Literature & Fiction
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
This outstanding collection by Pulitzer prize-winning novelist John Cheever show the power and range of one of the finest short story writers of the last century. Stories of love and of squalor, they include masterpieces such as 'The Swimmer' and 'Goodbye, My Brother' and date from the time of his h..
Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran
JOD 23.00
For the first time, all the major works of this beloved writer are gathered together in one hardcover volume. Poet, artist, and mystic, Kahlil Gibran was born in 1883 to a poor Christian family in Lebanon and immigrated to the United States as an adolescent. His masterpiece, The Prophet, a book of ..
Colony
JOD 12.50
A mega bestseller in Sweden ― and winner of two of its biggest literary awards ― Colony is a gripping portrayal of contemporary society and its alternatives. Burnt-out from a demanding job and a bustling life in the city, Emelie has left town to spend a few days in the country. Once there, in the p..
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrima...
JOD 11.00
A mesmerising mystery story about friendship from the internationally bestselling author of Norwegian Wood and 1Q84 Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys were called Akamatsu, meaning ‘red pine’, and Oumi, ‘blue sea’, while the..
Common Reader: First Series
JOD 3.50
In the first volume of her critical essays, Virginia Woolf discusses the greatest authors of the literary canon – Jane Austen, George Eliot and Geoffrey Chaucer among others – with the everyday, ‘common reader’ in mind. With wit and insight, Woolf also revisits classic novels and examines scholarly ..
Complete Ghost Stories
JOD 12.50
The art of telling a ghost story is a refined one and Montague Rhodes James was a master of it. With gentle cunning, he draws the reader into a narrative that at first seems innocuous but which by gentle turns becomes darker and darker until he transfixes you with his prose, creating the most unforg..
Complete Novels: Includes The Trial, Amerika And T...
JOD 19.00
Kafka’s characters are victims of forces beyond their control, estranged and rootless citizens deceived by authoritarian power. Filled with claustrophobic description and existential profundity, Kafka has been compared to a literary Woody Allen. In The Trial Joseph K is relentlessly hunted for a cri..
Complete Works Of William Shakespeare
JOD 24.00
Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth — the works of William Shakespeare still resonate in our imaginations four centuries after they were written. The timeless characters and themes of the Bard’s plays fascinate us with their joys, struggles, and triumphs, and ..
Concerning My Daughter
JOD 11.00
When a mother allows her thirty-something daughter to move into her apartment, she wants for her what many mothers might say they want for their child: a steady income, and, even better, a good husband with a good job with whom to start a family. But when Green turns up with her girlfriend Lane in t..
Confessions of a Domestic Failure
JOD 5.30
JOD 13.10
From the creator of The Honest Toddler comes a fiction debut sure to be a must-read for moms everywhere There are good moms and bad momsand then there are hot-mess moms. Introducing Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who's trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect, Facebook-..
Confessions of a Mask
JOD 12.50
The dawning of a young man's homosexual and sadistic desires A Japanese teenager is overcome with longing for his male classmate. Each night he imagines his body punctured with arrows, like the body of St Sebastian in Guido Reni's painting; the objects of our hero's desire are tortured, killed and ..