Item category 1: Classics

Centred on the precariously settled coastal town of Desperance, a township shaped by cyclones, monsoonal floods and a river that spurns human endeavour with its incomprehensible tides, it tells the story of the powerful Phantom family. Led by Norm Phantom, the great fish-embalming king of time, l...

Bond is sent to a casino in Royal-les-Eaux to disgrace the lethal Russian agent 'Le Chiffre' by ruining him at baccarat and forcing his Soviet spymasters to 'retire' him, but he soon finds that his quarry is not content to go without a fight.

Presents the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. A satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it.

Presents the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. A satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it.

Presents the tale of the dangerously sane Captain Yossarian, who spends his time in Italy plotting to survive. A satirical indictment of military madness and stupidity, and the desire of the ordinary man to survive it.

Disgusted with the phoniness of adults and expelled from school, sixteen year old Holden Caulfield decides to spend three days alone in New York City instead of going home. He gives a sensitive and frank account of the mental turmoil and disillusionment he undergoes.

Raymond Carver said it was possible 'to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language and endow these things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power'. Nowhere is this alchemy more striking than in the...

Dr Felix Hoenikker, has left a deadly legacy to humanity. He is the inventor of ice-nine, a lethal chemical capable of freezing the entire planet. Writer Jonah's search for its whereabouts leads him to Hoenikker's three eccentric children, to an island republic in the Caribbean where the religion...