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Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner's office in Clarendon Street provides corpses - but they have often died of violence and drowning: they are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in...

Set in the long hot summer of 2002, Tourism is a filthy, unflinching and politically incorrect take on modern Britain by an extraordinary young Sikh writer.Bhupinder 'Puppy' Singh Johal #8212; handsome, rakish and spiritually disenfranchised #8212; has left behind the immigrant neighbourhood of Southall to mix with the elite of metropolitan London...

"All Quiet on the Western Front" is probably the most famous anti-war novel ever written. The story is told by a young 'unknown soldier' in the trenches of Flanders during the First World War. Through his eyes we see all the realities of war; under fire, on patrol, waiting in the trenches, at home on leave, and in hospitals and dressing stations....

A novel of overwhelming emotional power, "Birdsong" is a story of love, death, sex and survival. Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman, arrives in Amiens in northern France in 1910 to stay with the Azaire family, and falls in love with unhappily married Isabelle. But, with the world on the brink of war, the relationship falters, and Stephen...

Historical fiction at its most thrilling; a complex and gripping adventure set amid the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. 'A class act... a brilliant, pacy storyteller with a muscular prose style' "Mail On Sunday"...

This novel takes place in the court of Charles II. Young Robert Merivel, the court veterinarian, marries the king's mistress and makes the mistake of falling in love with his own wife. RESTORATION was short-listed for the Booker Prize. ...