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Madame Bovary

Gustave Flaubert

‘She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.’ This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a dull country doctor, she dreams for…

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A Farewell to Arms

Ernest Hemingway

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the ‘war to end all wars’. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experience…

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The Master and Margarita

Mikhail Bulgakov

The devil makes a personal appearance in Moscow accompanied by various demons, including a naked girl and a huge black cat. When he leaves, the asylums are full and the…

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The Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood

Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She has only one function- to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent…

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The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell

Aldous Huxley

In 1953, in the presence of an investigator, Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gramme of mescalin, sat down and waited to see what would happen. When he opened his…

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The Bonfire of the Vanities

Tom Wolfe

Sherman McCoy is a WASP, bond trader and self-appointed ‘Master of the Universe’. His spectacular fall begins the moment he is involved in a hit-and-run accident in the Bronx. This…

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Raymond Carver

This powerful collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time, was the first…

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Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham

Of Human Bondage is the first and most autobiographical of Maugham’s masterpieces. It is the story of Philip Carey, an orphan eager for life, love and adventure. After a few…

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Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut

In a frolic of cartoon and comic outbursts against rule and reason, a miraculous weaving of science fiction, memoir, parable, fairy tale and farce, Kurt Vonnegut attacks the whole spectrum…

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Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is a warm, witty and daring novel that gives voice to irrepressible desire. Meet ten of literature’s most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits…

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I Capture the Castle

Dodie Smith

‘I write this sitting in the kitchen sink…’ This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a…

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The Heart of the Matter

Graham Greene

Scobie, a police officer serving in a war-time West African state, is distrusted, being scrupulously honest and immune to bribery. But then he falls in love, and in doing so…

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Blindness

Jose Saramago

A driver waiting at traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading…

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As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother’s coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi…

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The Rings of Saturn

W. G. Sebald

A record of a journey on foot through coastal East Anglia.

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Stoner: A Novel

John Williams

William Stoner enters the University of Missouri at nineteen to study agriculture. A seminar on English literature changes his life, and he never returns to work on his father’s farm…

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Gigi

Colette

‘He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!’ This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris…

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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Haruki Murakami

Toru Okada’s cat has disappeared and this has unsettled his wife, who is herself growing more distant every day. Then there are the increasingly explicit telephone calls he has started…

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The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende

As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her…

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Revolutionary Road

Richard Yates

Hailed as a masterpiece from its first publication, Revolutionary Road is the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright young couple who are bored by the banalities of suburban…

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To Kill A Mockingbird

Harper Lee

‘Someone rare has written this very fine novel, a write with the liveliest sense of life and the warmest, most authentic humor. A touching book; and so funny, so likeable’…

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The Swimming-Pool Library

Alan Hollinghurst

Young, gay, William Beckwith spends his time, and his trust fund, idly cruising London for erotic encounters. When he saves the life of an elderly man in a public convenience…

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte

When she finds work as a governess at Thornfield Hall it seems Jane has finally met her match in the unconventional Mr Rochester. But as her feelings for Mr Rochester…

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Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Anne Tyler

When Pearl Tull’s husband, Beck, abandons her she pours her energies into preserving normality. Now, as Pearl lies on her deathbed, the impact of Beck’s abrupt departure unspools: on Cody…

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Beloved

Toni Morrison

Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is…

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Vintage Classics

Madame Bovary

A Farewell to Arms

The Master and Margarita

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Doors of Perception: And Heaven and Hell

The Bonfire of the Vanities

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Of Human Bondage

Breakfast of Champions

Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit

I Capture the Castle

The Heart of the Matter

Blindness

As I Lay Dying

The Rings of Saturn

Stoner: A Novel

Gigi

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

The House of the Spirits

Revolutionary Road

To Kill A Mockingbird

The Swimming-Pool Library

Jane Eyre

Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Beloved