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Raymond Chandler

The Big Sleep

Philip Marlowe is hired by wheelchair-bound General Sternwood to discover who is indulging in some petty blackmail. A weary, old man, Sternwood just wants the problem to go away. But Marlowe finds he has …

Nicole Krauss

History of Love

Nicole Krauss was born in New York in 1974. Her first novel Man Walks into a Room, to be published by Penguin in 2006, was shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award. She lives in Brooklyn.

Philip K. Dick

The Man in the High Castle

'Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.'America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, …

Rock 'n' Roll Christmas: The Absolute Essential 3 CD Collection

Bert Ambrose (1896-1971)

The Essential Collection

W. G. Sebald,

Austerlitz

In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he gro…

Nick Hornby

High Fidelity

Nick Hornby is the author of six bestselling novels: High Fidelity ; About a Boy ; How to be Good ; A Long Way Down ; Juliet, Naked ; and Funny Girl ; as well as a novel for young adults, Slam . His non-f…

Raymond Chandler

The Lady in the Lake

Best-known as the creator of the original private eye, Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888 and died in 1959. Many of his books have been adapted for the screen, and he is widely r…

Jonathan Coe

The Rotters' Club

Niina Ning Zhang proposes a new approach to the count-mass contrast, and the properties and functions of classifiers when they occur with numerals, with various quantifiers, in compounds, and in reduplica…

Barry Hines

A Kestrel for a Knave

Barry Hines was born near Barnsley, Yorkshire, in 1939 and was a promising footballer before taking a teaching qualification at Loughborough. He taught PE in London and in Yorkshire before writing full ti…

The Fugitive Blacksmith and Other Essential Writings by James W.C. Pennington

By the early 1850s, the former slave James W.C. Pennington had become an internationally prominent African American minister, abolitionist and reformer. With its scathing analysis of the chattel system, g…

The Fugitive Blacksmith and Other Essential Writings by James W.C. Pennington

By the early 1850s, the former slave James W.C. Pennington had become an internationally prominent African American minister, abolitionist and reformer. With its scathing analysis of the chattel system, g…