stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have become part of the way children--and adults--learn about the vagaries of the real...
View full detailsDavid Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is an eminent cultural critic on NPR radio and a formidable lecturer at a New York college. For...
View full detailstranslated by David Bellos Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder (a 'new fangled' invention...
View full detailstranslated by Mihoko Inoue and Eileen B. Hennessy Set in eighteenth-century Japan, The Flower Mat unravels the story of a young bride born into a t...
View full detailsAn unruly bunch of bright, funny sixth-form boys in pursuit of sex, sport and a place at university. A maverick English teacher at odds with the yo...
View full details'When I was born my mother named me after every girl in a book my father gave her called The History of Love...' Fourteen-year-old Alma Singer is t...
View full detailsJessamy Harrison is eight years old. Sensitive, whimsical, possessed of a powerful imagination, she spends hours writing, reading or simply hiding ...
View full detailsThis is one of 1000 limited-edition copies of The Idiot published to mark the sixtieth anniversary of Penguin Classics, with a special jacket creat...
View full detailsA moving, wise and delightfully modern comedy of manners from the bestselling, Man Booker shortlisted author Karen Joy Fowler. Six people--five wom...
View full detailsWhen Clara returns home from the convent of her childhood to begin life at a local girls' school, she is at a loss: although she has comparative fr...
View full detailsMrs Halloran has inherited the great Halloran house on the death of her son, much to the disgust of her daughter-in-law, the delight of her wicked ...
View full detailsNiki Jumpei, an amateur entomologist, searches the scorching desert for beetles. As night falls he is forced to seek shelter in an eerie village, h...
View full detailsAs powerful and relevant today as it was on its initial publication, them chronicles the tumultuous lives of a family living on the edge of ruin in...
View full detailsDanny is a paisano, descended from the original Spanish settlers who arrived in Monterey, California, centuries before. He values friendship above ...
View full detailsTrilogy is a collection of three plays by Haresh Sharma that explore the fundamentals of text and realism by scrutinising pressing issues that affe...
View full detailsWritten in 1921, We is set in the One State, where all live for the collective good and individual freedom does not exist. The novel takes the form...
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