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Nightmarish and fiercely funny, William Burroughs' virtuoso, taboo-breaking masterpiece Naked Lunch follows Bill Lee through Interzone: a surreal, orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots,...
Casting light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence, being fascinated by the reality of the...
Atmospheric, sensual and utterly riveting, Carmilla is the novel that inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A true gothic masterpiece, this titillating tale is a key text...
To most of us, Celtic culture is at once distinctive and enigmatic. Though we may acknowledge the Celtic heritage of&,nbsp,Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Spain (Galicia) and...
'I never have been in love, it is not my way, or my nature, and I do not think I ever shall'Beautiful, clever, rich -...
An enduring classic from the greatest of storytellers...
Close, close beneath the land I had once rooted myself in and loved, lay a land filled with violence, injustice and hatredOn 22 April 1962...
A gorgeous Collector's Edition covering the history of Japan from prehistoric times to the end of the Heian period. Japan has gripped the imagination of...
'POPism reads like a novel... Social history of the rarest kind, set down in ultra-sharp focus by someone who helped shape the events he describes'...
Told in a simple mythical style, the story of Siddhartha is an inspirational classic by Hermann Hesse, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Part...
'One of the best historical novels by anyone, ever' David Mitchell 'Japan's greatest twentieth-century author' Graham Greene 'A masterpiece. There can be no...
The ancient roots of the Slavs can be traced through language and archeology to the time of late Babylon, and the Vedic culture of India,...
Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Jünger's Storm of Steel is translated by...
A unique history of the Beats, in the words of the movement's most central member, Allen Ginsberg, based on a seminal series of his lecturesIn...
It seemed that even the jungle fell silent for a moment as if it wanted to help save a little childIn the depths of the...
'Excellent, entertaining and ingenious ... from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Conan Doyle, this fine anthology celebrates one of the richest moments in Britain's literary history'...
A superb murder mystery set in the snowy wastes of ancient northern China Judge Dee is again in relentless pursuit of evil in one of...