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Vanity Fair

By William Makepeace Thackeray

£5.99 £4.79

The friends Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave Miss Pinkerton’s school together, ready to forge their paths in the tawdry and cut-throat world of the early nineteenth century. The scheming, brilliant and ruthless orphan Becky is better equipped than any to scale the heights of Regency society. Amel…

Call Me Zebra

By Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi

£8.99 £7.19

Winner of The 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction After the death of her father, an exiled Iranian man of letters, the bookish twenty-two-year-old Zebra finds herself alone in New York and decides to retrace the steps of her traumatic flight with her family from their homeland in the 1990s, hoping t…

Plays: Vol 2

By Georg Kaiser

£12.99 £10.39

This second volume of plays by Georg Kaiser contains five plays ranging from his early work through the time of his prolific maturity in the 1920s to his last period as an exile in Switzerland, where he died in 1945. David and Goliath is set in Denmark and deals with the power of money over men. The…

The Life of Rossini

By Stendhal

£16.99 £13.59

Rossini’s success in Italy in the early 1820s was certainly not echoed in France, where he was regarded as “an ill-bred parvenu, whose cheap popularity was an insult to a great musical tradition”. Stendhal was the first of his contemporaries to recognize the genius of this important Italian composer…

Travels in the South of France

By Stendhal

£9.99 £7.99

From his Baker Street apartment, Sherlock Holmes wields his powers of deduction in pursuit of justice and truth, venturing out into foggy Victorian London accompanied by his faithful sidekick Dr Watson. This classic collection of Holmes tales includes many of the detective’s most-loved exploits: Hol…

White Fang

By Jack London

£6.99 £3.50

A rollicking tale of adventure which has enchanted generations of readers since its first appearance in 1906 and become a timeless children’s classic

A Voyage to the Moon

By Cyrano de Bergerac

£5.99 £4.79

In A Voyage to the Moon, the narrator, after an attempt to reach the moon using vials of dewdrops, finally finds himself in what appears to be the Garden of Eden, surrounded by Biblical patriarchs. After falling foul of the prophet Elijah, he soon meets a race who walk on all fours and whose nourish…

Slick

By M.M. Vaughan

£7.99 £6.39

Eric Young is the first child android to be trialled in society, but he doesn’t know that. He does know that he’s just moved to Ashland from London, so it’s important that he makes new friends. Not just any friends, but the right kind – the kind that would be interested in skateboarding and the new…

Beowulf

£7.99 £6.39

Of unknown date, and surviving in a tenth-century manuscript, Beowulf is the tale of a young Geatish hero and his struggle with three deadly foes, beginning with the dread monster Grendel, who has been devouring warriors in the hall of the Danish King in their sleep. The most important Old English p…

Leaves of Grass

By Walt Whitman

£8.99 £7.19

First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman’s lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating at the same time “Nature without c…

The Age of Innocence

By Edith Wharton

£5.99 £3.00

An extraordinarily well-observed dissection of New York’s high society in the 1870s

Pen in Hand

By Tim Parks

£14.99 £11.99

After delighting us with his novels and many volumes of non-fiction, Tim Parks gives us a book to enjoy, savour and, most importantly, reread