This book journeys into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what sane, what mad or simply bad?Brighton, 1870: A well-respected... (more)
'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret Drabble.
To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys,... (more)
Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia,... (more)
'One of the great writers of the twentieth century' Guardian.
It is June in 1939, and the inhabitants of a country house prepare to host the annual village pageant in its grounds. It will tell... (more)
'Woolf's pivotal novel ... the writer feels her way into becoming the giantess she would be' Paris Review.
Virginia Woolf's delicate second novel is both a love story and a social comedy, yet it... (more)
Set in the halcyon days of pre-war innocence, this novel follows the progress of a young man as he passes from adolescence to adulthood in a hazy rite of passage. Wandering from Cornwall to Greece,... (more)
In Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf explores the events of one day, impression by impression, minute by minute, as Clarissa Dalloway's and Septimus Smith's worlds look set to collide - this classic novel... (more)
'Perhaps the most entertaining work of philosophy ever written ... the first really systematic and serious attempt to say what love is' John Armstrong, The Guardian.
In the course of a lively... (more)