Weltliteratur & Klassiker

New World, New Love

Rosalind Laker

Brought to Book

Anthea Fraser

Seraphita

Honore de Balzac / David Blow / Clara Bell

The story revolves round the angelic and mysterious hermaphrodite Seraphita who seems to inspire love in all she meets. One of Balzac's most unusual novels which will appeal to lovers of the m...

Another Gulmohar Tree

Aamer Hussein

Usman is visiting post-war London from Pakistan when he meets a young aspiring artist called Lydia who has, like him, come out of an unhappy marriage. Just as the lonely strangers' friendship ...

Scéalta

The short story is one of Ireland's national treasures, and within these pages are some of its finest practitioners — from such established names as Julia O'Faolain, Claire Keegan and Ch...

Tragedy and Triumph

Kathrin Rudland

Truman Haden is just ten years old the night his childhood disappears forever. After he is sent to live with his grandfather to escape the ravages of yellow fever that has overtaken his home, Trum...

I Think of You

Soueif Ahdaf Soueif

Birds of the Air

Alice Thomas Ellis

Inn at the Edge of the World

Alice Thomas Ellis

World Apart

Nora Roberts

Dickens' Women

Miriam Margolyes

A captivating portrait of some of Charles Dickens' most memorable female characters presented by popular actress Miriam Margolyes to accompany her hugely successful one-woman show touring the ...

Five Russian Dog Stories

Anton Chekhov / Mikhail Saltykov / Ivan Turgenev

Five Russian Dog Stories presents touching narratives from three giants in Russian literature. Some heart-warming, some tear jerking, none will easily be forgotten. Turgenev's Mumu is rescued ...

The Wreck of the Titan

Morgan Robertson

Once seen as a prediction of the sinking of the Titanic, The Wreck of the Titan was written fourteen years before that ill-fated event of 1912. Now, on the centenary anniversary of the sinking, th...

The Queen's Rivals

Brandy Purdy

As cousins of history's most tempestuous queens, Ladies Jane, Katherine, and Mary Grey were born in an age when all of London lived beneath the Tower's menacing shadow. Tyrannized by Blood...

The Cathedral

Joris-Karl Huysmans / Brendan King

Ahymn to Gothic art and the glories of Chartres Cathedral. This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an att...

One Hundred Strokes of the Brush Before Bed

Melissa P.

One very hot Italian summer, a young woman sits alone in her bedroom and writes in her diary: 'I want love. I want to feel my heart melt. I want to sink into a river of passion.' As the su...

Primos Y Tiranos

José Alberto Alcalde

Fue un acierto de Jos Alberto Alcalde, me adelanto a consignarlo, haber escrito dos semblanzas paralelas, la de Juan Vicente y la de Eustoquio, y ello porque en el folklore hay siempre uno bueno y...

Huckleberry Finn Grows Up

Sam Sackett

With his last adventures officially behind him, Huck Finn has just made up his mind to escape Aunt Sallys wishes for him to get sivilized. Without a second thought, Huck strikes out for the Injun ...

El Zahir

Paulo Coelho

Once Minutos

Paulo Coelho