Modern Classics
The Color Purple
Alice Walker
The classic, PULITZER PRIZE-winning novel that made Alice Walker a household name.
Set in the deep American South between the wars,...
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess
Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence. He and his gang of friends rob, kill and rape their way through a...
Riddley Walker
Russell Hoban
'Walker is my name and I am the same. Riddley Walker. Walking my riddels where ever theyve took me and...
The Garden of Evening Mists
Tan Twan Eng
Malaya, 1949. After studying law at Cambridge and time spent helping to prosecute Japanese war criminals, Yun Ling Teoh, herself...
Watership Down
Richard Adams
An epic story that has been beloved for generations, Watership Down has become one of the most famous animal stories ever written.
Fiver,...
A Place of Execution
In the Peak District village of Scardale, thirteen-year-old girls didn't just run away. So when Alison Carter vanished in the...
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot
Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offers an idyllic pocket of...
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark
Romantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction. Her glamour, unconventional...
Cloudstreet
Tim Winton
Cloudstreet -- a broken-down house of former glories on the wrong side of the tracks, a place teeming with memories of...
Old Filth
Jane Gardam
Old Filth was a 'child of the raj'. His earliest memories are of his amah, a teenage Malay girl -...
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
When a freak cosmic event renders most of the Earth’s population blind, Bill Masen is one of the lucky few...
Neighbors and Other Stories
Diane Oliver
And she was becoming frightened too, looking at all those white faces pressed against the windowpanes.
One Black family comes under...
Brighton Rock
Graham Greene
Gripping, terrifying, an unputdownable read. Discover Graham Greene's most iconic novel.
A gang war is raging through the dark underworld of...
A Question of Upbringing (A Dance to the Music of Time 1)
Anthony Powell
'He is, as Proust was before him, the great literary chronicler of his culture in his time' - Guardian
A...
Knowledge Of Angels
Jill Paton Walsh
It is, perhaps, the fifteenth century and the ordered tranquillity of a Mediterranean island is about to be shattered by...
The Girl on the Train
Paula Hawkins
Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking...
Spook Street
Mick Herron
Twenty years retired, David Cartwright can still spot when the stoats are on his trail.
Jackson Lamb worked with Cartwright back...
Mountains of the Mind
Robert Macfarlane
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD
Once we thought monsters lived there. In the Enlightenment we scaled them to commune...
