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Larry is a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother, but with the very point of his existence. As the book opens, Larry has been paid $500 by a senior to kill a fellow pupil and retrieve the boy's notebook.

A brilliantly executed parody of Jane Austen's 'forgotten' sex scenes

Published originally in two volumes in 1890, this extraordinary study of primitive myth and magic, collected from sources around the world, led Frazer to identify parallel patterns of ritual, symbols and belief across many centuries and many different cultures.

When Pius Fernandes, a retired schoolteacher living in modern day Dar es Salaam, discovers a diary of a British colonial administrator from 1913, he is drawn into a provocative account of the Asian community of East Africa, and the liaisons, feelings and secrets of its people, over the course of a century.

An acclaimed collection of stories from the internationally bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White

The best of the best in classic short fiction.

A Change is Gonna Come chronicles more than forty years of black music: from the hopeful, angry refrains of the Freedom movement to the slick pop of Motown;

Vintage Fante, brimming with love, death, violence and religion

'Contained in theses few page is a complete portrait of what it means to be human, at our most elemental, and the effect is awesome.' The Observer

Hugh Laurie's reading of a comic classic - a rollicking listen

From one of Israel's most important and acclaimed contemporary writers

A wonderful tale of childhood and its dissipation into adulthood from the man who inspired Bukowski

A swift-paced, wonderfully narrated Wodehouse classic

Written between 1845 and 1854 the memoirs contained in this book were intended for Elizabeth's family. These records of life in the early nineteenth century and the Rothiemurchus estate form a picture of her time.

The complete works of Robert Burns

A tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the twenty-third century, where the women rule the kingdom and the men play war games. But Wat, the History Maker himself, does not play entirely by the rules, and when a woman, Delilah Puddock, joins the fray, this 'utopian' history is further enlivened.

Three novels by George Friel

Anna Noon is a twenty-year-old student with a taste for perverse sex involving an enigmatic older man and a ventriloquist's dummy. Anna lives in Aberdeen and her sex life revolves around the ancient stone circles in the region.The sublime grandeur of the stones provides a backdrop against which Anna is able to act out her provocative psychodramas.

The greatest, most comprehensive, and best translated edition of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most relevant poets.

A poem that anticipates the modern age's nightmare vision of the city as a place of loneliness, alienation and spiritual despair.

'This breathtaking recreation of life in the ancient world welds the power of myth and magic to a stirring plot.' Ian Rankin

Lt. Colonel Jock Sinclair is a rough talking, whisky drinking soldier's soldier, a hero of the desert campaign who rose to his position through the ranks.

Spawned in the ghettos of Kingston as mercenary street-fighters for the island's politicians, the posses began migrating to the United States in the early 1980's, just in time to catch and ride the crack wave as it engulfed the country. This title examines the issues from a British and Jamaican perspective.

From the Orange- and Whitbread-shortlisted author of Buddha Da

Presents four different accounts of what it was to be young and growing up in Glasgow and the west of Scotland, from the 1930s to the 1960s. This title tells a story of how its young protagonist eventually succumbs to a culture of drink and violence where the harshness of life on the land sits next to industrial sprawl.

Was Lucien de Balafre a patriot who served his country as best he could in difficult times, or a treacherous collaborator in the Vichy government? This book explores the ties between fathers and sons and the pains of love and duty in a period of European history that is still characterised by wilful denial and hatred.

"The funniest writer ever to put words to paper" - Hugh Laurie

When Peter Hill, a student at Dundee College of Art, answered an advert in The Scotsman seeking lighthouse keepers, little did he imagine that within a month he would be living with three men he didn't know in a lighthouse on Pladda, a small remote island off the west coast of Scotland.

A compelling literary murder mystery from the author of The Cutting Room