Elizabeth Morison is an ordinary woman. Yet, to eight-year-old Bunny, his mother is the centre of his universe. To Robert, her elder son, she is someone he must protect against the dangers of the outside world. And to her husband, James, she is the foundation on which his family rests and life without her is unimaginable....

A majestic tale, rich in allegory, wit and philosophy; another masterpiece from the Nobel prize-winning novelist Jose Saramago. What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating Spain and Portugal from the rest of Europe? In Saramago\"s fable, a new island is sent spinning through the ocean like a great stone raft....

Kafka Tamura runs away from home at fifteen, under the shadow of his father\"s dark prophesy. The aging Nakata, tracker of lost cats, who never recovered from a bizarre childhood affliction, finds his pleasantly simplified life suddenly turned upside down....

\"Wildly original, morose, uproarious... It is also one of the funniest books ever written\" Susan Sontag A naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small town that has reportedly lost its faith. The church is boarded up and the errant pastor lives with a woman who is not his wife....

A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness\"s masterpiece Late one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village, a penniless woman arrives by boat. She comes with her daughter, the young but gutsy Salka Valka....

On a property in New South Wales, a man named Holland lives with his daughter, Ellen. As years pass and Ellen grows into a beautiful young woman, her father announces his decision: she will marry the first man who can name all the eucalypts, down to the last tree....

Discover this selection of the best of Dickens\" Christmas stories and writings in one beautiful gift edition. The ultimate Christmas present....

\"Delightful... Her characters are, as always, wonderfully imperfect\" New York Review of Books Alan has changed because he\"s injured his back. Pain has altered his appearance and made him glum, demanding and resentful. His wife Jane has to do everything for him - fetching, carrying, shopping, cooking, even dressing and undressing him....

\"A brilliant and seemingly effortless accomplishment...steady uninterrupted delight\" Sunday Telegraph Faculty wife Emily Stockwell Turner is beautiful, rich, and principled. However, five years in a marriage devoid of passion is enough to propel Emmy, despite her principles, into an affair with a silver-tongued self-confessed libertine....

\"Marvellous entertainment\" Sunday Times Just married and newly arrived in Los Angeles are Paul and Katherine Cattleman. Paul responds immediately to the sunny, sprawling cosmopolitan city but to Katherine the main impression is of dirt and smog....

Brian and Erica Tate appear to have every advantage in life: academic careers, two children, nice friends and money. But when Brian begins an affair with one of his students the disintegration of their lives is swift and shocking....

\"If you\"re coming to Lurie for the first time, you must begin with the Pulitzer Prize-winning Foreign Affairs\" Guardian Vinnie Miner is an American professor of children\"s literature on her way to London for six months of research. Settling into her aeroplane seat she finds herself accosted by Chuck, a brash engineer wearing cowboy boots....

Discover one of Twentieth-Century Russia\"s most lauded lost classics, now in a remarakble new translation. \"Outstanding......

The classic translation of Kafka\"s great work of psychological horror \"It is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary\" Rediscover Kafka\"s classic work of psychological horror. The Trial is the terrifying tale of Joseph K....

F. Scott Fitzgerald was an American author whose works became the most famous of the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald’s most famous novel is The Great Gatsby which has been made into 5 different films spanning from 1926 to the upcoming film in 2013. Upon......