Mrs Dalloway
90.00 ₾Virginia Woolf’s modernist masterpiece — a single London day in Clarissa Dalloway’s mind and Septimus Warren Smith’s shattered consciousness. Pioneering stream of consciousness, a meditation on grief, trauma, and social performance, and one of the most extraordinary novels ever written.
Mansfield Park
90.00 ₾Jane Austen’s most challenging and morally serious novel — Fanny Price’s quiet virtue tested against the theatrics and moral failures of Mansfield Park. A deliberate choice of stillness over wit, it raises questions about performance, wealth, and integrity that still generate fierce debate.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
90.00 ₾The twelve original Sherlock Holmes short stories — from A Scandal in Bohemia to The Speckled Band — collected in a beautiful new edition. Conan Doyle’s genius created the template for detective fiction and a character whose method of reasoning remains as thrilling as ever.
Great Expectations
90.00 ₾Dickens at the height of his powers — Pip’s journey from blacksmith’s boy to gentleman and the discovery of what social aspiration truly costs. Miss Havisham, Magwitch, Estella: characters who live forever in one of literature’s greatest coming-of-age stories.
1984
90.00 ₾George Orwell’s prophetic 1949 masterpiece — Big Brother, doublethink, and Winston Smith’s desperate assertion of individual humanity against totalitarian power. More relevant with every passing decade, and one of the most essential novels ever written.
Persuasion
90.00 ₾Jane Austen’s posthumous masterpiece — the most emotionally mature and moving of her novels, about second chances and recovering what was lost. Anne Elliot and Captain Wentworth’s rediscovery of each other is one of literature’s most quietly devastating love stories.
Sense and Sensibility
90.00 ₾Jane Austen’s brilliant first novel — the Dashwood sisters embodying passion and restraint, and the wisdom required to navigate between them. Sharp, funny, and emotionally true, a portrait of two women navigating social constraint that reveals Austen already in complete command of her gifts.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
90.00 ₾Lewis Carroll’s two immortal books — strange, inventive, simultaneously nonsense and philosophy, social satire and adventure. Alice falling through rabbit holes and mirrors remains one of literature’s most enduring images; the originals are far weirder and more rewarding than any adaptation.
The Great Gatsby
90.00 ₾F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 masterpiece — Jay Gatsby, the American Dream, and the particular glamour and emptiness of a world built on illusion. Prose of extraordinary beauty and one of the century’s most devastating portraits of aspiration and its discontents.
The Summer War
70.00 ₾Naomi Novik returns to the Scholomance universe in a thrilling new story set beyond the school’s walls — exploring conflicts, alliances, and the moral consequences of the world El Higgins fought to change. Essential for fans of the acclaimed trilogy.
Wind/ Pinball Two Novels
46.00 ₾Haruki Murakami’s first two novels — never previously published in English — revealing the earliest expression of the voice that would define one of literature’s most beloved careers. For devoted fans, an essential and revelatory view of a major literary imagination at its very beginning.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Stories
90.00 ₾Stevenson’s 1886 masterpiece alongside his finest short stories — a gothic thriller, a parable of repression, and one of literature’s most resonant metaphors about the divided self. Stranger, darker, and more interesting than any adaptation, the original rewards every reader who returns to it.
Frankenstein
90.00 ₾Mary Shelley’s extraordinary 1818 novel — the story of Victor Frankenstein and his abandoned creation, and one of the most profound meditations on responsibility, loneliness, and the ethics of creation ever written. The novel that invented science fiction remains as urgent as ever.
Wuthering Heights
90.00 ₾Emily Brontë’s strange, powerful 1847 gothic masterpiece — the consuming, ultimately lethal passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, told with remarkable formal sophistication. What seems like passionate romance reveals itself as something darker and more extraordinary with every reading.
Little Women
90.00 ₾Louisa May Alcott’s beloved 1868 novel — Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March navigating girlhood, ambition, and the difficult business of becoming who you want to be. Warm, vivid, and endlessly compelling, a novel that has shaped generations of readers and continues to speak directly to our own times.
Pride and Prejudice
90.00 ₾Jane Austen’s perfect comedy of manners and one of the great love stories ever written — Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, first impressions, and the willingness to be wrong about oneself. Sharp, funny, and absolutely modern, 200 years after it first appeared.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
90.00 ₾Oscar Wilde’s immortal 1890 parable of vanity, corruption, and the price of a soul — Dorian Gray’s portrait ages while he remains beautiful, recording every sin he refuses to acknowledge. Provocative, gothic, and morally complex: one of literature’s most enduring and unsettling masterpieces.
Jane Eyre
90.00 ₾Charlotte Brontë’s immortal 1847 masterpiece — the story of Jane Eyre’s fierce determination to maintain independence and integrity against all Victorian constraint. Passionate, psychologically complex, and absolutely contemporary: a portrait of a woman who refuses to compromise herself for anyone.
Buried Deep and Other Stories
90.00 ₾Naomi Novik’s collected short fiction — fairy tales retold, dark fantasies, and science fiction premises explored with her characteristic wit and compassion. Essential for fans of the Scholomance trilogy and a perfect introduction for new readers to one of fantasy’s most inventive voices.
Culture and Imperialism
50.00 ₾Edward Said’s landmark companion to Orientalism — a groundbreaking analysis of how canonical Western literature is inseparable from the colonial project. Examining Austen, Conrad, and Dickens alongside postcolonial responses, this essential work permanently changes how we read culture and power.
Wolf Hour
46.00 ₾Jo Nesbø’s masterclass in Scandinavian noir — taut, atmospheric, and morally complex. Set in Oslo’s long winter, this thriller confirms his place among the greatest crime writers working today, with landscape and weather as active participants and characters who refuse easy moral categorisation.
The Night House A Spine-Chilling Tale for Fans of Stephen King
46.00 ₾Jo Nesbø’s spine-chilling standalone thriller — a teenage boy, an abandoned house, and a mystery that crosses the boundary between the real and the supernatural. From the master of Scandinavian crime fiction, a gripping novel that keeps you reading through the night.
Beyond the Wand The Magic and Mayhem of Growing Up a Wizard
60.00 ₾Tom Felton’s frank, funny, and touching memoir — the story of growing up as Draco Malfoy and figuring out who you are when a beloved role defines you. Honest about friendship, mental health, and the surreal experience of childhood fame. A delight for Potter fans and beyond.
Homo Criminalis A Criminal History of Humanity
50.00 ₾Mark Galeotti’s sweeping, engaging exploration of crime across human history — from ancient thieves to modern hackers. A leading security expert traces how criminals and the societies that produce them have always shaped each other, in a work that is both serious scholarship and compulsive reading.
Burning Questions Essays and Occasional Pieces 2004-2022
50.00 ₾Margaret Atwood’s wide-ranging essays spanning 2004–2021 — on climate change, authoritarianism, democracy, and the power of storytelling. Sharp, witty, and essential, this collection documents one of literature’s most important voices engaging with the defining questions of our times.
Pure Colour
46.00 ₾Sheila Heti’s luminous, philosophically ambitious novel about grief and what it means to be alive — told partly from inside a leaf. Meditative, essayistic, and genuinely challenging, Pure Colour asks large questions with the open intelligence that makes Heti one of literature’s most distinctive voices.
Death in Her Hands
46.00 ₾An elderly widow discovers a note in the woods naming a dead woman — and becomes consumed by a mystery that may exist only in her own mind. Ottessa Moshfegh’s hypnotic, disturbing novel is a masterclass in unreliable narration and the psychology of isolation.
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
50.00 ₾Ocean Vuong’s extraordinary debut novel — a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read, weaving Vietnam, the immigrant experience, queer identity, and the search for language adequate to love. Prose of rare beauty from one of literature’s most essential new voices.
The Golden Enclaves TikTok Made Me Read It
50.00 ₾The triumphant, emotionally devastating conclusion to Naomi Novik’s acclaimed Scholomance trilogy. With the school destroyed, El faces the wider world — its injustices, its politics, and the deeper costs of survival. A conclusion that is both surprising and fully earned.
The Last Graduate
46.00 ₾The propulsive second novel in Naomi Novik’s acclaimed Scholomance trilogy — dark academia fantasy at its most emotionally intense. El Higgins is learning that survival requires something more dangerous than talent: caring about other people. Original, intelligent, and utterly compelling.
Kitchen Confidential 25th Anniversary Edition
60.00 ₾The book that changed food culture — Anthony Bourdain’s electrifying memoir of life in professional kitchens. Funny, shocking, and alive on every page, Kitchen Confidential remains one of the great American memoirs. Now in a special 25th anniversary edition from Bloomsbury.
Anthony Bourdain’s Les Halles Cookbook 20th Anniversary Edition
140.00 ₾Anthony Bourdain’s definitive guide to classic French brasserie cooking — the food that shaped his professional identity at New York’s Les Halles restaurant. Precise recipes, irreverent voice, and genuine love for honest, abundant cooking. A 20th anniversary edition of a culinary classic.
The Odds of You
50.00 ₾A sparkling opposites-attract romance — electric tension, witty banter, and a love story that feels both inevitable and hard-won. Kate Dramis writes with genuine emotional depth, crafting characters who feel real and a relationship that earns every moment of its satisfying conclusion.
A Book of Days
70.00 ₾Patti Smith’s year-long visual diary — 365 photographs with characteristic meditations on art, memory, and the extraordinary in the everyday. Drawn from her Instagram archive, this intimate visual record is a window into the daily practice of one of our most genuine artistic voices.
Death Takes Me
75.00 ₾International Booker Prize winner Cristina Rivera Garza’s formally daring novel — murders on a Mexican university campus investigated through the logic of poetry. Elliptical, sensory, and profoundly unsettling, a challenge to crime fiction conventions and a confrontation with language and violence.
Bourdain In Stories
60.00 ₾An oral history of Anthony Bourdain assembled from the recollections of chefs, writers, friends, and collaborators — a fuller, more human portrait than any single author could provide. Laurie Woolever’s compilation captures his contradictions and his greatness with honesty and love.
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