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One of the most talked about debut novels of all time, ‘White Teeth’ is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing – among many other things – with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tricky way the past has of coming back and biting you on the ankle, it is a life-affirming, riotous must-read of a book.
Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of The Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his flair for spotting ace reporters. Acting on a dinner party tip he feels convinced he has found a chap to cover a little war in Ishmaelia.
Foreshadowing his later detailed accounts of the Soviet prison camp system, the author’s classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes.
‘Goodbye to all That’ is Robert Graves’ marvellously candid self-portrait of his childhood and his experiences as a young officer in the First World War.
Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck’s Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. It tells of the Joad family who travel West in search of the promised land, and find only broken dreams.
Set in the 50 years after the Civil War, this novel tells the story of the Trasks and the Hamiltons. Adam Trask marries Kate. When she abandons him and their twin sons to run an infamous brothel, the family is consumed in a bitter struggle.
Semi-retarded Lennie is lost without his guardian, George, who feels his slow-witted friend has been delivered into his keeping. Bound by their fragile dream of owning land where they will ‘belong’, their paradisial future is soon shattered.
Set in the American South, this is the story of a group of people who have little in common. A young girl, a drunk and a black doctor are drawn to a gentle, sympathetic deaf mute, John Singer, whose presence changes their lives.
The Dharma Bums is the story of a group of men enganged in a passionate search for dharma or truth. Their search takes them to the High Sierras to seek the lesson of solitude. In the end the wild life in San Francisco proves too attractive for them.
In interwar Paris, Marya is trying to make something of her life, but after losing her Polish husband and meeting an English couple reality starts to crumble. This novel was originally published in 1928 under the title Postures.
Immortalised in the film starring Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote’s classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s is full of sharp wit. Its exuberant cast of characters vividly captures the restless, slightly madcap era of early 1940s New York.
The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city’s fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him.
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