\"You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business\" As a struggling writer in his twenties, Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society....

\"This is the story of one man who went to Spain with an intellectual sympathy for socialist doctrine and came back......

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others....

\"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.\" The year is 1984 and war and revolution have left the world unrecognisable. Great Britain, now known as Airstrip One, is ruled by the Party, led by Big Brother....

\\\"Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!\\\" Tired of spring cleaning, Mole ventures above ground into the warm sunshine, and happens upon his friend Ratty....

\"Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom\" Sonnets are for romantics, starry-eyed lovers and ardent hearts. And Shakespeare\"s sonnets are the best ever written. But this is why they are also for cynics, for star-crossed lovers and for those who know the anguish of unrequited love....

A favourite childhood classic. What little girl can turn a whole household upside down and breathe new life back into a strange, old manor? The wonderfully contrary, strong-willed, angry, misunderstood Mary Lennox....

They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously leaves home Roberta (everyone calls her Bobbie), Phyllis and Peter must move to a small cottage in the countryside with Mother. It is a bitter blow to leave their London home, but soon they discover the hills and valleys, the canal and of course, the railway....

\"Most generally there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it\" When her father dies, Pollyanna is sent to live with her stern Aunt Polly. She is poor, orphaned and alone but Pollyanna just feels lucky to have an aunt at all....

The new high concept thriller from the author of the word-of-mouth sensation THE ONE - soon to be a Netflix original series. The new Black Mirror-esque thriller from the author of the word-of-mouth sensation THE ONE - soon to be a Netflix original series. Five strangers guard our secrets.Only four can be trusted......

Read the ultimate classic comforting coming of age fantasy story. \"Don\"t you know a sand-fairy when you see one?\" I dare say you have often thought about what you would do if you were granted three wishes....

Black Beauty is the prettiest young horse in the meadows, and spends many happy days under the apple trees with his friends Ginger and Merrylegs. But this easy life comes to an end when Beauty is sold and goes from farm to inn to cabhorse in London, enduring rough treatment from foolish and careless masters....

Solzhenitsyn\"s polemical speeches - a primer for understanding the moral, political vision of the Nobel prize winner \"Can one part of humanity learn from the bitter experience of another or can it not? Is it possible or impossible to warn someone of danger...to assess soberly the worldwide menace that threatens to swallow the whole world?...

Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner lives alone in Raveloe, living only for work and his precious hoard of money. But when his money is stolen and an orphaned child finds her way into his house, Silas is given the chance to transform his life....

The serene and maternal Mrs Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr Ramsay, together with their children and assorted guests, are holidaying on the Isle of Skye....