Literature & Fiction
Classic Locked Room Mysteries
JOD 13.50
A fascinating collection of ingenious mysteries which all pose the question 'howdunnit?' - 'how was the crime done?' Featuring well-known sleuths from Sherlock Holmes to Father Brown, as well as the less familiar, including Jacques Futrelle's Professor Augustus S. F. X. Van Dusen, in each story the ..
Classic Science Fiction
JOD 15.00
Classic works of speculative fiction from the earliest masters of the genre. Classic Science Fiction includes nine stories from masters of early science fiction: H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Jack London, Fitz James O’Brien, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Stanley G. Wei..
Classic Tales of Science Fiction & Fantasy
JOD 20.00
Long before we ventured into outer space or explored the most remote regions of the planet, writers have spun stories of what might lie in those unknown worlds, or what awaits humanity in the future. Classic Tales of Science Fiction & Fantasy is a collection of ten novels and short stories that blaz..
Classic Works From Women Writers
JOD 20.00
Women writers have been making their voices heard for centuries, but their works were not always taken seriously. Over time, as women gained more social and political freedom, these works have reemerged as subjects that are considered to be worthy of closer study. Classic Works from Women Writers is..
Classical Poems by Arab Women
JOD 15.50
Arab women poets have been around since the earliest of times, yet their diwans (collected poems) were kept in the shadows. Spanning more than 5000 years, from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusian periods, Classical Poems by Arab Women presents rarely seen work by over sixty women writers who boldly r..
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
JOD 11.00
For readers of Modern Lovers and Conversations with Friends, an addictive, humorous, and poignant debut novel about the shock waves caused by one couple's impulsive marriage. ‘A tender, devastating and funny exploration of love and friendship and the yearning for self-evisceration. Coco Mellors is ..
Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition
JOD 10.00
One of Esquire's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time "A brilliant novel.… [A] savage satire on the distortions of the single and collective minds."—New York Times In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central..
Cloud Atlas
JOD 11.00
The narrators hear their echoes in history and change their destinies in ways great and small, in a study of humanity's dangerous will to power. A reluctant voyager crosses the Pacific in 1850. A disinherited composer gatecrashes in between-wars Belgium. A vanity publisher flees gangland creditors. ..
Cold Comfort Farm
JOD 11.00
Sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders- cousin Judith, heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos, preaching fire and damnation; thei..
Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde
JOD 5.00
Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the grieving lyric at the death of his father. The religi..
Collected Stories
JOD 12.50
For the first time all of Bernard MacLaverty’s unforgettable short stories are gathered together, with a new introduction by the author Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big love and loss, separation and violence, death a..
Collected Stories
JOD 16.50
Throughout these seventy-nine stories - love stories, ghost stories, stories of childhood, of English middle-class life in the twenties and thirties, of London during the Blitz - Elizabeth Bowen combines social comedy and reportage, perception and vision in an oeuvre which reveals, as Angus Wilson a..