Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother`s body is fished from a river in rural Sussex. And when she discovers a cache of letters amongst her mother`s effects she realises that the past she has always...
`One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era` - Time Out. Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.
Secrets from her mother: 1. I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom to Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben Hur. ...From her boyfriend: 2. I`m a size twelve. Not a size eight, like Connor...
Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were...
Floss`s parents split up when she was younger and she now divides up her week, spending five days with her mum, her mum`s new boyfriend and her new baby half-brother. The other two days Floss spends with her dad,...
It is 1941 and Captain Antonio Corelli, a young Italian officer, is posted to the Greek island of Cephallonia as part of the occupying forces. At first he is ostracised by the locals, but as a conscientious but far...
Captain and the Enemy (Vintage Classics)
A young boy, Victor, is collected from school by a stranger in a bowler hat - the stranger says he has won Victor in a game of backgammon with Victor`s father. The stranger, known as the Captain, takes Victor to live...
Wrongfully arrested following the Monmouth rebellion of 1685, Peter Blood, country physician and former soldier, escapes the hangman`s noose only to be exiled to the tropical colonies. Sold into slavery to a cruel...
It is the year 1152 and a beautiful woman of thirty, attended by only a small armed escort, is riding like the wind southwards through what is now France, leaving behind her crown, her two young daughters and a...
These marvellous stories introduce us to Jeeves, whose first ever duty is to cure Bertie`s raging hangover ("If you would drink this, it is a little preparation of my own invention. It is the Worcester Sauce that...
Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
`It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn...
The little cat Deric Longden saw sitting forlornly on an upturned bucket belonged to the neighbours, but somehow when it began to rain it seemed only natural to bring him inside. Once there he slipped so easily into...
Crippled and disconsolate, sixteen-year-old Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. Yet that is when she miraculously meets and talks with the Blessed Virgin as...
Blessedly, monstrously, bloatedly, cynically funny, and fantastically unique.
Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, "Catch-22" is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has...
Hilarious and tragic, at the heart of "Catch-22" is a savage indictment of twentieth-century madness, and a desire of the ordinary man to survive it.
Many legends have grown up about the sexual rapacity of Catherine the Great. While it is true that she shocked the Russian court with the number and age of her lovers, there is no truth in the rumour of her death by...
