Classic Fiction

'Ordinary people harbour the grandest (and most terrible) thoughts in a cosmological fable as disconcerting as it is funny: behind the simplest actions lie visions of worlds in collision' - The Times 'One of the greatest avant-gar

Best Fairy Stories of the World (Marcus Clapham)

A beautiful illustrated edition of Hans Christian Andersen's unique and inventive stories.

Uniquely inventive and vivacious in style and with deep insight into children's points of view, Hans Christian Andersen established a new…

Ten of W. Somerset Maugham's wonderful stories in one collector's volume.

Reading the stories of Somerset Maugham is rather like curling up and up listening to the delicious, risqué tales of an old, dear and rather wicked…

This stunning Oxford Children's Classic edition is the perfect introduction to Black Beauty-the ultimate story of hope.

Through the eyes of Black Beauty, Anna Sewell opens our hearts to the welfare of working animals in this tale of adversity and altruism, featuring illustrations by Cecil Aldin and an afterword by author Lauren St. John

Designed…

Black Beauty (Sewell, A.)

Dickens’ famous satirical novel about family greed and corruption in the British court system, with an afterword by David Stuart Davies and original illustrations by H. K. Browne.

Complete and unabridged. Bleak House is not…

Born Free (Joy Adamson)

Botchan (Natsume Soseki)

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley's 1932 dystopian classic Brave New World predicts - with eerie clarity - a terrifying vision of the future, which feels ever closer to our own reality. 'The best science fiction book ever, definitely the most prescie

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouri

Graham Greene’s powerful novel of good, evil and adolescent rebellion.

Pinkie Brown, a neurotic teenage gangster wielding a razor blade and a bottle of sulfuric acid, commits a brutal murder – but it does not go unnoticed.…

Based on his experiences as a policeman in Burma, George Orwell's first novel presents a devastating picture of British colonial rule. It describes corruption and imperial bigotry in a society where, 'after all, natives were nativ