Item category 1: Classics

'What we were after was lashings of ultraviolence'. In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost...

A Clockwork Orange is a widely acknowledged as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century. This special edition, compiled and edited by Andrew Biswell, Burgess's biographer, restores the text of the novel as Burgess originally wrote it, and includes a selection of interviews, arti...

Acclaimed entertainer Hans Schneir collapses when his beloved Marie leaves him because he won't marry her in the Catholic church. The desertion triggers a searing re-examination of his life- the loss of his sister during the war, the demands of his millionaire father and the hypocrisies of his mo...

When sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen, she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex. At the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm, she meets the doomed Starkadders, an eccentric group of relatives suffering from a wide variety of ailments. But Flor...

All the sorrows of Evan Shepard's loutish adolescence were redeemed at seventeen, in 1935, when he fell in love with automobiles... In the small suburban town of Cold Spring Harbor, Evan and his young bride Rachel yearn to escape the mistakes of their parents. But as they discover, families exert...