Modern Classics
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The Gamekeeper
Barry Hines
Read more ▸ Order ▸George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He...
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R in the Month
Nancy Spain
Read more ▸ Order ▸The oyster party had the kiss of death upon it – even though there were...
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The Chronicles of Amber
Roger Zelazny
Read more ▸ Order ▸Amber is the one real world, casting infinite reflections of itself – Shadow worlds, that...
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Lost Woods
Rachel Carson
Read more ▸ Order ▸‘Our origins are of the earth. And so there is in us a deeply seated...
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The Amis Collection
Kingsley Amis
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸Selected Non-fiction
What advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes...
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Beautiful Star
Yukio Mishima
Read more ▸ Order ▸Beautiful Star is a 1962 tale of family, love, nuclear war and UFOs, and was...
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Cultural Amnesia
Clive James
Read more ▸ Order ▸Notes in the Margin of My Time
A lifetime in the making, Cultural Amnesia is one...
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Dancing Ledge
Derek Jarman
Read more ▸ Order ▸Journals vol. 1
‘What started as a book on the frustration of funding led to the...
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Peter the Great’s African
Alexander Pushkin
Read more ▸ Order ▸Experiments in Prose
Newly translated, unfinished works about power, class conflict, and artistic inspiration by Russia’s...
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Read more ▸ Order ▸Jack Kerouac’s Great American Novel, now in a delightful new Clothbound Classics edition. On the...
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The City & The City
China Mieville
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
Readable both as an allegory of “false consciousness” and as the weirdest of police...
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The Left Hand of Darkness
Ursula K. Le Guin
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Picks
The book in which Le Guin’s abiding interest in how social and political systems...