Classics and Modern Classics
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Cause for Alarm
Eric Ambler
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
Described by Le Carré as ‘The source on which we all draw’, Ambler’s novels...
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Sword of Bone
Anthony Rhodes
Read more ▸ Order ▸A reissue of Anthony Rhodes’s acclaimed 1942 novel detailing his own wartime experience during the...
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Green Hands
Barbara Whitton
Read more ▸ Order ▸It is 1943, and a month into their service as Land Girls, Bee, Anne and...
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Patrol
Fred Majdalany
Read more ▸ Order ▸He stared desperately into the dark trying to force his eyes to see, so that...
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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis
Kingsley Amis
Read more ▸ Order ▸“Kingsley Amis’s drink writing is better than anybody else’s, ever…” Esquire
Kingsley Amis was one of...
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers, – stern and wild ones, – and...
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Stories of Trees, Woods, and Forests
Various
Read more ▸ Order ▸Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne’s metamorphosis into a...
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A Scandinavian Christmas
Hans Christian Andersen
Read more ▸ Order ▸Festive Tales for a Nordic Noel
Ranging from Hans Christian Anderson to Karl Ove Knausgaard, have...
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Second-Class Citizen
Buchi Emecheta
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Buchi Emecheta was the foremother of black British women’s writing . . . powerful fictions...
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Murder After Christmas
Rupert Latimer
Read more ▸ Order ▸“A war’s on and a murder has been committed-and we sit here talking nonsense about...
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Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
Ernesto Che Guevara
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Powerful and poetic … For anyone interested in the myth of Che Guevara … this...
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Billy Budd, Sailor
Herman Melville
Read more ▸ Order ▸Herman Melville’s final masterpiece, found unpublished on his desk at his death.
Billy Budd, Sailor would emerge,...