When they buy a 200-year-old farmhouse in the South of France, Peter Mayle and his wife little expect the delights that await them - from six-course lunches and epic games of boule, to encounters with charming but unpredictable builders.
Both witty and affectionate, this is an idyllic portrait of the pleasures of rural life.

This edition includes colour sections, an introduction, a Rethink, a Bronte Information piece, and a discussion on The Landscape of the Book, as well ... more

It tells the story of a young man who goes to the Ukraine in search of the woman who saved his grandfather from the Nazis. He is aided in his quest by a blind old man, a randy guide dog and a very, very bad translator.
It is funny, moving and gripping and we guarantee you won't have read anything quite like it before.

This is Barbara Pym's world at its funniest and most touching.

With honesty and insight Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership, and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive to HIV.
This is a book as refreshing and uplifting as it is moving; a funny and sad and celebratory account of growing up gay.

Burrough's cult classic is a raw, semi-autobiographical account of drug addiction, which outraged America and influenced generations of writers to come. He relates with unflinching realism the highs and lows of dependency: euphoria, hallucinations, ghostly nocturnal wanderings and strange sexual encounters.

Junky is a dark, powerful and mesmerizing account of one man's challenge to turn self-destruction into art.

Merry Go Round by the Sea allows us a precious glimpse into a simpler kind of childhood in a country that no longer exists.