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Peter Mayle's A Year in Provence is the much-loved account of an English couple living...

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As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccol Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes...

In these three tales from the first major translation into English of The Arabian Nights...

Life is good for Buck in Santa Clara Valley, where he spends his days eating...

In these haunting reflections, Primo Levi, a chemist by training takes the elements of the...

In this selection of poems covering the period 1972 to 2002. This beautifully elegant volume...

D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover scandalized the world when it was first published in...

Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of Central India,...

Over the course of his short life, John Keats (1795-1821) honed a raw talent into...

'Somebody must have laid false information against Josef K., for he was arrested one morning...

This collection brings together the small proportion of Kafka's works that he thought worthy of...

A twentieth-century Australian classic, The Well is a haunting and wryly humorous tale of memory,...

Martyrs to hypochondria and general seediness, J. and his friends George and Harris decide that...

Lou Connor wants to escape her emotionally crass family and life of poverty, so she...

First published in 1964 The Lucky Country caused a sensation. The book was a wake-up...

Nick Hornby's High Fidelity is the brilliant story of one man's journey of self-discovery. When...

For many people watching football is mere entertainment; to some it's more like a ritual;...

As life slips away, Gabriel looks back over his brief twenty years that have been...

The year is 1977, and Adrian is nine. He lives with his gran and his...

Brian Greene'sThe Fabric of the Cosmosis an astonishing grand tour of the universe and the...

Regarded as little more than a stammering fool, the nobleman Claudius quietly survives the intrigues,...

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my...

Beat movement icon and visionary poet, Allen Ginsberg broke boundaries with his fearless, pyrotechnic verse....

First published in the 1920's, The Prophet, Gibran's hugely popular guide to living, has sold...

When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is...

Alex Garland's The Beach was published to immediate acclaim, and has since become a bestselling...

Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Love in the Time of Cholera is a brilliantly crafted, beautifully written...