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Sylvia Plath. Poems selected by Ted Hughes

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical

Leviathan

The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents

The New York Trilogy

In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a

The Brooklyn Follies

The Brooklyn Follies tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double act - one in remission from lung cancer, divorced and

The New York Trilogy

In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

Meet Cordelia Gray: twenty-two, tough, intelligent and now sole inheritor of the Pryde Detective Agency. Her first assignment finds her hired by Sir Ronald Callender

Shroud for a Nightingale

But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills, she is horribly, brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously and

A Mind to Murder

As Dalgliesh probes beneath the apparently unruffled calm of the clinic, he discovers that many an intrigue lies hidden behind the Georgian terrace's unassuming facade.

Never Let Me Go

Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham

My Name is Red

A thrilling murder mystery, My Name is Red is also a stunning meditation on love, artistic devotion and the tensions between East and West.‘Fabulous ...

The Remains of the Day

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside

A Taste for Death

One is Sir Paul Berowne, a baronet and recently resigned Minister of the Crown, the other an alcoholic vagrant. Dalgliesh and his team, set up

Zorba the Greek

His swashbuckling hero has its legions of literary fans across the world and his adventures are as exhilarating and havoc-making now as they were on

In Praise of the Stepmother

In Praise of the Stepmother is a witty and subtle meditation on the mysterious nature of human happiness and the corrupting power of innocence

When We Were Orphans

England 1930s, Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted

Silent House

Her visiting grandchildren are Faruk, a dissipated failed historian his sensitive leftist sister, Nilgun and Metin, a high school student drawn to the fast life

A Certain Justice

Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her

A Certain Justice

Commander Adam Dalgliesh, called in to investigate, finds motives for murder among the clients Venetia has defended, her professional colleagues, her family - even her

The Way to Paradise

'Vargas Llosa's storytelling gifts are pretty much unrivalled, and they don't desert him this time either. His recreation of the tactile, sensuous, brilliant, whiffy details

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Juxtaposing Prague, Geneva, Thailand and the United States, this masterly novel encompasses the extremes of comedy and tragedy, and embraces, it seems, all aspects of

My Name is Red

In Istanbul, in the late 1590s, the Sultan secretly commissions a great book: a celebration of his life and his empire, to be illuminated by

A Strangeness in My Mind

At a family wedding Mevlut catches sight of a girl with whom he falls in love. After a secret courtship of letters passed via his

An artist of the Floating World

1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of WWII, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter