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WHO MOVED MY CHEESE (Paperback)
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With over 2.5 million copies sold worldwide, Who Moved My Cheese? is a simple parable that reveals profound truths It is the amusing and enlightening story of four characters who live in a maze ...
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THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (Paperback)
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Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when...
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THE HANDMAID'S TALE (Paperback)
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NOW A SMASH-HIT CHANNEL 4 TV SERIESThe Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of ra...
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OF MICE AND MEN (Paperback)
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Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Event...
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Paperback)
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Fading southern belle Blanche Dubois depends on the kindness of strangers and is adrift in the modern world. When she arrives to stay with her sister Stella in a crowded, boisterous corner of New Or...
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BLOOD BROTHERS (Paperback)
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Twin brothers are seperated at birth because their mother cannot afford to keep them both. She gives one of them away to wealthy Mrs Lyons and they grow up as friends, in ignorance of their fraterni...
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LORD OF THE FLIES (Paperback)
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A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued.
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NEVER LET ME GO (Paperback)
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In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England.
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ROMEO AND JULIET (Paperback)
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Love, sex and death are the components in this story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love, high drama, low comedy and...
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PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (Paperback)
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The garrulous and empty-headed Mrs Bennet has only one aim - that of finding a good match for each of her five daughters. In this, she is mocked by her cynical and indolent husband. This is an ironi...
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MACBETH (Paperback)
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Encompasses witchcraft, bloody murder, and ghostly apparitions. This work tells the tragedy of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonabl...
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THE GREAT GATSBY (Paperback)
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A summary of the "roaring twenties", and a expose of the "Jazz Age", this book, through the narration of Nick Carraway, takes the reader into the world of the mansions which lined the Long Island sh...
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A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Paperback)
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Ebenezer Scrooge is a miserly old skinflint. He hates everyone, especially children. But at Christmas three ghosts come to visit him, scare him into mending his ways, and he finds, as he celebrates ...
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THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES & THE VALLEY OF FEAR (Paperback)
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The Hound of the Baskervilles features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challenging case. The book also features Doyles's Last Holmes novel, The Valley of Fear, which pro...
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TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Paperback)
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Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, this work explores with humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the thirties.
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THINGS FALL APART (Paperback)
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Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsi...
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THE CRUCIBLE (Paperback)
A Play in Four Acts
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Shows how the small city of Salem is stirred into madness by superstition, paranoia and malice, culminating in a violent climax, is a savage attack on the evils of mindless persecution and the terri...
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JANE EYRE (Paperback)
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Tells the story of orphaned Jane Eyre, who grows up in the home of her heartless aunt, enduring loneliness and cruelty. This troubled childhood strengthens Jane's natural independence and spirit - w...
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NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (Paperback)
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Hidden away in the Record Department of the Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party. Yet he inwardly rebels against the totalitarian world he lives in, whic...
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LORD OF THE FLIES (Paperback)
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First published in 1954, Lord of the Flies is now recognised as a classic, one of the most celebrated and widely read of modern novels. In compiling the notes they have borne in mind the needs of yo...
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