'On the Road' swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat.

The Bell Jar is Sylvia Plath's account of a young woman's breakdown. Renowned for its intensity and its vivid prose, the novel follows her attempted suicide, hospitilisation and recovery.

Lina, a young Chilean academic living in New York, suddenly retreats from a house party, complaining of a sharp pain in her head, right behind the eyes. What she assumes is a simple headache turns out to be far worse: she is suffering a hemorrhage. Within minutes, blood floods her optic nerve, reducing her vision to sketched outlines and tones of grey, rendering her all but blind. As she begins to adjust to a very different life, those who love her...

To be published on the centenary of Hemingway's birth, True At First Light is the fictionalised account of Hemingway's time living and hunting in Kenya. The single draft made was discovered and edited by his son Patrick.

Traces Nina Bouraoui's blissful childhood in Algeria, a wild, sun-soaked paradise, with hazy summer afternoons spent swimming, diving, and driving across the desert. Her mother is French, her father Algerian; when racial tensions begin to surface in their neighbourhood, her mother suffers an unspeakable act of violence that forces the family to flee the country. In Paris, 18-year-old Nina lives alone. It's the 1980s. Four nights a week she makes her...

'The Summer Book' is a fresh, vivid and magical novel about seemingly endless summers of discovery. An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away the summer together, on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds and sudden storms.

Sunlight on a Broken Column, first published in 1961, is a monumental, autobiographical novel, set against the background of Indian Partition. Laila, orphaned daughter of a distinguished Muslim family, is brought up in her grandfather's traditional household by her aunts, who keep purdah. At fifteen she moves to the home of a 'liberal' but autocratic uncle in Lucknow. Here, during the 1930s, as the struggle for Indian independence sharpens, Laila...

This is the story of a dedicated school teacher who turns hate into love, teenage rebelliousness into self-respect and contempt into consideration for others. It is the story of a man's own integrity winning through against all the odds.

It's 1986 and Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his tenth rollercoaster year as headteacher. It's the year of Margaret Thatcher's third election victory, 'Dynasty' and shoulder pads, 'Neighbours' and a Transformer for Christmas. And at Ragley-on-the-Forest School, a year of surprises is in store. Ruby the caretaker find happiness at last, Vera the secretary makes an important decision, a new teacher is appointed and a disaster threatens...

'Shantaram' introduced millions of readers to a cast of unforgettable characters through Lin, an Australian fugitive, working as a passport forger for a branch of the Bombay mafia. In 'The Mountain Shadow', the long-awaited sequel, Lin must find his way in a Bombay run by a different generation of mafia dons, playing by a different set of rules.