The Thought Police, Doublethink, Newspeak, Big Brother - 1984 itself: these terms and concepts have moved from the world of fiction into our everyday lives.
Cork Street, Next To The Hatter's is part of Pamela Hansford Johnson's 'Dorothy Merlin Trilogy', along with The Unspeakable Skipton and Night and Silence, Who Is Here?
Victor Hugo's historical novel captures the lives of those living in Medieval Paris during a time where hangings and public humiliation were part of the foundation of society.
Taken from the poverty of her parents' home in Portsmouth, Fanny Price is brought up with her rich cousins at Mansfield Park, acutely aware of her humble rank and with her cousin Edmund as her sole ally.
In "e;Tales of Soldiers and Civilians"e; (1892) American journalist and short story writer Ambrose Bierce describes unusual incidents and scenes in the lives of soldiers and civilians during the American Civil War.
A deluxe Harper Perennial Legacy Edition, with an introduction from Simon Van Booy, nationally best-selling author of Fathers Day and The Illusion of SeparatenessA compelling historical novel of a young mans rise from poverty to wealth in a small provincial town during the Industrial Revolution, now available in a Legacy Edition from Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
A fictionalized World War I memoir by RAF pilot John Everard Gurdon, “an evocative picture of the daily life of the squadron and its characters” (Western Front Association).
Winner of the Whitbread Literary Award: A darkly humorous tale about a 1970s dinner party gone terribly wrong by one of Britain’s most renowned authors.
Named by the Observer as “one of the 100 greatest novels of all time,” this dark comedy with a disturbing twist follows two working-class women in 1970s London.
In Ivanhoe, a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe is a Saxon crusader, returning home to England from the unsuccessful Third Crusade.
George Chetwynd Griffith (1857-1906) was an English writer and explorer whose exploits including three journeys around the world, one which took only 65 days to complete.
