Classics

E. L. Doctorow / Loon Lake

It is the Great Depression of the 1930s, and a passionate young man from Paterson, New Jersey, leaves home to find his fortune. What he finds, on a cold and lonely night in the Adirondack Mountains, is a vision of life so different from his own that it...

Alan Sillitoe / Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Alan Sillitoe's classic novel of the 1950s is a story of timeless significance. The film of the novel, starring Albert Finney, transformed British cinema and was much imitated. Working all day at a lathe leaves Arthur Seaton with energy to spare in...

Charles Bukowski / The Most Beautiful Woman in Town

Surfacing from the literary underground, Bukowski's wild and immortal stories have become cult favourites. This collection of anecdotal short stories demonstrates Bukowski's compelling semi-autobiographical style and his mastery of visceral...

Wendy Cope / Two Cures for Love

The idea for this book grew out of Wendy Cope's experience of meeting her audience, when reading her poems in schools. This is an edition of the poems which identifies the references, verse-forms, contexts and occasions of her work, and which offers...

Neil M. Gunn / The Key of the Chest

When a storm in wrecked on a rocky Highland coast in a wild night, Charlie MacIan drags a drowning seaman out of the pounding waves. The seaman is clinging to a wooden chest. Brought into shelter, he is found to be dead—but was his death accidental? And...

Katy Birchall / Awesomely Austen (Hardback)

A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's classic story, with witty black and white illustrations throughout. Emma Woodhouse is pretty, clever and rich, and sees no reason why she would ever need to get married. But she loves...

Erin McHugh / The 5 Ws WHY? (Hardback)

This series of five books presents a varied, engaging collection of trivia organised around the five classic queries: who, what, when, where and why. Why's That? is the last title in the 5 Ws series. It has the same light-hearted and entertaining...