Item category 1: Classics

In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, 15 year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?

The publication of Clarice Lispector's 'Collected Stories', 85 in all, is a major literary event. Now, for the first time in English, are all the stories that made her a Brazilian legend: from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives ar...

Before the universe began to expand, when all of everything existed in a single point of space, Qfwfq was there. And afterwards - through the millennia, and across galaxies and in different, shifting forms - he persisted. This is Italo Calvino's account of the universe as a cosmic joke.

This title features enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. They disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play gam...

Dmitry Andreich Olenin, in the hope of escaping the hollowness of his privilege, joins the army and heads to the Caucasus. There among the foothills he will meet the Cossacks: a people he considers to be at one with the land. In their company he will hunt, he will drink, he will fall in love and,...

Caithleen is a romantic. She dreams of finding a handsome man who will sweep her away and look after her. Her friend Baba thinks this makes her a right-looking eejit. What she wants is money and glamour. Life. As much of it as she can get. But neither love nor excitement seem possible in their sm...