As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning
£9.99It was 1934 when Laurie Lee left his home to tramp through Spain. This first book of Lee’s autobiography paints a lyrical picture of a beautiful and violent country that was to involve him inextricably.
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Night At The Crossroads
£6.99Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for seventeen hours without a confession. He’s either innocent or a very good liar. So why was the body of a diamond merchant found at his isolated mansion? Why is his sister always shut away in her room? And why does everyone at Three Widows Crossroads have something to hide?
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Burmese Days
£8.99When Flory, a white timber merchant, befriends Indian Dr Veraswami, he defies this orthodoxy. The doctor is in danger: U Po Kyin, a corrupt magistrate, is plotting his downfall. The only thing that can save him is membership of the all-white Club, and Flory can help.
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Clockwork Orange
£8.99In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, 15 year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him – but at what cost?
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Autobiography
£30.00It has been said ‘Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status that Morrissey has reached in his lifetime’. This title covers his life from birth until the present day.
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Night Manager
£8.99Jonathan Pine agrees to stand up and be counted in the fight against a heart of darkness – the unholy alliance between the intelligence community and the secret arms trade. From the cliffs of west Cornwall via the Caribbean to the post-Noriega Panama, Pine chases his quarry – the worst man in the world.
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The Outsider
£9.99Set in Camus’ native Algeria, this story centres around Meursault. The young French-Algerian leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life until his involvment in a violent incident calls into question the fundamental values of society.
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Bonjour Tristesse & A Certain Smile
£8.99‘Bonjour Tristesse’ tells the story of Cécile, who leads a carefree life with her widowed father and his young mistresses until he decides to remarry – with devastating consequences. This volume also includes ‘A Certain Smile’, a novella depicting a love triangle between a Parisian student and a married couple.
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Animal Farm
£7.99Having got rid of their human masters, the animals of Manor Farm look forward to a life of freedom and plenty. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite emerges and the other animals discover that they are not as equal as they thought.
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Homage to Catalonia
£7.99Following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War, chronicled in Homage to Catalonia, the author brings the force of his humanity, passion and clarity, describing with bitter intensity the bright hopes and cynical betrayals of that chaotic episode: the revolutionary euphoria of Barcelona, and more.
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Down and Out in Paris and London
£7.99Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties, this book documents his ‘first contact with poverty’: sleeping in bug-infested hostels, working as a dishwasher in Paris, surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, living alongside tramps.
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Wuthering Heights
£9.99At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff – recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.