Selected Short Stories
61.50 ₾Selected Short Stories by Honoré de Balzac (Penguin Classics) — an ideal introduction to the creator of the Comédie Humaine. These stories demonstrate Balzac’s appetite for social detail and psychological insight. Includes ‘Sarrasine’, the story at the centre of Barthes’s famous analysis S/Z. Translated by Sylvia Raphael.
The Monk
61.50 ₾The Monk by Matthew Lewis (Penguin Classics) — the most extreme and compelling of the original Gothic novels, written when Lewis was nineteen. The saintly monk Ambrosio’s catastrophic fall through the full catalogue of Gothic transgression scandalised readers in 1796 and still fascinates. Essential Gothic literature.
The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
56.60 ₾The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche (Vintage) — the Apollonian-Dionysian distinction explained and the cultural case against Wagner made. Two essential works in the philosophy of art, in Walter Kaufmann’s standard translation.
Don Juan
61.50 ₾Don Juan by Lord Byron (Penguin Classics) — widely regarded as his masterpiece and one of the great poems in English. A vast, exuberant comic epic blending adventure, romance, and savage satire, left unfinished at his death in 1824. Irresistible and inexhaustible.
Selected Poems
61.50 ₾Selected Poems by Lord Byron (Penguin Classics) — essential Byron, from the early poems that made him famous to the mature brilliance of Don Juan. Includes ‘Childe Harold’, the Hebrew Melodies, and key passages from his comic masterpiece. The ideal introduction to one of Romanticism’s most dazzling voices.
Selected Poems
61.50 ₾Selected Poems by John Keats (Penguin Classics) — the great odes, narrative poems, and celebrated lyrics in a compact annotated edition. The ideal introduction to one of the supreme poets in the English tradition. Edited by John Barnard, with full scholarly notes.
The Complete Poems
73.80 ₾The Complete Poems by Thomas Wyatt (Penguin Classics) — the entire surviving work of the founder of the English lyric tradition, who introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into English at Henry VIII’s court. Remarkable for sophistication and emotional directness. The standard scholarly edition, edited by R.A. Rebholz.
The Complete Poems
67.70 ₾The Complete Poems by John Keats (Penguin Classics) — the complete poetic achievement of one of the English language’s most beloved poets. Includes the great odes, narrative poems, and lyric poetry, with full scholarly apparatus. Edited by John Barnard — the standard academic text.
The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe 400-1000
110.80 ₾The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham (Penguin) — the definitive account of early medieval Europe, 400–1000 AD. Challenging the ‘Dark Ages’ narrative, Wickham traces six centuries of transformation across post-Roman Europe with scholarly authority and narrative accessibility. Part of the Penguin History of Europe series.
Gulag: A History
73.80 ₾Gulag: A History by Anne Applebaum (Penguin) — the Pulitzer Prize-winning definitive account of the Soviet forced labour camp system. Eighteen million prisoners, millions of deaths — traced from Lenin to Khrushchev with the authority of a historian and the compulsive readability of a journalist. Essential reading.
Going to Meet the Man
56.60 ₾Going to Meet the Man by James Baldwin (Penguin) — his only short story collection. Eight stories examining race, sexuality, and identity with unsurpassed moral clarity, dominated by the extraordinary title story in which Baldwin enters a white Southern deputy’s consciousness with radical empathy. Essential Baldwin.
Nobody Knows My Name
56.60 ₾Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin (Penguin) — an essential essay collection from one of the twentieth century’s greatest prose writers. Moving between Harlem, the American South, and the condition of the Black artist, these early civil rights-era essays crackle with moral intelligence and controlled fury.
The Secret History
73.80 ₾The Secret History by Donna Tartt (Penguin) — the debut novel that invented the dark academic genre. Richard Papen’s entanglement with a secretive group of Greek students at a Vermont college ends in murder. Rich, seductive, and atmospherically perfect — one of the most gripping thrillers of its generation.
Jailbird
56.60 ₾Jailbird by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage) — a darkly comic political novel narrated by minor Watergate figure Walter Starbuck after his prison release. Drawing on American labour history and McCarthyism, it explores political conscience and its costs with Vonnegut’s characteristic blend of tenderness, humour, and anger.
Hocus Pocus
56.60 ₾Hocus Pocus by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage) — narrated by Vietnam veteran and prison warden Eugene Debs Hartke from a prison cell, it is a dark, funny portrait of America in decline. Vonnegut’s compassion, anger, and moral intelligence at full power. Essential late Vonnegut.
Breakfast of Champions
56.60 ₾Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage) — one of the most formally inventive American satirical novels. Vonnegut brings together the unhinged Dwayne Hoover and the sci-fi writer Kilgore Trout in a work illustrated with his own drawings — a devastating, funny critique of consumerism and the stories America tells itself.
The Tennis Partner
56.60 ₾The Tennis Partner by Abraham Verghese (Vintage) — a remarkable memoir about friendship, medicine, and addiction. Verghese’s friendship with David Smith, a brilliant medical student fighting cocaine addiction, is told with clinical precision and emotional intelligence. One of the finest books about addiction in recent American literature.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
56.60 ₾The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon (Vintage) — narrated by Christopher Boone, a fifteen-year-old with extraordinary mathematical ability, as he investigates the murder of his neighbour’s dog. Simultaneously a detective story, a portrait of neurodiversity, and a moving father-son narrative. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
The Story of a Nutcracker
49.20 ₾The Story of a Nutcracker by Alexandre Dumas (Vintage) — his charming retelling of E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Christmas tale that inspired Tchaikovsky’s ballet. Written for his own children, Dumas brings characteristic warmth and narrative pace to Marie’s magical adventures. A delightful festive classic.
The Second Sex
67.70 ₾The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir (Vintage) — the foundational text of modern feminism, first published in 1949. ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman’ — de Beauvoir’s central argument revealed femininity as social construction and permanently transformed thinking about gender. In Borde and Malovany-Chevallier’s landmark translation.
Covering Islam
61.50 ₾Covering Islam by Edward W. Said (Vintage) — the third volume of his landmark trilogy examines how Western media distort their coverage of the Islamic world. Drawing on the Iranian hostage crisis and other events, Said shows how ‘Islam’ functions as a threat-image in Western journalism. First published in 1981 — still urgently relevant.
Bestseller
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
56.60 ₾Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) — Tsukuru, still haunted by his friends’ inexplicable rejection sixteen years earlier, finally seeks the truth. Murakami’s most emotionally direct novel — about friendship, loss, and the wounds that shape a life. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
How Should a Person Be?
56.60 ₾How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti (Vintage) — one of the most original and provocative novels of the twenty-first century. Blurring fiction and autobiography, Sheila pursues the central question through friendship, love, and art with radical candour and considerable humour. A landmark of contemporary autofiction.
Look at the Birdie
56.60 ₾Look at the Birdie by Kurt Vonnegut (Vintage) — fourteen previously unpublished stories discovered after his death. These 1950s tales of postwar American life stand fully alongside his published work: warm, funny, and morally intelligent. A genuine posthumous discovery.
Independent People
61.50 ₾Independent People by Halldór Laxness (Vintage) — the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic masterpiece. The story of the magnificently stubborn crofter Bjartur, who sacrifices everything for independence, is both absurd and devastating: one of world literature’s great portraits of human will. Translated by J.A. Thompson.
The Prince
43.10 ₾The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (Vintage) — the 1513 political masterpiece that inaugurated modern political science. Machiavelli’s stark account of how power is acquired and maintained, separated from conventional morality, remains one of the most famous and influential short texts in the history of ideas.
The Complete Novels
73.80 ₾The Complete Novels by Franz Kafka (Vintage) — The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika in one definitive volume. These three unfinished masterpieces define the Kafkaesque: arbitrary authority, impenetrable bureaucracy, and the individual’s helpless confrontation with the incomprehensible. Essential Kafka.
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail
73.80 ₾The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail (Arrow) — the landmark 1982 speculative history proposing that Jesus survived the crucifixion and that his bloodline was protected through centuries by the Priory of Sion. The inspiration for The Da Vinci Code — one of the most controversial works of popular historical investigation ever written.
As I Lay Dying
56.60 ₾As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (Vintage) — told through fifteen narrators as the Bundren family transports their dead matriarch for burial. A formally brilliant, darkly comic masterpiece of American modernism, written in six weeks with concentrated power. One of literature’s great experiments in narrative voice.
Absalom, Absalom!
56.60 ₾Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner (Vintage) — widely considered his greatest novel. Through multiple overlapping narrators reconstructing the story of the enigmatic Thomas Sutpen, Faulkner creates a devastating meditation on Southern history and the impossibility of knowing the past. A masterwork of world literature.
The Sound and the Fury
56.60 ₾The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (Vintage) — a masterpiece of American modernism. The Compson family’s decline is told through four radically different perspectives, beginning with the fragmented consciousness of Benjy. Technically dazzling, emotionally devastating, and one of the most important American novels ever written.
Bestseller
The Elephant Vanishes
56.60 ₾The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) — seventeen short stories that established his international reputation. The mundane and the surreal coexist with quiet, unsettling force in tales of loneliness, strange encounters, and inexplicable loss. An essential introduction to Murakami’s singular voice.
Bestseller
South of the Border, West of the Sun
49.20 ₾South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) — a quietly devastating novel about the longing that haunts a life. When Hajime is reunited with his childhood love after twenty-five years, his apparently settled existence begins to unravel. Murakami’s most focused exploration of desire and the life unlived. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
Bestseller
Sputnik Sweetheart
56.60 ₾Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami (Vintage) — a haunting short novel of unrequited love and mysterious disappearance. When Sumire vanishes on a Greek island, her friend K’s search opens onto the uncanny distances between even the closest people. Translated by Philip Gabriel.
Cutting for Stone
61.50 ₾Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese (Vintage) — a sweeping, luminous family saga set in an Ethiopian mission hospital. The story of twin brothers born of a vanished surgeon and a nun, unfolding against Ethiopia’s political upheavals. One of the most celebrated debut novels of the twenty-first century.
The Sound of Waves
56.60 ₾The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima (Vintage) — the most lyrical and accessible of his novels. A tender love story set on a small Japanese island, inspired by the ancient Greek romance Daphnis and Chloe, it is suffused with natural beauty and animated by Mishima’s characteristic luminosity. An ideal introduction to one of the twentieth century’s great writers.
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