The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches

Matsuo Basho

In later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written in the "haibun" style--a linking of verse and prose. The title piece, in particular, reveals Basho stri...

Middlemarch

George Eliot, George Eliot

George Eliot's Victorian masterpiece: a magnificent portrait of a provincial town and its inhabitants  George Eliot’s novel, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life, explores a fictional nineteenth-century Midlands town in the midst of modern changes. The proposed Reform Bill promises political change; ...

Berserk Deluxe Volume 1

Kentaro Miura

Have you got the Guts? Kentaro Miura's Berserk has outraged, horrified, and delighted manga and anime fanatics since 1989, creating an international legion of hardcore devotees and inspiring a plethora of TV series, feature films, and video games. And now the badass champion of adult fantasy manga is pr...

Light Over Liskeard

Louis de Bernieres

Sometimes we must look to the past to survive the future. An entertaining novel about what really matters in life from the bestselling author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin Q wants a simpler and safer life. His work as a quantum cryptographer for the government has led him to believe a crisis is immine...

The Pink House: The heartwarming new novel and perfect summer escape from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Catherine Alliott

Step into THE PINK HOUSE, the heartwarming new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors 'An absolute joy. How I longed to live in the Pink House! Wise, funny, glamorously chaotic and achingly romantic' VERONICA HENRY 'Another fantastic family drama with superb characterisat...