Mr Jones of Manor Farm is so lazy and drunken that one day he forgets to feed his livestock. The ensuing rebellion under the leadership of the pigs... Read more

Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family... Read more

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this coincidence of birth... Read more

A plane crashes on a desert island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit... Read more

For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the... Read more

Features Dorothea Brooke, a young idealist whose search for intellectual fulfilment leads her into a disastrous marriage to the pedantic scholar... Read more

Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, this title tells the story of a bombardier named... Read more

California's fertile Salinas Valley is home to two families whose destinies are fruitfully, and fatally, intertwined. Over the generations,... Read more

Set in the rich farmland of the Salinas Valley, California, this novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families - the Trasks and the... Read more

When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with... Read more