Item category 1: Classics

"Animal Farm is one of the most famous warnings ever written. Orwell's immortal satire - 'against Stalin' as he wrote to his French translator - can be read on many levels. With its piercing clarity and deceptively simple style it is no surprise that this novel is required reading for schoolchild...

When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless elite among them, masterminded by the pigs Napoleon and Snowball, starts to take cont...

The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart off the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people.

This book includes an introduction by Bill Bryson. An outrageously funny spoof about the ascent of a 40,000-and-a-half-foot peak, "The Ascent of Rum Doodle" has been a cult favourite since its publication in 1956. Led by the reliably under-insightful Binder, a team of seven British men including ...