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Following William Stoner from his decision to quit his agriculture degree in order to study English, through his marriage and fatherhood, to the later stages of his teaching career, John Williams brings to the fore the pursuit of love and fulfilment characteristic of an individual life.

Read F Scott Fitzgerald's classic novel of love, money, revenge and betrayal set in Jazz Age America. In shimmering prose, Fitzgerald shows Gatsby pursue his dream to its tragic conclusion in one of the 20th century's true contenders for the title of 'Great American Novel'.

Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction Xing Li is what some Chinese people call a banana - yellow on the outside and white on the inside. Although born and raised in London, she never feels like she fits in. When her mother dies, she moves with her older brother to live with venomous Grandma, ...

His bestselling novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award and Skios, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

From the author of Waterstones Book Club choice THE LIST OF MY DESIRES, a heart-breaking, heart-warming story about a man who loses everything, then goes out to get it back.

The Pearl is Steinbeck's heartbreaking short parable about wealth and the darkness and evil it can instill in even the most generous of men's hearts.

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 full of hope, but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ...

The sensational debut novel that became a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller and took the world by storm.

Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet.After sixteen-year-old Lydia goes missing and her body turns up in the lake, the police rule it as a suicide. But Lydia's family are determined to search for clues to find out what really happened...

NOW A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERSPublished to coincide with the star-filled BBC production of Blandings, this superb new anthology sees these celebrated stories together for the first time.

Charles Bukowski lays bare Hollywood, revealing the absurdity and egotism behind the glamour

Offers a collection of stories, including "The Canterville Ghost", and "The Happy Prince".

THE NO.1 BESTSELLER!'Riotously funny ... Surrender to laugh out loud humour yet again' Irish Examiner 'If I've learned one thing,' the late, great Father Fehily used to say, 'it's that life, families and rugby balls don't always behave the way you want them to!'Looking at my life, I'd have to say, the ...

Girls meets Kitchen Confidential

A breathtaking tale of family secrets, from the bestselling author of An American Marriage

A classic western from the master of the genre, possibly his most famous.

Hailed as an early and under-appreciated feminist classic, this novel by the youngest Brontë sister was an overnight sensation that scandalized critics with its realistic portrayal of adultery, alcoholism, and marital strife.

In the title tale, the Enlightenment philosopher addresses 18th-century sociopolitical problems in an ancient Babylonian setting. Other stories include "Micromegas," "The World As It Is," "Jeannot and Colin," more.

A collection of stories. Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, it explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as the author's own experiences as a teenager. It features such stories as: "Into the War", "The Avanguardisti in Menton" and "UNPA Nights".