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Despair
Vladimir Nabokov
Extensively revised by Nabokov in 1965–thirty years after its original publication– Despair is the wickedly i
The Tin Drum
Günter Grass
Meet Oskar Matzerath, “the eternal three-year-old drummer.” On the morning of his third birthday, dressed in a
The Triple Mirror of the Self
Zulfikar Ghose
This is a novel by the author of A New History of Torments, The Fiction of Reality and Figures of Enchantment.
Herzog
Saul Bellow
This is the story of Moses Herzog, a great sufferer, joker, mourner, and charmer. Although his life steadily di
The Magic Mountain
Thomas Mann
In this dizzyingly rich novel of ideas, Mann uses a sanatorium in the Swiss Alps, a community devoted exclusive
Homers Daughter
A Novel
Robert Graves
Nausicaa, a Sicilian princess of the eighth century B.C., looks back on the events of her life and tells how sh
Flaubert’s Parrot
Julian Barnes
Flaubert’s Parrot deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of
A Dog’s Heart
Mikhail Bulgakov
Through surreal, often grotesque humour, Bulgakov gives an ingenious new twist to the Frankenstein parable, in
Lotte in Weimar
Thomas Mann
Thomas Mann, fascinated with the concept of genius and with the richness of German culture, found in Johann Wol
A History of the World In 10 and a half Chapters
Julian Barnes
Beginning with an unlikely stowaways account of life on board Noahs Ark, A History of the World in 10½ Chapter
Giles Goat-Boy
The Revised New Syllabus
John Barth
In this outrageously farcical adventure, hero George Giles sets out to conquer the terrible Wescac computer sy
Mother
Maxim Gorky
907. Maxim Gorky, pseudonym of Alexei Maksimovich Peshkov, Soviet novelist, playwright and essayist, who was a
King Jesus
Robert Graves
King Jesus,is one of the most controversial historical novels of all time. In it, Robert Graves has summoned hi
Mother Earth
and other Stories
Boris Pilnyak
Mother Earth
Mahogany
Ryazan apples
Tale of the unextinguished moon
Forest dacha
Bridegroom cometh
Three
Selected Stories
Konstantin Paustovsky
This selection was specially compiled by the author shortly before his death for publication in English. The re
Nausea
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nausea is the story of Antoine Roquentin, a French writer who is horrified at his own existence. In impressioni
Children of the Arbat
Anatoli Rybakov
On a street called the Arbat in Moscows intellectual and artistic center in the 1930s, Sasha, one of a group of
Island
Aldous Huxley
In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has
Chimera
John Barth
By the winner of the National Book Award and bestselling author of The Tidewater Tales, three of the great myth
Heavy Sand
Anatoli Rybakov
Two main parts of Anatoly Rybakov are titled after the writers major novels, Children of the Arbat and Heavy Sa
Titus Alone
Mervyn Peake
Titus, almost 20, flees oppressive Castle Rituals. Lost in a sandstorm, helped by Muzzlehatch owner of travelin
The Coma
Alex Garland
After being attacked on the Underground, Carl awakens from a coma to a life that seems strange and unfamiliar.
Now Remember
Vladimir Nabokov
Memories of a rapturous Russian Childhood. Vladimir Nabokov is one of the giants of twentieth century literatur
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood
And Other Stories
Poppy Z Brite
Contains four short stories from Swamp Foetus:
His Mouth Will Taste of Wormwood, The Sixth Sentinel, Calcutta,
Ada
Or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
Vladimir Nabokov
Published two weeks after his seventieth birthday, Ada, or Ardor is one of Nabokovs greatest masterpieces, the
The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin
Vladimir Voinovich
Ivan Chonkin is a simple, bumbling peasant who has been drafted into the Red Army. Shortly before the outbreak
Dog Years
Günter Grass
A novel set in three parts, beginning in the 1920s and ending in the 1950s, that follows the lives of two frien
Story of My Life
Jay McInerney
In his breathlessly paced new novel Jay McInerney revisits the nocturnal New York of Bright Lights, Big City. A
The Informers
Bret Easton Ellis
Set in Los Angeles, in the recent past. The birthplace and graveyard of American myths and dreams, the city har
The Drought
J G Ballard
Weird and mesmerizingly grotesque, The Drought tells the chilling story of the world on the brink of extinction
My Idea Of Fun
A Cautionary Tale
Will Self
Will Self has established himself as one of the most brilliant, daring, and inventive writers of his generation
Cities of the Red Night
William Burroughs
While young men wage war against an evil empire of zealous mutants, the population of this modern inferno is af
The Road To Los Angeles
John Fante
This novel introduces Fantes alter ego Arturo Bandini who reappears in Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1938), Ask t
The English Patient
Michael Ondaatje
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, Michael Ondaatjes Booker Prize-winning novel traces the inte
Baudolino
Umberto Eco
It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned
Pulse
Julian Barnes
After the best-selling Arthur & George and Nothing to Be Frightened Of, Julian Barnes returns with fourteen sto
Ragtime
E L Doctorow
Published in 1975, Ragtime changed our very concept of what a novel could be. An extraordinary tapestry, Ragtim
Point Counter Point
Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxleys lifelong concern with the dichotomy between passion and reason finds its fullest expression both
The Devils of Loudun
Aldous Huxley
In 1634 Urbain Grandier, a handsome and dissolute priest of the parish of Loudun was tried, tortured and burnt
Eyeless In Gaza
Aldous Huxley
Written at the height of his powers immediately after Brave New World, Aldous Huxleys highly acclaimed Eyeless
House of Dolls
KA-TZETNIK 135633
The novel describes Joy Divisions, which were allegedly groups of Jewish women in the concentration camps durin
The Magus
John Fowles
This daring literary thriller, rich with eroticism and suspense, is one of John Fowles best-loved and bestselli
Iron in the Soul
Jean-Paul Sartre
June 1940 was the summer of defeat for the French soldiers, deserted by their officers, utterly demoralized, aw
Breakfast on Pluto
Patrick McCabe
Breakfast on Pluto became a #1 bestseller in Ireland, stayed on the bestseller list for months, and was nominat
Slaughterhouse-Five
or The Children’s Crusade
Kurt Vonnegut
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, Slaughterhouse-Five, an American clas
bestseller, didactic, film, postmodern, ptsd, satire, ww2
Nova Express
William Burroughs
The Soft Machine introduced us to the conditions of a universe where endemic lusts of the mind and body pray up
Rosemarys Baby
Ira Levin
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse, an ordinary young couple, settle into a New York City apartment, unaware that the e
bestseller, film, horror, popular, satan
The Aristos
John Fowles
Two years after The Collector had brought him international recognition and a year before he published The Magu
aphorism, collection, essays, modern, philosophy, postmodern
Great Apes
Will Self
Fans of Will Selfs satirical fiction and stunning prose will not be disappointed in the latest from the author
Dead Babies
Martin Amis
If the Marquis de Sade were to crash one of P.G. Wodehouses house parties, the chaos might resemble the nightma
London Fields
Martin Amis
London Fields is Amis murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a black hole of s
Ghost of Chance
William S Burroughs
Ghost of Chance is an adventure story set in the jungle of Madagascar and filled with the obsessions that mark
Kingdom Come
J G Ballard
A violent novel filled with insidious twists, Kingdom Come follows the exploits of Richard Pearson, a rebelliou
Empire of the Sun
J G Ballard
Jim is separated from his parents in a world at war. To survive, he must find a deep strength greater than all
Cocaine Nights
J G Ballard
Club Nautico is an exclusive Spanish resort for the rich, retired British. After five people die in an unexplai
Lunar Park
Bret Easton Ellis
Bret Ellis, the narrator of Lunar Park, is a writer whose first novel Less Than Zero catapulted him to internat
Imperial Bedrooms
Bret Easton Ellis
In 1985, Bret Easton Ellis shocked, stunned and disturbed with Less Than Zero, his extraordinarily accomplished
Look at the Harlequins!
Vladimir Nabokov
A dying man cautiously unravels the mysteries of memory and creation. Vadim is a Russian emigre who, like Nabok
Dorian
An Imitation
Will Self
Will Selfs DORIAN is a shameless imitation of Oscar Wildes The Picture of Dorian Gray that reimagines the novel
The Crow Road
Iain Banks
Prentice McHoan has returned to the bosom of his complex but enduring Scottish family. Full of questions about
Complicity
Iain Banks
Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twis
Emerald Germs of Ireland
Patrick McCabe
Pat McNab, driven by rage and despair, goes on a rampage after killing his mother and ends up murdering more th
I, Claudius
From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius
Robert Graves
Into the autobiography of Clau-Clau-Claudius, the pitiful stammerer who was destined to become Emperor in spite
Daniel Martin
John Fowles
Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it
A Maggot
John Fowles
In his prologue, John Fowles tells us that A Maggot began as a vision he had of five travellers riding with mys
Mantissa
John Fowles
In Mantissa (1982), a novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia — and comes to believe that a beautiful fem
The French Lietenants Woman
John Fowles
The scene is the village of Lyme Regis on Dorsets Lyme Bay…the largest bite from the underside of Englands ou
The First Circle
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, The First Circle is the story of the prisoner Gleb Ne
For the Good of the Cause
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Like Solzhenitsyns world famous novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, The First Circle and Cancer Ward
And Quiet Flows the Don
Mikhail Sholokhov
And Quiet Flows the Don or Quietly Flows the Don lit. The Quiet Don) is 4-volume epic novel by Russian writer M
The Zone of Interest
Martin Amis
Once upon a time there was a king, and the king commissioned his favorite wizard to create a magic mirror. This
Super-Cannes
J G Ballard
Eden-Olympia is more than just a multinational business park, it is a virtual city-state in itself, built for t
Hello America
J G Ballard
Following the energy crisis of the late twentieth century, America has been abandoned. Now, a century later, a
The Butcher Boy
Patrick McCabe
This is a precisely crafted, often lyrical, portrait of the descent into madness of a young killer in small-tow
The Life of a Useless Man
Maxim Gorky
This book was begun by Maxim Gorky in 1907, less than two years after the unsuccessful armed rebellion on Blood
Times Arrow
Martin Amis
In Times Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a p
The Burn
Vassily Aksyonov
Aksyonovs magnum opus – and quite something: shaggy, surrealist, knowingly comic, painful, and always utterly c
Night Train
Martin Amis
Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, shes gone from walking a beat, to
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys
Will Self
The New York Times Book Review has called Will Self a defiant satirist with a peculiar mastery of the vocabular
Pompeii
A Novel
Robert Harris
All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empires richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, e
Diary
A Novel
Chuck Palahniuk
Misty Wilmot has had it. Once a promising young artist, shes now stuck on an island ruined by tourism, drinking
Brightness Falls
Jay McInerney
Brightness Falls is the story of Russell and Corrine Calloway. Set against the world of New York publishing, Mc
The Wasp Factory
Iain Banks
Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outside a remote Scottish village. Their life is, to
Yellow Dog
Martin Amis
Explores the complex lives of five very different men, including Xan Meo, a one-time familial paragon who suffe
The Rachel Papers
Martin Amis
In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most nox
A New History of Torments
Zulfikar Ghose
A New History of Torments is a work of extraordinary imaginative scope by a writer at the height of his powers
Doctor Rat
William Kotzwinkle
As the grant-supported, knowledgeable survivor of the most refined scientific experiments, Doctor Rat, Ph.D., d
The White Guard
Mikhail Bulgakov
Although less famous than Mikhail Bulgakovs comic hit, The Master and Margarita, The White Guard is still an en
The Fatal Eggs
Mikhail Bulgakov
As the turbulent years following the Russian revolution of 1917 settle down into a new Soviet reality, the bril
Heavy Water and Other Stories
Martin Amis
In this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern maste
House of Meetings
Martin Amis
An extraordinary novel that ratifies Martin Amis standing as a force unto himself, as The Washington Post has a
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
Vladimir Nabokov
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is a perversely magical literary detective story – subtle, intricate, leading
Cancer Ward
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One of the great allegorical masterpieces of world literature, Cancer Ward is both a deeply compassionate study
Other People
Martin Amis
She wakes in an emergency room in a London hospital, to a voice that tells her: Youre on your own now. Take car
The Sot-Weed Factor
John Barth
Considered by critics to be Barths most distinguished masterpiece, The Sot-Weed Factor has acquired the status
The Soft Machine
William Burroughs
In Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs revealed his genius. In The Soft Machine he begins an adventure that will
One Day In The Life of Ivan Denisovich
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
First published in the Soviet journal Novy Mir in 1962, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich stands as a clas
The Ebony Tower
John Fowles
The Ebony Tower is a series of novellas, rich in imagery, exploring the nature of art. In the title story, a jo
The Collector
John Fowles
Withdrawn, uneducated and unloved, Frederick collects butterflies and takes photographs. He is obsessed with a
Mondo Desperado
Patrick McCabe
From a farmers romance to his skin condition to one mans culinary relationship with Bruce Lee, it all happens i
The Dead School
Patrick McCabe
From the award-winning author of The Butcher Boy comes a new novel of extraordinary power that, according to th
The Book of Dave
Will Self
When cabdriver Dave Rudmans wife of five years deserts him for another man, taking their only child with her, h
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Humbert Humbert – scholar, aesthete and romantic – has fallen completely and utterly in love with Lolita Haze,
Pale Fire
Vladimir Nabokov
The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a
High-Rise
J G Ballard
When a class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, modern elevators become violent battlegrounds and c
Peter The First
Alexey Tolstoy
Here, for the first time, in its final form and in a new translation, is the epic Russian novel which has sold