Pierre searches for purpose, Andrei for glory and Natasha for love, while Russia moves towards war.

Tolstoy’s enthralling epic depicts Russia’s war with Napoleon and its effects on the lives of those caught up in the conflict.

Moving between St Petersburg, Moscow, country estates and battlefields, War and Peace follows families linked by love, ambition, inheritance and history. At its heart are Pierre Bezukhov, thoughtful and impulsive; Prince Andrei, restless and ambitious; and Natasha Rostov, whose vitality changes the lives around her.

This is a classic Russian epic about war, love, family and the search for meaning. Vast in scope yet intimate in feeling, Tolstoy brings public history and private emotion together, showing how individuals are shaped by forces they can neither control nor fully understand.

War and Peace is essential reading for anyone drawn to historical fiction, literary classics and novels that ask what it means to live morally in a world of upheaval.

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'If you've never read it, now is the moment. This translation will show that you don't read War and Peace, you live it' The Times

'It is simply the greatest novel ever written. All human life is in it. If I were told there was time to read only a single book, this would be it' Andrew Marr

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

Discover Jane Austen's most beloved classic.

When Elizabeth Bennet meets Mr Darcy, she is repelled by his overbearing pride and prejudice towards her family. But the Bennet girls are in need of financial security in the shape of husbands, so when Darcy's friend, the affable Mr Bingley, forms an attachment to Jane, Darcy becomes increasingly hard to avoid. Polite society will be turned upside down in this witty drama of friendship, rivalry and love - Jane Austen's classic romance novel.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH

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Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of polite society. The charms of unsuitable men and the schemes of rival ladies mean that their paths to success are thwart with disappointment but together they attempt to find a way to happiness.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY FRANCESCA SEGAL

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A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel.
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY MAGGIE O’FARRELL
Orphaned as a child, Jane grows up unwanted in her aunt’s house and then at a brutal school. What she carries from those years is not obedience, but a fierce inward certainty: that her life belongs to her.
When Jane becomes governess at Thornfield Hall, she finds growing independence and the possibility of love. Thornfield is no ordinary house. Its master, Mr Rochester, is passionate, guarded and impossible to ignore, and the rooms around them hold secrets that will test everything Jane believes about duty, desire and self-respect.
Brontë’s novel endures because Jane’s voice never loses its force: direct, searching and fiercely alive to injustice. What begins as a Gothic story of secrecy and desire becomes something more radical: the story of a woman insisting that love, if it is to be worth having, must leave her conscience intact.
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Autumn 1969, and soon I would be 20.

When he hears her favourite Beatles song, Toru Watanabe recalls his first love Naoko, the girlfriend of his best friend Kizuki. Immediately he is transported back almost twenty years to his student days in Tokyo, adrift in a world of uneasy friendships, casual sex, passion, loss and desire – to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past.

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'Poignant, romantic and hopeless, it beautifully encapsulates the heartbreak and loss of faith' Sunday Times

'A masterly novel' New York Times

TRANSLATED BY JAY RUBIN

In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the graveyard shift at a factory. Burdened with heavy debts, alienated from husbands and children, they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives.

A young mother among them finally cracks and strangles her philandering, gambling husband. She confesses her crime to her colleagues and unexpectedly, they agree to help. But then the dismembered body parts are discovered, the police start asking questions and more dangerous enemies begin to close in.

OUT is a psychologically taut and unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul, an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable.

'Grimly satisfying - like no one you've ever read before' Kirkus Reviews

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His memory lasts eighty minutes. The bond they form lasts far longer.

He is a brilliant maths Professor with a peculiar problem: ever since a traumatic head injury, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory.

She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, hired to care for him. Each morning, the Professor and the Housekeeper must be introduced again. He cannot remember what he had for breakfast, but his mind is still alive with elegant mathematical equations from the past.

When the Housekeeper’s son begins visiting after school, the Professor gives him the nickname Root and welcomes him into a world of numbers, baseball, meals and small rituals of care.

Ogawa writes with the same clarity and restraint as the equations the Professor loves. This is Japanese literary fiction in its most tender : a novel where mathematics becomes a way of noticing, caring and making a fragile world briefly whole.

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'This is one of those books written in such lucid, unpretentious language that reading it is like looking into a deep pool of clear water...Dive into Yoko Ogawa's world and you find yourself tugged by forces more felt than seen' New York Times

Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

**One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World**

As his tale begins, Orlando is a passionate young nobleman whose days are spent in rowdy revelry, filled with the colourful delights of Queen Elizabeth's court. By the close, he will have transformed into a modern, thirty-six-year-old woman and three centuries will have passed. Orlando will not only witness the making of history from its edge, but will find that his unique position as a woman who knows what it is to be a man will give him insight into matters of the heart.

WITH INTRODUCTIONS BY PETER ACKROYD AND MARGARET REYNOLDS

It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up, experience friendship and love, and confront grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival.
Rather than telling the story through conventional plot, Woolf creates a sequence of voices. The six characters speak in soliloquies, their thoughts rising and falling like waves as childhood becomes adulthood and the self is shaped by memory, loss and other people.
A modernist literary classic about consciousness, individuality and community, The Waves is one of Woolf’s most daring and moving works. It is a novel of interior life, friendship and grief, written with extraordinary formal control and emotional intensity.
Regarded by many as her greatest work, The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf’s response to the loss of her brother Thoby, who died when he was twenty-six.

'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves

In late Victorian London, Mrs Pargiter lies dying while the household turns around small rituals, secrets and unspoken feeling. As the years pass, Eleanor, Rose, Martin and the wider family move through adulthood, political change, generational loss and altered freedoms. Woolf builds not around a single plot but around time itself, showing how history enters drawing rooms, bodies, conversations and recollection.

With an introduction by Susan Hill, The Years is Virginia Woolf’s most popular novel from her lifetime, a powerful modernist family saga about London, class, women’s lives, memory and the passing of an era. It is ideal for readers looking for accessible Woolf, literary classics and fiction that catches consciousness in motion.

The lighthouse waits across the bay.

Between the promise and the journey lies the whole fragile life of a family.

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Mr and Mrs Ramsay and their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye, surrounded by family friends. The house is full of conversation, expectation, private irritation and small acts of tenderness. Yet the promised trip to the lighthouse does not take place.
Time passes, bringing war and death, and the summer home stands empty. Years later, the family return, altered by loss, to make the long-postponed visit.
This is Woolf at her most luminous and exacting, transforming domestic life into something vast. The novel’s power lies in the spaces between people: what they say, what they cannot say and what time allows them to understand too late.

'To The Lighthouse is one of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret Drabble
'Thrillingly introspective' The Independent