Classic fiction

A Quaint and Curious Volume: Tales and Poems of the Gothic

Introduced by Sarah Perry, the best-selling author of The Essex Serpent.

Uncanny. Mysterious. Eerie. Gothic.

It draws us in with its air of mystery and repels us with its violence and darkness. But who were the first practitioners of the now-prevalent genre?

Girl With Dove: A Life Built By Books

‘The word “mesmerising” is frequently applied to memoirs, but seldom as deservedly as in the case of Girl With Dove’ Financial Times

‘Reading is a form of escape and an avid reader is an escape artist…’

Brilliantly original, funny and clever Honor Clark, Spectator, Book of the Year

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