Beletrie

Oscar Wilde

Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales by the celebrated playwright and poet include "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" and "A House of Pomegranates." Revised…

Amy Chua

Paperback edition of the much discussed parenting guide and memoir which details Chua's Chinese method of bringing up her daughters. It was supposed to be a story of how Chinese parents are better at…

Now part of "The Canons", this is a classic history of activism and social change over the past five decades. An updated edition.

Ed Emberley, Anne Miranda

Caldecott Medal-winning author/artist Emberley provides an innovative die-cut book featuring fold-out masks of monsters of different colors that youngsters can use to explain what makes them feel glad…

Henry Marsh

How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that creates thought, feeling and reason? This memoir gives astonishingly candid insight into the career of one of the…

Miranda July

The bestselling, critically acclaimed short story collection in a new "The Canons" edition. Startling, tender and sexy by turns.

James Baldwin

John Rolfe, Peter Troob

"Monkey Business" is the hilarious confession of two young investment bankers of what it's like at ground zero on The Street. This tell-all pulls off Wall Street's suspenders and gives the reader the…

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer spent much of his teenage and college years oscillating between omnivore and vegetarian. But on the brink of fatherhood-facing the prospect of having to make dietary choices on a…

Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller's classic parable of mass hysteria draws a chilling parallel between the Salem witch-hunt of 1692 - 'one of the strangest and most awful chapters in human history' - and the American an…

Charles Dickens

Scott Westerfeld

The blockbuster--and groundbreaking--bestselling dystopian series from Westerfield gets a whole new look in these fresh, repackaged paperback editions.

James Islington

OLD POWERS AWAKENIt has been twenty years since the god-like Augurs were overthrown and killed. Now, those who once served them - the Gifted - are spared only because they have accepted the rebellion's…

Iris Changová

This "New York Times" national bestseller recounts the forgotten story of the brutal massacre of 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese army. "Anyone interested in the relation between war, self…

George R.R. Martin

Long ago, in a time forgotten, a preternatural event threw the seasons out of balance. In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and…

Charles Dickens

'Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show' Dickens's epic, exuberant novel is one of the greatest coming-of-age…

Lucy Worsley

Terry Pratchett

Agatha Christie

The New Yorker was launched in 1925, and offers reporting, criticism, essays, fiction, poetry, humour and cartoons. At the start, the founding editor Harold Ross declared that the sophsticated…

Gillian Flynn

Enid Blytonová

Celebrate Christmas with one of the world s best-loved children s authors in this sparkly collection of stories. Ages: 9+.