Search Results for ‘Travel Writing & Other Literature’, ‘Novels’ - 75 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, W.E. Bowman's 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...

The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories

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

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, A Fraction of the Whole is a deeply moving but joltingly funny tale of a son’s recollections of his late, lunatic father, the...

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 - a 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 well...

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 Truman Capote's classic tale is adorned with her delicate...

Collected African Stories

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

Death in Breslau

Marek Krajewski’s Death in Breslau is a powerful thriller set in a World War Two city under the control of the Gestapo on the Czechoslovakian border. It is 1933 and the mutilated bodies of a young woman...

Dirty Havana Trilogy

Pedro Juan Gutiérrez's 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...

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 Ellroy...

Hawksmoor

Hawksmoor is one of acclaimed writer Peter Ackroyd's most vivid fictional creations. London in the eighteenth century is a city of extremes: squalor and superstition vie with elegance and enlightenment...

Hideous Kinky

In Esther Freud's 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...

Khaled Hosseini Box Set - SIGNED LIMITED EDITION

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION - ONLY 1500 PRINTED!
Introducing the luxurious limited edition Khaled Hosseini boxed set. Both bestselling novels are cloth-bound, numbered and signed by the author.
In Hosseini...

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Peter Hoeg's Miss Smilla’s Feeling For Snow is a novel that has been translated into countless different languages and has been made into a film starring Juliette Binoche. Yet despite the film’s release...

On Beauty

On Beauty is Zadie Smith’s wonderful homage to Howard’s End and it provides plenty of parallels for devotees to spot while remaining greatly enjoyable on its own terms. The action has transferred to...