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Son - Lois Lowryová

The thrilling fourth companion novel to THE GIVER which inspired the dystopian genre and is soon to be a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift…

Tampa - Nutting Alissa

Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But…

The 5th Wave: The Infinite Sea (Book 2) - Rick Yancey

The Infinite Sea is the second book in the phenomenal and bestselling 5th Wave series by award-winning author, Rick Yancey. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, Divergent and The…

The Kill Order - James Dashner

Surviving the apocalypse was hard enough, but when Mark's communityis attacked by an unknown enemy spreading a deadly virus, he'sdetermined to find out who's responsible before…

The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

During his life, Geoffrey Chaucer (bornc.1340) was courtier, diplomat, revenue collector, administrator, negotiator,overseer of building projects, landowner and knight of the…

Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Considered by many to be Dickens'' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book''s narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with…

Travels with Herodotus - Ryszard Kapuściński

Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays – to India, China and Africa – with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees…

Christmas Books - Charles Dickens

With illustrations by Edward Landseer, Daniel Maclise, Clarkson Stanfield, Frank Stone, Richard Doyle, John Leech and John Tenniel, and with a new Introduction by Cedric Watts,…

Persuasion - Jane Austenová

Introduction and Notes by Elaine Jordan, Reader in Literature, University of Essex.What does persuasion mean - a firm belief, or the action of persuading someone to think…

Dracula - Bram Stoker

Introduction and Notes by Dr David Rogers, Kingston University.''There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron…

Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

''An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world'' The TimesA young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she…

The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry - Rachel Joyceová

''Impossible to put down'' TIMES''Life-affirming delight. A comic pleasure'' WOMAN AND HOME''Profoundly moving'' RICHARD MADELEYOVER 6 MILLION COPIES SOLD. NOW A MAJOR MOVIE…

Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

Edited, Introduced and Annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex.The Wordsworth Classics'' Shakespeare''s Series presents a newly…

Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert

With an Introduction by Roger Clark, University of Kent at Canterbury. Translation by Eleanor Marx-Aveling.Castigated for offending against public decency, Madame Bovary has…

The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

With an Introduction and Notes by Keith Wren. University of Kent at Canterbury.One of the most celebrated and popular historical romances ever written, The Three Musketeers tells…