Authors, A-Z

‘An exquisite writer, wise, compassionate and extremely funny.’—Sunday Telegraph ‘Time, love, age, memory, death, chaos, passion and the spirit of place: this capacious novel wraps its arms effortlessly around all the great themes while entertaining us with a funny and wistful love story ... More

Llewlyn Moss, hunting antelope near the Rio Grande, stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice - leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change... More

It is June, 1962. In a hotel on the Dorset coast, overlooking Chesil Beach, Edward and Florence, who got married that morning, are sitting down to dinner in their room. Neither is entirely able to suppress their anxieties about the wedding night to come ..."On Chesil Beach" is another masterwork fro... More

Published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged was Ayn Rand's greatest achievement and last work of fiction. In this novel she dramatizes her unique philosophy through an intellectual mystery story that integrates ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, politics, economics, and sex. Set in a near-future U.S.A. whose ... More

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An anti-war novel in which Billy Pilgrim, prisoner of war, optometrist and time-traveller is the hero. This is a story of innocence faced with apocalypse.... More

Howard Roark is an architect whose genius and integrity will not be comprised. He has ideas that work against conventional standards.... More

Winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature ‘Perhaps the greatest revelation in the Spanish language since the Don Quixote of Cervantes.’ —Pablo Neruda ‘An extraordinary novel, a work of obsessional originality...García Márquez’s hypnotic history of his Buendías fam... More

A magnificent drama of vengeance, infidelity, and retribution, "Anna Karenina portrays the moving story of people whose emotions conflict with the dominant social mores of their time. Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to ... More

Catch-22 is like no other novel we have ever read. It has its own style, its own rationale, its own extraordinary character. It moves back and forth from hilarity to horror. It is outrageously funny and strangely affecting. National ads/media."Catch-22" is like no other novel. It is one of the funni... More

Joseph Heller was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York. He served as a bombardier in the Second World War, afterwards attending the colleges of New York University and Columbia University and then Oxford, the last on a Fullbright scholarship. He then taught for two years at Pennsylvania State Universi... More

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American civil war, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historiacl epic is and unforgottable tale of love and loss.... More

Beloved by generations of fans, Mitchell's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Civil War and its aftermath--the basis of one of the most famous films of all time--is back in this stunning new package with a new Preface by bestselling author Pat Conroy.Margaret Mitchell's epic novel of love and war w... More

From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion.Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: a portrait of a marriage-and a life, in good times and bad-that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. Several days... More

The Prophet is his mystical and powerful work, and is illustrated with the author's own enchanting drawings.Born in 1883 in Bisharri, Lebanon, Gibran emigrated to the United States, settling first in Boston and later in New York.The work of Kahlil Gibran, poet and philosopher, has been translated in... More

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2006‘Kiran Desai is a terrific writer’ —Salman RushdieIn a crumbling, isolated house at the foot of Mount Kanchenjunga lives and embittered judge who wants only to retire in peace from a world he has found too messy for justice, when his orp... More