1083

Another horror story by the absolute master of psychological exploration. A 'Ghost Story' that may or may not have ghosts! Is the governess moral and sane or prurient and mad? Come and see if we can help towards a clear decision.

1050

James Joyce's most auto-biographical novel about growing up in Dublin at the turn of the 19th Century.

1032

Zorba the Greek...Kazantzakis's novel about dancing, friendship, love, violence, friendship and dancing! Made famous by the film, it captures the essence of Greece in the days before tourism made it 'civilised'.

1025a

The first Englishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Born in what used to be called Bombay, Kipling retained a huge love for the colour and exotic richness of India.

1025

From the creator of Mowgli, a rich series of stories of Anglo-Indian life. Loss, suffering and broken faith. Could you have survived colonial India?

1050a

The Sicilian aristocrat Giuseppe Di Lampedusa wrote only one full novel and 'The Leopard' is a masterpiece. It charts the life of the Prince of Salina through the period of Garibaldi's landing in Sicily to the early years of the 20th Century. The Prince must bow to or resist the forces of change blowing through his vulnerable country.

1047

Burnt in London by the public hangman, and considered obscene, what is so bad about this scandalous novel?

1053a

Considered by many critics the most lyrical of Lawrence's novels, 'The Rainbow' was banned and burnt in London by the Public Hangman. Years later it is recognised as one of the greatest exporations of love between the sexes.

1053

D.H.Lawrence's last novel and the one which caused the greatest scandal. Banned in England until the 1960s is this a book which is all about sex? Or a seminal study of a declining England?

1055a

D.H.Lawrences' 3rd novel and the most autobiographical. Essential reading to understanding the later Lawrence.