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In his early teens, Mehran moves from Karachi, the rainless place of his childhood to London, the rainy city his father has always loved. At the age ... More

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When Theodore Gumbril hits upon the notion of designing a type of pneumatic trouser to ease the discomfort of the sedentary life, he decides the time ... More

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Damian Baxter is very, very rich - and he's dying. He lives alone in a big house in Surrey, looked after by a chauffeur, butler, cook and housemaid. ... More

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Evelyn Waugh's acidly funny and formally daring satire, "Vile Bodies" reveals the darkness and vulnerability that lurks beneath the glittering ... More

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Fowler's End is a bustling, ram-shackle community where bathtubs are considered effete. Daniel Laverock comes to the neighbourhood in search of ... More

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There's love, and there's revenge. Betsy Lou Saegessor is bent on revenge. Her father is dead, and to top it off, the vast fortune that should have ... More

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Celine's third novel, first published in 1944 but dealing with events taking place during the First World War, Guignol's Band follows the narrator's ... More

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Dickens' final novel, "Our Mutual Friend", is acclaimed as his most sophisticated work, combining deep psychological insight with rich social ... More

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In the CLASSICS series, this collection of Dickens' earliest published writings, illustrated by George Cruikshank, tell the story of a young reporter ... More

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'though a great many men and not a few women knew Ferdinand Lopez very well, none of them knew whence he had come' Despite his mysterious antecedents ... More

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The Three Clerks dates from the same period of writing as the Barchester chronicles, and was considered by Trollope his finest novel up to that point.

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Draws us into the twilit world of Edwin Reardon, a struggling novelist, and his friends and acquaintances in Grub Street including Jasper Milvain, an ... More

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'She loved him much, and admired him even more than she loved him...Would that he had some faults!' Alice Vavasor is torn between a risky marriage ... More

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Charles Dickens's last completed novel tells the story of a young man who must marry a stranger in order to win his inheritance. Wanting to learn the ... More

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Born to hardworking immigrant parents in sunny suburban Los Angeles, Stephen Newman never imagined that he would spend his adult life under the grey ... More

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One warm July morning Mr Phillips climbs out of bed, leaving Mrs Phillips dozing. He prepares for his commute into the city - but this is no ordinary ... More

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It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in ... More

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A fast-moving, elegant novel set in contemporary London in the glittering world of charity auctions, big business, high art, and more than enough ... More

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Emotions are running high in Stepney, with Blackshirts marching through the streets and the Jewish community under threat of violence. Jessie finds ... More

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Explores representations and re-imaginings of London in post-war fiction from Graham Greene to J.G. Ballard.

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One day in 1992, Jill Robinson woke up in a London hospital, unable to recognize her husband and drawing a blank on her previous life. This is the ... More

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