Modern Classics
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A Man on the Moon
Andrew Chaikin
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This chronicle of the Apollo missions is a genuine epic. Exhaustive but never exhausting,...
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Who Among Us?
Mario Benedetti
Read more ▸ Order ▸Miguel and Alicia fall quietly in love as teenagers, walking back from school together. When...
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A Room of One’s Own
Virginia Woolf
Read more ▸ Order ▸A Room of One’s Own, based on a lecture given at Girton College, Cambridge, is...
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Ragnarok
A.S. Byatt
Read more ▸ Order ▸As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated...
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Mailman
J. Robert Lennon
Read more ▸ Order ▸A blackly comic epic – a voyage through small-town America, and through the interior life...
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The Kites
Romain Gary
Read more ▸ Order ▸A quiet village in Normandy, 1932. Ludo is ten years old and lives with his...
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Dream Angus
Alexander McCall Smith
Read more ▸ Order ▸Dream Angus comes to you at night and bestows dreams. Just the sight of him...
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters; Seymour – an Introduction
J. D. Salinger
Read more ▸ Order ▸A haunting portrait of family tragedy from the acclaimed author of ‘The Catcher in the...
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Ornament and Crime
Adolf Loos
Read more ▸ Order ▸Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism – from one of the great masters of...
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On the End of the World
Joseph Roth
Read more ▸ Order ▸In January 1933, on the very day Hitler seized power in Germany, Joseph Roth fled...
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Franny and Zooey
J. D. Salinger
Read more ▸ Order ▸A sharp and poignant snapshot of the crises of youth – from the acclaimed author...
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For Esme – with Love and Squalor, and Other Stories
J. D. Salinger
Read more ▸ Order ▸A collection of nine exceptional stories from the acclaimed author of ‘The Catcher in the...