At The Court Of Chancery The Interminable Suit Of Jarndyce And Jarndyce Becomes The Centre Of A Web Of Relationships At All Levels, From Sir Leicester Dedlock To Jo The Crossing-sweeper, And A Metaphor For The Decay And Corruption At The Heart Of Eng

Evelyn Waugh's wonderful satire, set in 1920's Mayfair and follows the young and bored affluent set.

Part love story and part satire on social aspirations, Thackeray's novel is a riveting piece of Victorian fiction. With masterful precision, he follows the diverging fortunes of two unforgettable heroines: the beautiful, intelligent yet impoverished

Dan Leno, the great music hall comedian, was known in his time as 'the funniest man on earth'. So how did he become involved in the mystery of the 'Limehouse Golem', a diabolical figure responsible for a series of grisly murders in late-victorian

Zadie Smith's debut novel, telling the story of three families from the Second World War to the present day.

Wickedly funny and devastatingly moving, 26a is an extraordinary first novel. Part fairytale, part nightmare, it moves from the mundane to the magical, the particular to the universal with exceptional flair and imagination. It is for anyone who has h

The setting is London, A familiary scene you may think, But the people who inhabit this London are the dispossessed.

This is the UK of the summer of 1977 - in the midst of the Silver Jubilee celebrations, a generation are trying to grow up and discovering the limits of freedom.

Writing on the theme of Hidden London, uncovering little-known aspects of this diverse city.

An epic of suburban life and a debut of staggering scope, intimacy and warmth, "It's All Right Now" is full of funny and profound insights into the human condition together

"Kaitlyn" is the heart-rending story of a family ripped apart by tragedy and reunited by a twist of fate that threatens to destroy all their lives and of a girl who has to choose between everything she has worked for, and the only family

A collection of four novels set in London dealing with themes such as terrorism, property prices, and the media.

A wicked comedy of manners filleting life on a Notting Hill communal garden,

Jonathan Coe extends his range in this magnificent account of a Shropshire family in the last half of the twentieth century.

A literary detective-story featuring a cast of assorted ghosts, spies, poets, bad drivers and hopeless lovers based on "Hamlet".

"Maryam's Maze" represents a unique contribution to the corpus of contemporary Egyptian fiction.

REMEMBER ME...takes one of the oldest stories in the world and gives it renewed, visceral force.

a wonderful combination of mystery, historical intrigue and love, written by an English/Venetian author.

Could it be the end for Sharman? He's back in the UK, trying to help his daughter, but finding himself tangled up with blackmailers, murderers and Russian gangsters...