'One of the great British novels of the twentieth century: a narrative of extraordinary reach, power and beauty' Sarah WatersThe nuns who enter a medieval Norfolk convent are told to renounce the world,...

'Witty, poetic, clairvoyant' John UpdikeThe Reverend Timothy Fortune, ex-clerk of the Hornsey branch of Lloyds Bank, has found his vocation: to convert the inhabitants of the remote tropical island of...

Lolly Willowes ist mit achtundzwanzig Jahren eine alte Jungfer, als ihr Vater stirbt und sie in die Obhut ihrer Brüder gerät. Nach zwanzig Jahren der Einschränkungen als unverheiratete Tante beschließt...

Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten von der Insel, erzählt von Saki, Laurie Lee, Martha Gellhorn, Sylvia Townsend Warner, Elizabeth Taylor, Patrick Hamilton und Patrick Leigh Fermor.

Cats distract us. Cats make us think of things outside of ourselves. And cats love to involve themselves in human affairs.In this omnibus volume of WMG Publishing's notable series, The Year of the Cat,...

'She has a talent amounting to genius' John UpdikeDon Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped? Doña Ana, the woman...

'A comic masterpiece' Patrick Gale, GuardianPillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and largely unhappy family. This is...

'The kind of novelist who inspires an intense sense of ownership in her fans ... her sympathies tended naturally to the marginal, the vulnerable, the exploited, the obscure' Sarah WatersSukey Bond,...

'A novel of love, war and death; brilliantly entertaining and far ahead of its time' Guardian 'She is my husband's mistress - and here am I, taking her out to dinner'Sophia Willoughby of Blandamer House,...

'A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul' Guardian Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that...