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In an Argentine prison, the growing friendship between a thirty-seven-year-old homosexual, Molina, and a young Marxist, Valentin, is threatened when police officials start pressuring Molina to spy against Valentin.

Luis Negrón’s debut collection reveals the intimate world of a small community in Puerto Rico joined together by its transgressive sexuality. The writing straddles the shifting line between pure, unadorned storytelling and satire, exploring the sometimes hilarious and sometimes heartbreaking nature ...

A perfect storm of comedic proportions erupts in a DC bookstore over the course of one soggy summer week, punctuated by political turmoil, a celestial event, and a perpetually broken vacuum cleaner.

In 1942 Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. ...

Winston Smith works in the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history to suit the Party. However, he hates the world they have created - one where everyone is under the eye of the omniscient Big Brother.

After Winston finds love with Julia, a young woman who shares his ideals, he risks it all and rebels. But Big Brother is always watching.

Dorothy tries to be a dutiful daughter, but nothing is ever good enough for her clergyman father – no matter how much she does to help him.

After being invited to dinner by Mr Warburton, Dorothy becomes the centre of village gossip. As a result, she suffers from amnesia and embarks on a journey ...

'Four legs good, two legs bad.'

When the animals of Manor Farm overthrow Mr Jones, their drunkard farmer. The pigs (Napoleon and Snowball) mastermind a new regime - where all animals are equal and free.

But as Napoleon and Snowball battle for power, it soon becomes apparent that the pigs secretly believe some animals are more important than others.

Rather than drink and gossip with his hostile English peers at the exclusive European Club, John Flory has embraced Burmese culture.

When his best friend, Dr Veraswami, asks for his help, Flory comes to understand the true extent of the corruption in British-ruled Burma. But the arrival of the beautiful ...

George Bowling leads a dreary life. He is forty-five and a mediocre insurance salesman, husband and father. The most exciting thing in his week is getting some new false teeth.

After he foresees World War II, George decides to escape to the idyllic days of his childhood. He soon discovers that the ...

The Good Soldier is the 1915 novel by the English novelist Ford Madox Ford. Just before World War I The Good Soldier is the tragic tale of Edward Ashbunham and his seemingly perfect marriage. Based loosely on his own personal life and mistakes the novel develops naturally through flashbacks.

Gordon Comstock is fighting against the worship of the so-called ‘money-gods’ – but it is a fight that is making his life miserable and unfulfilling.

After quitting his well-paying job, he spends his days working in a bookshop and writing unsuccessful poetry. And to make matters worse, there ...

Upper-class housewife Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party one June morning, when an encounter with an old suitor makes her question her marriage and brings up thoughts of her past. Meanwhile, veteran Septimus Smith suffers from shell-shock and battles with adjusting to normal life following World War I.

In the sixteenth century, Orlando enjoys life as a nobleman - including a fleeting yet deep love affair with a Russian princess, and an eventful stint in Constantinople as an ambassador. However, one day, Orlando awakes as a woman. She relishes her new life, but everything has irrevocably changed.

After first meeting by the sea as children, the lives of six friends - Bernard, Neville, Louis, Jinny, Susan and Rhoda - intertwine from childhood to middle age. Divided into nine sections, the novel delves into their lives, exposing their achievements and failures as they question the meaning of life itself.

Every summer, the Ramsay family visit their holiday home in Scotland. It is where the children find themselves, and where the intricacies of adult relationships are uncovered. However, just a decade later, the family shatters as they fall under the shadow of war, grief and bitterness.

A party aboard the Euphrosyne bound for South America changes the life of Rachel Vinrace. On her voyage of self-discovery, Rachel asserts her own identity through observing and connecting with the world around her. Rachel falls in love with aspiring writer Terence Hewett before the book's tragic end.

The strangest detective story in the history of music - inspired by a true incident. A world spiralling towards war. A composer descending into madness. And a devoted woman struggling to keep her faith in art and love against all the odds. 1933. Dabbling in the fashionable "Glass Game" - a Ouija board ...

New York Times bestseller The Valley of Amazement is an evocative epic of two women's intertwined fates and their search for identity—from the lavish parlors of Shanghai courtesans to the fog-shrouded mountains of a remote Chinese village Shanghai, 1912. Violet Minturn is the daughter of the American ...

How much would you sacrifice for true love? The second novel in Paullina Simons' stunning End of Forever saga continues the heartbreaking story of Julian and Josephine, and a love that spans lifetimes.