Literary

“An insistently metaphysical mind bender”Kofka on the shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a grue some oedipal prophecy or to search for his long-missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who n... More

An eclectic, eccentiric and altogether brain-bending new collection of short stories from the cult Japanese author. A young man accompanies his cousin to the hospital to check an unusual hearing complaint and recalls a story of a woman put to sleep by tiny flies crawling inside her ear; a mirror app... More

Ebenezer Scrooge is a heartless old miser who hates everything, especially Christmas. Then one mysterious Christmas eve, Scrooge is visited by three spirits who take him on a fantastic journey and teach him the true meaning of the season.Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attrac... More

Merry Christmas, Everyone!"Bah!" said Scrooge. "Humbug!" With those famous words unfolds a tale that renews the joy and caring that are Christmas. Whether we read it aloud with our family and friends or open the pages on a chill winter evening to savor the story in solitude, Charles Dickens's A Chri... More

Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through the clever mix of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs, everyone is a happy consumer. Bernard Marx seems alone in his discontent.... More

Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction 2006 and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2005‘Smith demonstrates both an instinctive storytelling talent and a fully fashioned voice that's street-smart and learned, sassy and philosophical all at the same time. A writer of remarkable powers’— The Ne... More

Kundera's tremendously popular classic has been hailed by "Newsweek" as having "raised the novel of ideas to a new level of dreamlike lyricism and emotional intensity". It was also made into a major motion picture starring Daniel Day Lewis and Lena Olin.A young woman in love with a man torn between ... More

Edmond Dantes, a sailor, returns home to Marseilles with the cargo he was assigned to retrieve and news of the death of that ship's captain. After making his report to the boss of the shipping company he is promoted to captain because of his loyalty and perserverance and joins his fiance to plan the... More

In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys are playing in a little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire; one of the boys, Owen Meany, hirts a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen dosen't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen aft... More

India, 1955: as the scars of Partition are just beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured watching the performance of a young man on stage, Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. As a rivalry between them ensues, she w... More

The most keenly awaited book of the year – the brilliant new novel by the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time. George Hall doesn’t understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. ‘The secret of contentment, George felt, lay in ignoring many things complet... More

In Persuasion, Jane Austen's last completed novel, the conventional roles of hero and heroine are reversed and men and women are presented as moral equals.Jane Austen (1775-1817) was born at Stevenson, Hampshire. Author of classics like Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, she is one of... More

This unabridged Austen classic about a woman who casts off a lover because of his lack of wealth and social status features a dynamic cover and a new Introduction and Afterword.When Anne Elliot falls in love with a handsome and charming young man, she must make a wrenching decision. The man she love... More

'Compulsively readable' Daily Telegraph The 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 radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor th... More

The new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of We Need to Talk About Kevin It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irina McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ra... More

'García Márquez has composed a tour de force of moral and emotional complexity, with a low profile, without fireworks'—Angela Carter in the Guardian 'A mesmerizing work...the novel sets out to reconstruct a murder that occurred twenty-seven years before...Márquez's chronicle moves backward... More

A brilliant novel that will take Julian Barnes sales to a new level: his most accessible, most heartfelt novel ever. Arthur and George grow up worlds and miles apart in late nineteenth-century Britain: Arthur in shabby-genteel Edinburgh, George in the vicarage of a small Staffordshire village. Arthu... More

Boisterous, ribald, and ultimately shattering, Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" is the seminal novel of the 1960s that has left an indelible mark on the literature of our time. Here is the unforgettable story of a mental ward and its inhabitants, especially the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratc... More