Immortalised in the film starring Audrey Hepburn, Truman Capote's classic 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' is full of sharp wit. Its exuberant cast of characters vividly captures the restless, slightly madcap era of early 1940s New York.

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?

Originally published in 1939 and with a new introduction, Good Morning, Midnight portrays Sophia Jansen, a young single woman who, upon arriving in France to flee personal tragedy, seeks to emancipate herself and exploit her sexuality.

In the book which put South America on the literary map, Marquez tells the haunting story of a community in which the political, the personal and the spiritual worlds intertwine.

Eddie Carbone is a straightforward man with a strong sense of honour. For Eddie, it's a privilege to take in his wife's cousins. But, as his niece begins to fall for one of them, it's clear that it's not just. However, something deeper is wrong inside Eddie, something which threatens the happiness of their whole family.

A tie-in edition of Waugh's first and funniest novel to accompany the BBC adaptation starring Jack Whitehall. Sent down from Oxford University for indecent behaviour, Paul Pennyfeather embarks on a series of bizarre adventures that start in a minor public school and end in one of Her Majesty's prisons. In this, his first and funniest novel, Evelyn Waugh brilliantly satirised the roaring '20s with his story of an innocent abroad in high society.

Waugh's own unhappy experience of being a soldier is re-enacted in this story of Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman, commissioned during the Second World War. In action in Crete and Yugoslavia he discovers not heroism, but humanity.

Slick, upbeat and funny, these stories inspired the popular musical and film Guys and Dolls. 'Of all the high players this country ever sees, there is no doubt but that the guy they call the Sky is the highest. He will bet all he has, and nobody can bet any more than this'.

At the time of his death, the poet Von Humboldt Fleischer is a failure, and his friend Charlie Citrine's life has hit rock bottom. Then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie a legacy that might turn his life round.

This is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia. It retells the tale of King Solomon and a child claimed and fought over by two mothers.