Books

The House of Sleep

Jonathan Coe

A group of students - each with a different obsession with sleep - drift apart and are reunited after their former halls of residence is turned into a sleep laboratory.

Tales of the Unexpected

Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl is famous for his classic childrens' books... Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Witches, Fantastic Mr Fox and many more... but Tales of the Unexpected, a book of short stories for adults, is VERY different to these light-hearted, fun stories. All the stories contain at least one shocking twist, many of them being of a violent or disturbing nature.

The Quickening Maze

Adam Fould

Set in Victorian England with poet John Clare as its central character with Alfred, Lord Tennyson also featured, a vividly sympathetic exploration of poetry, madness and identity

The Sense of an Ending

Julian Barnes

Tony Webster and his clique befriend Adrian Finn at school.

Snowdrops

A.D. Miller

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After Dark

Harumi Murakami

American Pastoral

Philip Roth

Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a Jewish man's happy and conventional upper middle class life, which is ruined by America's domestic social and political strife in the 1960s.

From Hell

Alan Moore

Meticulously researched account of the Jack the Ripper murders by the legendary graphic novelist. Features establishment conspiracy theories, over 40 pages of footnotes and a cast of famous Victorians including Walter Sickert, John Merrick and Queen Victoria herself.

Jamaica Inn

Daphne du Maurier

Du Maurier's gothic page-turner about a young woman who uncovers criminal goings on at a remote inn on Bodmin Moor in 1820.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

David Mitchell

The Ghostwritten author's latest novel - four years in the making - tells of a Dutch trader's love for a Japanese midwife who is spirited away into a sinister mountain temple cult.