Classics
profound impact on Western philosophy and politics. This collection features some of his most celebrated writings, including The Republic.
Edgar Allan Poe The Mystery of Marie Roget Alma Classics, 27th August, pb, £7.99, 9781847499417
Includes a wide variety of tales.
Thomas Pynchon Vineland Vintage Classics, 10th October, pb, £10.99, 9780749391416
Exhilarating and wretchedly funny portrait of radical America on the run from the forces of consumerism.
Ruth Rehmann, Rob Madole (tr), Megan Nolan Illusions Faber & Faber, 27th August, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780571396580
Four office workers, one unforgettable weekend – this shimmering lost German classic, introduced by Megan Nolan, unveils the hidden lives inside every employee.
Series
Pilgrimage Dorothy Richardson Naxos AudioBooks, audiobook, 97817819863
Bulk of the Modernist author’s semi- autobiographical series 2: The Tunnel, Interim 1st August, £29, 32 3: Deadlock, Revolving Lights, The Trap, Oberland 1st September, £42, 49 4: Dawn’s Left Hand, Clear Horizon, Dimple Hill, March Moonlight 1st October, £39, 56
Kathleen Rooney, Herbert Clyde Lewis Season’s Greetings Boiler House Press, 30th November, pb, eb, £17.99, 9781915812506
Follows five residents of a Greenwich Village rooming house on Christmas Eve.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Don Quixote
Arcturus, 1st November, hb, £19.99, 9781398872110
Timeless Spanish classic, with cover embossing and striking printed page edges. A founding work of Spanish literature.
Anna Sewell Black Beauty Arcturus, 1st August, pb, £7.99, 9781398868236
Modern paperback edition of a tale loved
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William Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet and Other Verse Thomas Nelson, 10th September, hb, £20, 9781400356645
Laci Fowler did the cover art for this luxuriant edition.
Mary Shelley Frankenstein Arcturus, 15th September, hb, £22.99, 9781398871434
The 1831 version, which includes more of Victor Frankenstein’s motivations.
through the ages, presented with Cecil Aldin’s charming illustrations.
Andrew Hubert von Staufer Robert Burns’ Christmas The History Press, 8th October, hb, eb, £12.99, 9781837053599
The delights of Christmas and Hogmanay seen through the eyes of one of Scotland’s most celebrated writers.
Bram Stoker Dracula Thomas Nelson, 10th September, hb, £20, 9781400356669
Prepare to experience Bram Stoker’s classic horror masterpiece in a deluxe painted edition.
Rabindranath Tagore The Home-coming Macmillan Collector’s Library, 3rd September, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781037403439
Six stories from a top storyteller. Part of Macmillan Collector’s Library set celebrating the art of the short story.
John Taylor The Acts of the Apostles Liverpool University Press, 9th October, hb, eb, £125, 9781807810528
Text of the Acts with translation and accessible commentary covering biblical and Graeco- Roman context.
William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair
Arcturus, 1st September, hb, £19.99, 9781398866294
Thackeray’s best-loved classic wrapped in an embossed cover.
Mary Shelley Frankenstein Thomas Nelson, 10th September, hb, £18.99, 9781400358038
A cornerstone of gothic literature.
Una Lucy Silberrad The Good Comrade Arcturus, 1st August, pb, £7.99, 9781398864801
Early 20th-century classic follows Julia Polkington as she confronts debt, duty and romance while navigating class expectations and social pressures.
Olaf Stapledon Star Maker Arcturus, 1st August, pb, £7.99, 9781398864825
A giant in the sci-fi canon. A disembodied narrator goes on a journey through galaxies and civilizations, culminating in an encounter with the Star Maker in a philosophical exploration of existence.
The Bookseller Buyer’s Guide Fiction
Leo Tolstoy War and Peace Chartwell, 5th November, hb, £22, 9780785850007
Sweeping masterpiece of history, romance, and destiny features luminous foil accents.
Mark Twain The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Chartwell, 5th November, hb, £14.99, 9780785850359
Tale of youthful rebellion, friendship and adventure that never goes stale.
Sun Tzu The Art of War Arcturus, 15th September, hb, £22.99, 9781398870628
Gloriously illustrated with traditional, full-colour artwork and striking laser-cut page edges.
Jules Verne World Classics Library: Jules Verne
Arcturus, 1st November, hb, £19.99, 9781398869059
Including Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Centre
George Ratcliffe Woodward, John Mason Neale, Charles Wesley Wesley, William Chatterton Dix A Book of Christmas Carols Arcturus, 1st September, hb, £8.99, 9781398871922
Tidings of comfort and joy presented in an elegant pocket edition with gilded page edges.
Virginia Woolf An Unwritten Novel Macmillan Collector’s Library, 3rd September, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781037403484
of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
HG Wells The War of the Worlds Naxos AudioBooks, 1st September, audiobook, £16, 9781781986196
The alien-invasion novel and the touchstone for everything from disaster films to post-apocalyptic fiction. Narrator Rupert Degas delivers a masterclass in atmospheric dread.
Oscar Wilde The Nightingale and the Rose Macmillan Collector’s Library, 3rd September, pb, eb, £6.99, 9781035098866
Dream-like tales by the brilliant writer.
Gale Wilhelm, Sheila Liming We Too Are Drifting Boiler House Press, 31st August, pb, eb, £14.99, 9781915812803
A landmark in American literature: the first mainstream novel to deal with lesbian relationships in a straightforward, unapologetic manner. Out of print since 1984.
Angus Wilson, Margaret Drabble The Wrong Set Faber & Faber, 5th November, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780571404766 Overlooked legend of the postwar queer landscape. Wilson’s stories cast a waspish, tragicomic yet oddly tender eye across mid-century England.
Seven Modernist tales in Macmillan’s short story range.
Fujibayashi Yasutake, Alexander Bennett (tr) The Book of Ninja
Arcturus, 1st November, hb, £19.99, 9781398869097
Japanese text on ninja in a superb new translation. A Silkbound Classic.
Magdalena Zira (ed), Edith Hall (ed) Afterlives of the Aeneid’s Women Liverpool University Press, 13th November, hb, eb, £135, 9781807810214
Global receptions of the women of Virgil’s Aeneid across centuries and artistic forms.
Emile Zola Nana Arcturus, 15th August, pb, £9.99, 9781398870048
Zola’s bold and controversial novel about Nana’s rise from the Paris streets to stardom in a revelation of the destructive power of desire and society’s hypocrisy.
Émile Zola The Fortune of the Rougons Naxos AudioBooks, 1st September, audiobook, £25, 9781781986189
The explosive opening to Zola’s 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart cycle. Gritty account of ambition and bloodline read by Leighton Pugh.
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