The classic novel of the London Blitz, Darkness Falls from the Air captures the chaos, absurdity and ultimately the tragedy of life during the bombardment. Bill Sarratt is a civil servant working on the war effort....

The most famous and loved racing story of all time. National Velvet is a classic tale of dreams, ambition and one girl\"s belief in a horse. \"Velvet\"ll sit on a horse like a shadow and breathe her soul into it… I never seen such a creature on a horse.\" Fourteen year old Velvet is mad about horses....

A glorious new edition of Robin Jarvis\"s classic and the inspiration for The Power of Dark and its sequels. Contains bonus material specially produced for this Modern Classics title. When orphans Ben and Jennet arrive in the seaside town of Whitby to stay with Alice Boston, they have no idea what to expect....

The classic evocation of the lost world of American boxing\"s heyday Take a ringside seat next to A. J. Liebling at some of the greatest fights in history. Here is Joe Louis\"s devastating final match; Sugar Ray Robinson\"s dramatic comeback; and Rocky Marciano\"s rise to heavyweight glory....

The first of the defeated kites whirled out of control. They fell from the sky like shooting stars with brilliant, rippling tails, showering the neighbourhood. Amir and Hassan grow up together in Kabul....

The god touches his finger to the arrow\"s fletching. Then he breathes, a puff of air – as if to send dandelions flying, to push toy boats over water. And the arrow flies, straight and silent, in a curving, downward arc towards Achilles\" back. Greece in the age of heroes....

Although the Cleves generally revelled in every detail of their family history, the events of \"the terrible Mother\"s Day\" were never, ever discussed. On that day, nine-year-old Robin Cleves, loved by all for his whims and peculiarities,......

A beautiful new limited edition paperback of Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, published as part of the Bloomsbury Modern Classics list The woman within the mirror drew nearer. For a moment she appeared directly behind it and they could see the......

Ijon Tichy, Lem\"s Candide of the Cosmos, encounters bizarre civilizations and creatures in space that serve to satirize science, the rational mind, theology, and other icons of human pride. Line drawings by the Author....

London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of Earls Court, George Harvey Bone is pursuing a helpless infatuation. Netta is cool, contemptuous and hopelessly desirable to George. George is adrift in a drunken hell, except in his \\\"dead\\\" moments, when something goes click in his head and he realizes, without a doubt, that he must kill her......

Anna of the Five Towns is a novel by Arnold Bennett, first published in 1902 and one of his best-known works. The plot centres on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England. Her activities are strictly controlled by the Methodist church....

Paris before 1914 - the artistic capital of the world - Picasso, Apollinaire, Matisse, Braque, they all knew Gertrude Stein and visited the atelier at 27 Rue de Fleurus. The War is a hilariously depicted interlude of ambulance driving in a model \\\"T\\\" Ford....

Bigger Thomas, sullen young black boy, has to die in the electric chair before he can feel alive. He has to kill before he finds a reason to live - kill the only people who had ever reached for his lost soul, a rich white girl who believed in equality and a poor black girl who accepted that there was none....

In a small town in the American South, four men, young and old, consider their pasts and their futures. J.T.Malone, a lonely middle-aged drugstore owner, discovers he is dying and tries to atone for his misspent life....

Harper Lee\'s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South - and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred....