Search Results for ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Novels’ - 72 matches found

A House for Mr.Biswas

A House for Mr.Biswas is V.S. Naipaul's unforgettable third novel.
Born the "wrong way" and thrust into a world that greeted him with little more than a bad omen, Mohun Biswas has spent his 46 years...

The Ascent of Rum Doodle

First published in 1956, The Ascent of Rum Doodle quickly became established as a mountaineering classic. As an outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, many thought...

The Magic Toyshop

Melanie ventures in the midnight garden wearing her mother's wedding dress; having closed herself out of the house, she climbs the apple tree in front of her window in the black of the moon, naked, in...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

The Snows of Kilimanjaro contains some of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular early works of fiction. In all these stories, which are partly autobiographical, men and women of passion live, fight...

A Case of Exploding Mangoes

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
“A Case of Exploding Mangoes” is the first novel from veteran international journalist, Pakistani-born Muhammed Hanif. A lively, irreverent novel, it deals with...

A Fraction of the Whole

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008
From debut novelist Steve Toltz comes a deeply moving but joltingly funny tale of a son’s recollections of his late, lunatic father, the man he hates to love...

A Passage to India

Although younger generations may know David Lean’s 1984 film, E M Forster’s “A Passage to India” remains a masterly, at times compelling snapshot of an era which still has echoes of prejudice with today...

A Winter Book

Following the widely acclaimed and bestselling "The Summer Book", here is "A Winter Book" collection of some of Tove Jansson's best-loved and most famous stories, taking its cue from over five different...

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman” is another collection of beautiful stories from the lyrically unconventional imagination of Haruki Murakami. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, an ice man, as...

Breakfast at Tiffany's

When anyone says “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”, the image of Audrey Hepburn and her undeniable elegance always comes to the fore- even the cover of this edition is adorned with her delicate visage.
Yet as...

Collected African Stories

Stunning new edition of this classic African story collection, by Nobel-Prize winner Doris Lessing.
In this superb volume of African stories, Doris Lessing paints a magnificent portrait of the country...

Dirty Havana Trilogy

“Dirty Havana Trilogy” tells the story of Pedro Juan, an ex-radio journalist who wanders from one odd job to the next, half-disgusted and half-fascinated by his predicament. Working as a garbage-man...

Don Quixote

Widely regarded as the world's first modern novel, and one of the funniest and most tragic books ever written, Don Quixote chronicles the famous picaresque adventures of the noble knight-errant Don...

Half of a Yellow Sun

"Half of a Yellow Sun" is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s second novel; set in 1960s Nigeria, a time of vicious civil war when well over a million people died.
Her three main characters are each drawn into...

Havana Red

WINNER OF THE HAMMETT PRIZE
“Havana Red” is the first of Leonardo Padura’s awesome Havana quartet featuring Inspector Mario Conde; making Padura a Caribbean Ellroy if you will. And like the best of...

Hawksmoor

London in the eighteenth century is a city of extremes: squalor and superstition vie with elegance and enlightenment as the capital's brilliant architect Nicholas Dyer is commissioned to build several...

Hideous Kinky

Two little girls are taken by their feckless young mother to Morocco on a '60s pilgrimage of self-discovery. And while she immerses herself in the Sufi religion, her children seek something more solid...

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

“Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow” is a novel that has been translated into countless different languages, and even made into a film starring Juliette Binoche. Yet despite the film’s release, the text...

On Beauty

Zadie Smith’s wonderful homage to Howard’s End provides plenty of parallels for devotees to spot while remaining greatly enjoyable on its own terms. The action has transferred to New England, with some...

Out Stealing Horses

“Out Stealing Horses” is a beautiful novel, though not in the obvious sense: with its beguiling prose communicating loss and melancholy that even translation cannot tarnish. In 1948, when he is fifteen...