The Red And The Black has been hailed as the first great ‘realist’ novel of the nineteenth century, offering a lively and detailed picture of social and political life in the provinces and in Paris towards the end of the 1820s, the close of the stifling reactionary period of the Bourbon Restoration. Stendhal himself claimed that no-one before him had ventured to portray with such verisimili…
Bracket Wood School Notices Bracket Wood is about to be visited by the school inspectors. And there’s one BIG PROBLEM: Ryan Ward. The naughtiest kid in school. But when Ryan finally goes too far the head teacher just … walk out. And then the the new head teacher, Mr Carter, arrives. A man so strict even the teachers are afraid of him. So imagine his surprise when they swap bodies. N…
A boy’s heart pound in terror as he awaits his ritual circumcision to become a true Muslim. An idealistic young soldier witnesses the barbaric beating of a man accused of being a spy. An eight-year-old girl, soon to be married off by her parents for money, brags to a playmate about the pretty clothes she will acquired. With All That Is Gone, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, author of The Buru Quart…
This spellbinding story, like its predecessor, This Earth of Mankind, has its origins in a series of tales related orally by Pramoedya Ananta Toer to his fellow prisoners in an Indonesian prison. Child Of All Nations follows the political awakening of its hero, the extraordinary Minke, a Dutch-educated Javanese writer. Coming to grips with the oppression and injustice of the European regime in …
They have begun their invasion. They will take your planet by force. They believe they are unstoppable. We can defeat them. We have unleashed an ancient power. We have turned the tide because. We are no longer alone in this fight. This the beginning of the end.
“He took your life away, Stax. I get that. Don’t let him take your future, too.”
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional character ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam Classics presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero—a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventure in crime! Volum…
Since his first appearance in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has been one of the most beloved fictional character ever created. Now, in two paperback volumes, Bantam Classics presents all fifty-six short stories and four novels featuring Conan Doyle’s classic hero—a truly complete collection of Sherlock Holmes’s adventure in crime! Volum…
If you could go back, who would you want to meet? In a small back alley of Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else beside coffee—the chance to travel back in time. Over the course of one summer, four customers visit the café in the hopes of making that journey. But time…
In a small back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. But this coffee shop offers its customers a unique experience: the chance to travel back in time. From author of Before the Coffee Gets Cold and Tales from the Café another story of four new customers, each of whom is hoping to take advantage of Café Funiculi Funi…