Early & Medieval Poetry

The Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer, Dr Lesley A. Coote (Lecturer in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Hull)

Shogun: The First Novel of the Asian saga

By Clavell, James

Works and Days and Theogony

By Hesiod, Stanley Lombardo, Robert Lamberton

The Battle of Maldon: together with The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth

By J. R. R. Tolkien, Peter Grybauskas

Fables de la fontaine

The Godfather: The classic bestseller that inspired the legendary film

By Puzo, Mario

Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde

By Sally Minogue (Royal Holloway, University of London), Oscar Wilde

Goodbye To Berlin

By Isherwood, Christopher

Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

By Waugh, Evelyn, Evelyn Waugh

Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone

By William Blake Tyrrell, Larry J. Bennett

George Herbert

By George Herbert, Jo Shapcott

Persian Poems

By Peter Washington

Shelley on Love: Selected writings

By Richard Holmes, Percy Bysshe Shelley

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror

By Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Mighall

A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition

By Anthony Burgess, Andrew Biswell

Catch-22: As recommended on BBC2's Between the Covers

By Joseph Heller, Howard Jacobson

Friends For Life (Melrose and Croc)

By Chichester Clark, Emma, emma-chichester-clark

Of Mice and Men

By Steinbeck John, Steinbeck, Mr John

Dark Age

By James Harpur

The Magic Mountain

By Thomas Mann, Mann, Thomas

The Great Gatsby

By F. Scott Fitzgerald, Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

Erewhon

By Samuel Butler, Peter Mudford