Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche (free download), Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche’s works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas’ A. C. Grayling. Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western...
A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (free download), Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged,...
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov , Afterword by Craig Raine , Foreword by John Ray (free download), ‘Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine … You read Lolita sprawling limply in your chair, ravished, overcome, nodding scandalized assent’ Martin Amis, Observer. Poet and...
The House on the Lake : The new gripping and haunting thriller from the bestselling author of Day of the Accident by Nuala Ellwood (free download), No matter how far you run . . . He’s never far behind. ‘Gripping, poignant’...
The Book Thief : Includes a chapter from his new book BRIDGE OF CLAY by Markus Zusak (free download), The New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller. Over one million copies sold in the UK alone. ‘A novel of breathtaking scope’...
Ulysses by James Joyce (free download), With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex. James Joyce’s astonishing masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on 16...
The Stranger by Albert Camus (free download), Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed -the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.- First published in 1946;...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer , By Annie Barrows (free download), It’s 1946. Juliet Ashton, a 32-year-old writer, has found a certain recognition through her light-hearted column for the Spectator which lifted the spirits...
The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (free download) I was supposed to be having the time of my life. When Esther Greenwood wins an internship on a New York fashion magazine in 1953, she is elated, believing she will finally realise...
