
The Aeneid
Virgil, Robert Fagles and Bernard M. W. Knox
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Robert Fagles's award-winning translations of Homer's twin works The Iliad and The Odyssey have sold...

Ysengrimus
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The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle...

2666
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Santa Teresa, on the Mexico US border, is an urban sprawl that draws in lost souls. Among them are...

A Good American
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Alex George's A Good American is a positive and uplifting novel about the American Dream. This is...

A Perfect Spy
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le Carre's most autobiographical novel is also widely held to be his masterpiece, and the finest spy...

A Place Called Winter
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Read our exclusive interview with Patrick Gale here Picked for the BBC Radio 2 Simon Mayo Book...

A Slip Under the Microscope
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'I will go in, out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome...

Because of You
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London 1978: eighteen-year-old Hannah Stein arrives in London from her native Sweden. The city is...

Ravenspur: Rise of the Tudors
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Witness the rise of the Tudors in the stunning conclusion to Conn Iggulden's powerful retelling of...

Strumpet City: One City One Book
Fintan O'Toole and James Plunkett
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This new edition of the epic Strumpet City marks the centenary of the 1913 Lockout. It has been...