A profound and very human account of the early years of the war, told from the perspective of a father rather than combatants, but no less revealing. Mr Britling lives in the quintessentially English town of Matching's Easy in Essex. He is a great...

Shipwrecked on an unchartered island, the Swiss Family Robinson – mother, father and four young boys – make the most of their predicament, adapting to the island and turning the absence of civilization to their advantage. Through perseverance, hard w...

Not for sale in Estonia! First published in French in 1983, "The Cathedral of Mist" is a collection of stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists: distilled tales of distant journeys, buried memories and impossible architectu...

Horror hides behind an attractive face in "The Picture of Dorian Gray", Oscar Wilde's tale of a notorious Victorian libertine and his life of evil excesses. Though Dorian's hedonistic indulgences leave no blemish on his ageless features, the painted...

On August 20, 1940, Marxist philosopher, politician, and revolutionary Leon Trotsky was attacked with an ice axe in his home in Coyoacan, Mexico. He died the next day. In "The Great Prince Died", Bernard Wolfe offers his lyrical, fictionalized acco...

In the wildly entertaining novel "The Blue Soda Siphon", the narrator unexpectedly finds himself back in the world of his childhood: Switzerland in the 1940s. He returns to his childhood home to find his parents frantic because their son is missing....

It's Switzerland in the 1920s when the two lovers first meet. She is young, beautiful, and rich. In contrast, he can barely support himself and is interested only in music. By the end of their lives, he is a famous conductor and the richest man in th...

One hundred years after his death, Tolstoy still inspires controversy with his notoriously complex narrative strategies. This book explores how and why Tolstoy has mystified interpreters and offers a look at his most famous works of fiction.

Parents, teachers, librarians and youngsters will welcome four new superb, unabridged editions of timeless children's favourites – complete with artwork by Scott McKowen. Each book features extraordinary jacket art, detailed spot illustrations, a thr...

Izaak Walton (1593-1683) is best known for his graceful, lucid if not always practical book "The Compleat Angler". It has stayed in print since it first appeared in 1653. More than just a writer of devout pastoral, Walton is one of the fathers of mo...