Russian family life portrayed during and after the Napoleonic War. This second volume describes...
Anna Karenin
With Anna Karenin, Tolstoy's most perfect work, the psychological novel of the nineteenth century...
Tommaso and the Blind Photographer
Intrigue, blackmail and murder -- a dark satire from the great Italian humorist. Tommaso, a former...
Night’s Lies
Four political prisoners spend their last night before facing the guillotine in the clifftop...
Kafka on the Shore
Kafka on the Shore follows the fortunes of two remarkable characters. Kafka Tamura runs away from...
The Voice of the Violin
Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a naked young woman suffocated in her bed immediately sets him...
Vanishing Point
An enigmatic mystery set in a fictional Genova. When an unidentified corpse is brought into the...
The Blue Room
An adulterous affair leads to a double murder and an inescapable nightmare for Tony in this...
The Oxford Murders
A lovely review from Marcus du Sautoy in The Guardian to whet your appetite for this mathematical...
Germinal
Étienne Lantier, an unemployed railway worker, is a clever but uneducated young man with a...