Selected Fiction, Biography and Memoir Books

Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness

by Lisa Appignanesi

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)

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment... (more)

The Years

by Virginia Woolf

'A brilliant fantasia of all Time's problems, age and youth, change and permanence, truth and illusion' The Times Literary Supplement.

The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their... (more)

The Waves

by Virginia Woolf

'Clear, bright, burnished ... the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry' The New York Times.

Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from... (more)

To the Lighthouse

by Virgina Woolf

'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)

Orlando:

by Virginia Woolf

'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary Supplement.

First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman,... (more)

Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams

by Irina Paperno

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)

Letters from a Stoic

by Seneca

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Between the Acts

by Virginia Woolf, Stella McNichol

'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)

Night and day:

by Virginia Woolf

'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)

Jacob's Room:

by Virginia Woolf

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)

Mrs Dalloway

by Virginia Woolf

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)

The symposium

by Plato

'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)