Books (fourteen categories) : featured categories
A broad and carefully picked selection of fiction and fact, to which we are constantly adding more titles
Arts, culture, literary scene
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- Christine Franken -...
Christine Franken - A.S.Byatt
A consideration of the work of the novelist and critic A.S. Byatt in the context of contemporary debates about art, authorship, creativity and...Read more - Edith Wharton - The Age of...
Edith Wharton - The Age of Innocence
The text of Edith Wharton's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York is accompanied by necessarily...Read more - Anita Loos - Anita Loos...
Anita Loos - Anita Loos Rediscovered
Anita Loos (1888-1981) was one of Hollywood's most respected and prolific screenwriters, as well as an acclaimed novelist and playwright. This...Read more
Children's books
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- Shirley Hughes - All...
Shirley Hughes - All Shapes and Sizes
A nursery picture book, featuring a lively toddler and her baby brother. It is designed to introduce the concepts of shapes and sizes to young...Read more - Animal Story Book (1914)
Animal Story Book (1914)
- Henry Lawson - Children of...
Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush (Dodo Press)
Classic literature old & new
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- V. Sackville-West - All...
V. Sackville-West - All Passion Spent
Written by the author of ''Orlando'', ''The Edwardians'' and the poem ''The Land'', this novel is a plea for the right of every woman ''simply to...Read more - Arnold Bennett - Anna of...
Arnold Bennett - Anna of the Five Towns
Against a background of life in the Staffordshire Potteries, this is a novel about a gossipy, myopic, savage community and at its heart a young...Read more - A.S. Pushkin - Eugene...
A.S. Pushkin - Eugene Onegin
Eugene Onegin is the master work of the poet whom Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. Set in 1820s imperial Russia, Pushkin's...Read more
Contemporary popular
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- Ruth L. Ozeki - All Over...
Ruth L. Ozeki - All Over Creation
''All Over Creation'' is the second novel by Ruth L. Ozeki. Lloyd Fuller and his Japanese wife, Momoko, have begun to feel the ravages of time....Read more - Carl Bernstein ; Bob...
Carl Bernstein ; Bob Woodward - All the President's Men
The original novel for the film ''All the President's Men'', starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford.Read more - Wilbur Smith - The Angels...
Wilbur Smith - The Angels Weep
An adventurer and his missionary sister establish a legacy that will dominate part of a continent for decades to come, and a soldier meets his...Read more
DIY for artists & writers
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- Making Comics:...
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
Learn How to . . . Choose the right moments to clarify and strengthen your stories. Frame actions and guide your readers' eyes through each comics...Read more - Prudy Taylor Board - 101...
Prudy Taylor Board - 101 Tips on Writing and Selling Your First Novel
- How To Draw And Sell...
How To Draw And Sell Comics: New Edition
Buy How To Draw And Sell Comics: New Edition from HMV.co.uk for only £9.99 delivered! How To Draw And Sell Comics: New Edition is usually...Read more
For adults only
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- Story Of O (+Book)...
Story Of O (+Book) (Limited Edition Box Set)
A young woman learns the pleasure of totally subjugating her body to the man she loves. Based on Pauline Reage's best-selling erotic novel printed...Read more - Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of...
Fanny Hill: Or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
''''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'', better known as ''Fanny Hill'', is one of the most notorious texts in English literature. As recently as...Read more - Lost Girls Collected
Lost Girls Collected
''Can pornography be art? Can an erotic graphic novel have literary merit? Can both men and women enjoy explicit images? Moore and Gebbie set out...Read more
Historical novels
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- Morgan Llywelyn - 1921
Morgan Llywelyn - 1921
The struggle of the Irish people for independence is one of the epic tales of the 20th century. Morgan Llywelyn has chosen it as the subject of...Read more - Allan Massie - Antony
Allan Massie - Antony
Narrated partly by Antony himself as he stands on the verge of ruin, and partly by his Greek secretary Critias, the novel charts Antony's fortunes...Read more - Douglas Monroe - The 21...
Douglas Monroe - The 21 Lessons of Merlyn
For those with an inner drive to touch genuine Druidism -- or who are fascinated by the lore of King Arthur -- this book is a welcome adventure...Read more
Into battle!
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- The Commodore
The Commodore
''Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books...Read more - The Ionian Mission
The Ionian Mission
''Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books...Read more - Master and Commander
Master and Commander
''Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books...Read more
People in context
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- William Gaddis - Agape...
William Gaddis - Agape Agape and Other Writings
Agapc Agape continues Gaddis' career-long reflection via the form of the novel on those aspects of corporate culture that are uniquely destructive...Read more - Denis Johnson - Already...
Denis Johnson - Already Dead
This novel is a comic tour around the mores and manners of contemporary Californian society. Depicting the collapse of the last American frontier,...Read more - Meera Syal - Anita and Me
Meera Syal - Anita and Me
The story of nine-year-old Meena, the daughter of the only Punjabi family in the Midlands' mining village of Tollington. The novel provides a...Read more
Relationships & families
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- Crow Lake
Crow Lake
''Crow Lake is that rare find, a first novel so quietly assured, so compelling, and with an emotional charge so perfectly controlled, that you...Read more - A Crowded Marriage
A Crowded Marriage
''This is the gorgeous new novel from bestselling novelist, Catherine Alliott. There are already three people in Imogen Cameron's marriage -...Read more - The God of Small Things
The God of Small Things
''Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this novel tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana...Read more
Romance
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- Anita Shreve - All He Ever...
Anita Shreve - All He Ever Wanted
A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change...Read more - The Men's Guide to the...
The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom
This is a hilariously page-turning novel from an brilliant new voice in romantic fiction. When aspiring author, Claire St John heads back to Texas...Read more - Pick Me Up
Pick Me Up
A romantic novel set in the glittering New York art world. When Izzy Duncan meets two gorgeous guys in one week through her job at a glitzy uptown...Read more
Sci-Fi and Fantasy
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- Walter Moers - 13.5 Lives...
Walter Moers - 13.5 Lives of Captain Bluebear
A unique novel set in a magnificently rendered imaginary country. Bluebear is a bear with blue fur and 27 lives, 13 1/2 of which he uses up by the...Read more - Arthur C. Clarke - 2061
Arthur C. Clarke - 2061
Arthur C.Clarke's space saga contines in 2061, when an Earth vessel landing on Halley's Comet marks the beginning of another confrontation between...Read more - Witches Abroad
Witches Abroad
''The twelfth Discworld novel — It seemed an easy job . . . After all, how difficult could it be to make sure that a servant girl doesn’ t...Read more
Short story collections
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- Fragile Things
Fragile Things
''A stunning book of short stories by the acclaimed fantasy writer. The distinctive genius of Neil Gaiman has been championed by writers as...Read more - The Complete Short Stories
The Complete Short Stories
''This volume contains the whole of Saki's work - all the short stories, three novels and three plays. Born H.H. Munro in Burma in 1870, Saki was...Read more
Thrillers
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- Claire Kilroy - All Summer
Claire Kilroy - All Summer
Anna Hunt has lost her memory. She is certain of only one thing - that it was she who stole the painting that is now being restored in the...Read more - John Colapinto - About the...
John Colapinto - About the Author
One of the hottest books of 2001- A thriller of plagarism and murder as well as a wickedly funny satire on New York literary world. Cal...Read more - The Curious Incident of...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time
''The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone....Read more
Travel and places
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- Tom Bullough - A
Tom Bullough - A
A novel with 26 chapters from A to Z. A road trip with a difference: an acid factory in South London, six students fleeing towards Hay-on-Wye in...Read more - Istanbul: Memories of a...
Istanbul: Memories of a City
''Turkey's greatest living novelist guides us through the monuments and lost paradises, dilapidated Ottoman villas, back streets and waterways of...Read more - Rebus's Scotland: A...
Rebus's Scotland: A Personal Journey
'''His novels are playing a significant part in redefining Scotland's image of itself in literature' Independent on Sunday In REBUS'S SCOTLAND Ian...Read more
Favorites
Mr.Golightly's Holiday
''This is a beautifully rejacked edition of this wonderful novel from the best-selling author of ''Miss Garnet's Angel'' and ''Instances of the...Read more
Gone With the Windsors
''This is the hilarious and touching novel from Laurie Graham - the fictional diary of the Queen's best friend in pre-war London. Laurie Graham's...Read more
