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A Jeeves and Wooster novel The beefy Stilton Cheesewright has drawn Bertie Wooster as red-hot favourite in the Drones club annual darts tournament - which is lucky for Bertie because otherwise Stilton would have beaten him to a pulp and buttered the lawn with him. Stilton does not, after all like men ...

Lucky Jim is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first novel and won the 1955 Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. The novel follows the academic and romantic tribulations of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant history lecturer at an unnamed provincial ...

A haunting collection of stories from an author twice shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.

Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is abandoned on the filthy streets of eighteenth-century Paris as a baby, but grows up to discover he has an extraordinary gift: a sense of smell more powerful than any other human's. Gradually he learns how to exploit this gift in the art of creating the most sublime perfumes ...

A Jeeves and Wooster novel Gussie Fink-Nottle's knowledge of the common newt is unparalleled. Drop him in a pond of newts and his behaviour will be exemplary, but introduce him to a girl and watch him turn pink, yammer, and suddenly stampede for great open spaces. Even with Madeline Bassett, who feels ...

'My only problem with Wodehouse is deciding which of his enchanting books to take to my desert island' Ruth Dudley Edwards

'The most industrious, prolific and beneficent author ever to have sat down, scratched his head and banged out a sentence' Stephen Fry

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'Your tea will be here in a moment, ...

In this seventh installment of the Jeeves series, the unflappable butler once again must apply his cleverness to rescue Bertie Wooster—this time from being arrested, lynched, and engaged by mistake! Chaos ensues when Aunt Dahlia demands that Bertie help dupe an antique dealer into selling her an 18th-century ...

These episodes in the life of amiable dilettante Bertie Wooster see his ingenious valet Jeeves devise one plan after another to help him out of awkward social situations, including avoiding Aunt Agatha's plans to marry him to Honoria Glossop and steering Bingo Little through various romances.

A striking debut set on a West London council estate. This is a collection of short stories about regular men grappling with masculinity.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker prize in 2007 Now a major film directed by Mira Nair and starring Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland - Excuse me, sir, but may I be of assistance? Ah, I see I have alarmed you. Do not be frightened by my beard. I am a lover of America ...So speaks the mysterious stranger ...

The INSTANT Sunday Times Bestseller: 'Emezi is a dream of a writer. My heart soared and shook and panted.' Bolu Babalola

Perfect twins. Perfect victims.

From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration and sacrifice

A brand new collection from the master of the spine-tingling tale

Stunningly honest and bursting with wit, Someday Maybe is the story of grief and resilience that you won't be able to stop talking about

The new novel from the award-winning author of The Marlowe Papers

Girls meets Kitchen Confidential

An unforgettable power ballad to female friendship, set on the thrumming streets of 1990s New York

Timely, raw, shocking, funny: the must-read, state-of-the-nation novel of the year

A stunning new story collection from Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, acclaimed author of Kintu and winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize 2014 and the Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction 2018