Modern Classics
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Green Shades: An Anthology of Plants, Gardens and Gardeners
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸Elizabeth Jane Howard, acclaimed author of the Cazalet Chronicles, once said that she would certainly...
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In the Castle of My Skin
George Lamming
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘They won’t know you, the you that’s hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin’
Nine-year-old...
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Unlikely Stories, Mostly
Alasdair Gray
Read more ▸ Order ▸A man finds a bald patch on the back of his head that looks curiously...
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McGrotty and Ludmilla
Alasdair Gray
Read more ▸ Order ▸Mungo McGrotty’s career in Whitehall is going nowhere. But when he finds the mysterious (and...
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Lanark: A Life in Four Books
Alasdair Gray
Read more ▸ Order ▸40th anniversary edition
‘Probably the greatest novel of the century’ ObserverLanark, a modern vision of hell...
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The Fall of Kelvin Walker
Alasdair Gray
Read more ▸ Order ▸It is the Swinging Sixties and Kelvin Walker has moved from Scotland to London to...
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Love Letters: Vita and Virginia
Vita Sackville-West
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to...
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Life for Sale
Yukio Mishima
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Life for sale. Use me as you wish. I am a twenty-seven-year-old male. Discretion guaranteed....
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The True Heart
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Read more ▸ Order ▸Sukey Bond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is sent to work as a servant at a farm...
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Mr Fortune’s Maggot
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey branch of Lloyds Bank, has found his...
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Dissipatio H.G.: The Vanishing
Guido Morselli
Read more ▸ Order ▸A fantastic and philosophical vision of the apocalypse by one of the most striking Italian...
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Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
Barbara Comyns
Read more ▸ Order ▸That evening the baker’s wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown....