Shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It is March 1913, and the grand old city of Moscow is stirring herself to meet the beginning of spring. Change is in the air, and nowhere more so than at 22 Lipka Street, the home of English printer Frank Reid.

Penelope Fitzgerald's biography of her remarkable family.

Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst.

Penelope Fitzgerald, who died in 2000, emerged late in life as one of the most remarkable English writers of the last century. The three novels in this volume all display her characteristic wit, intellectual breadth and narrative brilliance, applied to the different traditional forms into which she breathed new life.

Sixty-one when she published her first novel, Penelope Fitzgerald based many subsequent books on the experiences of a long and varied life. It presents a life unknown to the author through a story of English emigres in pre-Revolutionary Russia and has been described by one critic as the best `Russian' novel of the twentieth century.

From Graham Rawle, author of 'the most wildly original novel produced in this country in the past decade... a work of genius' (The Times on Woman's World), comes a charming, surreal, visually stunning and utterly unforgettable new novel: The Card.

They call him Herod - a killer of unimaginable cruelty, with an unthinkable desire. This is a dark, disturbing and compulsively page-turning thriller, announcing Mark Roberts as a major new star, set to rival Mark Billingham.

Set in Madrid in the 1970s and '80s, this novel offers insights into female sexuality. At 15 Lulu is seduced by an older man. They marry and have a child, but at 30 she embarks on a series of sexual encounters which brings her into contact with low-life characters of all sexual inclinations.

When the great artist, Jack Driver, dies, a big retrospective exhibition is planned, and the origin of his paintings is thrown into doubt. The cataloguer Roland Matthias wonders if they could be the work of the artist's wife.

Luke is a failure - until one day a different kind of catastrophe occurs. The man in front of him at the post office queue drops down dead. Instinctively, Luke's hand snakes out and slips the corpse's unposted letter into his pocket. With this impulsive act, he begins a search for justice.

Abandoned at birth in the perilous Deepwoods, Twig Verginix is brought up by a family of woodtrolls.

Robin and Meric are the sons of neighbouring squires. One day, on a fishing trip into the woods, Meric disobeys the orders of the witch, Granny Shaftoe, and shortly after, disappears. Robin occupies himself telling stories to his son, Alan, and the foundling, Margaret. Before long, these two are old enough to go fishing at the well in the woods.

Now stunningly repackaged is another classic novel from the Hugo Award winner: a blend of superb narrative and thought-provoking ideas making the world of tomorrow as real as that of today.

Franz Kafka is a challenging chronicler of a nightmarish world. This book introduces the reader to Kafka's dark and often unsettling mid-European imagination. This book sets Kafka in centext and explores his relevance to our modern world. It provides a balance of biography, influences and critical appraisal.

A reissue of Stephen King's fantasy classic with a dramatic new graphic cover style.

In life and, indeed, in liff, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist. This text uses place names to describe some of these meanings.

With a new introduction by the author

Focuses on the ties that bind people, the good and bad things they do to each other, the happiness, embarrassment and the pain that they cause their friends, their partners, and their children.

Set in Prague and the wooded landscape of Bohemia, this is the story of a sharp-witted waiter. He learns his trade in pre-war Prague, marries an Arian beauty as the Germans invade, makes and loses a fortune and achieves a kind of serenity among the ruins of post-war Europe.

Built upon the fortunes of a 14 year old kid, this book covers the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West.