Modern Classics
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Bear
Marian Engel
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘A strange and wonderful book, plausible as kitchens, but shapely as a folktale, and with...
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Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘This is what literature is meant to be’ Anthony Burgess
‘O what we ben! And what...
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The Medusa Frequency
Russell Hoban
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Sparkles with classical allusions and a wisecracking humour … it is pure joy’ Daily Telegraph
It all...
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The IPCRESS File
Len Deighton
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘A stone-cold Cold War classic’ Toby Litt, Guardian
A high-ranking scientist has been kidnapped. A secret British...
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Horse Under Water
Len Deighton
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘The poet of the spy story’ Sunday Times
A sunken U-Boat has lain undisturbed on the Atlantic...
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Funeral in Berlin
Len Deighton
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘The classic and gripping spy novel of Cold War Berlin’ Guardian
1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous....
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Poison for Teacher
Nancy Spain
Read more ▸ Order ▸Miriam Birdseye, ex-revue star and now professional sleuth, is intrigued when the headmistress of Radcliff...
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Everything Like Before: Stories
Kjell Askildsen
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Askildsen’s dry, absurd humour is not unlike that of Beckett… His short stories are packed...
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Billion-Dollar Brain
Len Deighton
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle’ Sunday Times
‘Worth of Raymond Chandler … intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining’ Sunday Telegraph
Texan billionaire...
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Ripley Under Ground
Patricia Highsmith
Read more ▸ Order ▸“You’re always good on ideas, Tom…”
An American art collector is claiming that the expensive masterpiece...
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Ripley’s Game
Patricia Highsmith
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Marvellously, insanely readable… Highsmith has done it again’ The Times
“There’s no such thing as a perfect...
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Strangers on a Train
Patricia Highsmith
Read more ▸ Order ▸WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAULA HAWKINS, AUTHOR OF GIRL ON A TRAIN
“Hey! Cheeses, what an...