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Judy's father, Captain Woolcot, found his vivacious, cheeky daughter impossible - but seven children were...

Meet Ignatius J. Reilly- flatulent, eloquent and pretty much unemployable . . . The ordinary...

Hunter S. Thompson's Kingdom of Fear is the wild and outrageous autobiography from the world's...

The Hell's Angels erupted into 1960s America, paralysing whole towns with fear. Determined to discover...

Donna Tartt's The Secret History is the original American campus novel. When Richard Papen joins...

Gulliver sees life from many different perspectives during the course of his exciting voyages around...

Jonathan Noel, bank security guard, has spent 30 years protecting himself from people and events....

Patrick S skind's Perfume follows the life of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, abandoned at birth in the...

The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea allows us a precious glimpse into a simpler kind of...

Count Dracula's castle is a hellish world where night is day, pleasure is pain and...

Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim...

When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his...

In the din and stink that is Cannery Row a colourful blend of misfits -...

Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become and iconic figure in...

This brutal glimpse of Russia under Stalin shocked the world when it first appeared. Discover...

Victor Frankenstein is obsessed with the secret of resurrecting the dead. But when he makes...

A barbed attack on the British class system, Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first...

William Shakespeare's sonnets are a beautiful expression of a range of human emotions - from...

Arguably William Shakespeare's most influential play, Hamlet portrays a young Prince's dilemma in choosing between...

Sir Ernest Shackleton's South is one of the greatest survival stories of all time. In...

Nausea is both the story of the troubled life of a young writer, Antoine Roquentin,...

Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reason follows two days...

Fifteen-year-old New Yorker Daisy thinks she knows all about love. Her mother died giving birth...

Gordon Comstock loathes dull, middle-class respectability and worship of money. He gives up a 'good...

In A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin's vision of feminine sexuality is...

Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a stunning collection of sexual encounters from the queen...

John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders sees our eponymous hero tackle his first...

Nancy Mitford's Love in a Cold Climate is a wickedly funny satire, brilliantly lampooning upper-class...