Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins

Anthony Burgess

'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co...

Les Miserables

Victor Hugo

Few novels ever swept across the world with such overpowering impact as Les Mis rables. Within 24 hours, the first Paris edition was sold out. In other great cities of the world it was devoured with equal relish.   Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violen...

The Making of Her

Bernadette Jiwa

'An absorbing, brilliantly paced book; I didn't want it to end.' Roddy DoylePeople were forever telling her how lucky she was. But what did people know?'Dublin 1966. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her dreams have come true. But all is not as ...