CLASSICS
Beautiful hardback brings together petrifying tales of the supernatural, brilliantly penned by classic horror writers.
Lauren McInnes Bad Girls of Ancient Greece HarperNorth, 6th June, hb, eb, £12.99, 9780008687083 Profiles of wayward wives, mad mothers and scandalous sisters.
Farah Mendlesohn (ed) Classic Fantasy Stories Macmillan Collector’s Library, 11th July, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781035026432 Entrancing anthology of fantasy short stories full of magic, adventure and surprise.
George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-four Granta Books, 4th July, hb, eb, £30, 9781783789924 Deluxe 75th-anniversary edition of the most iconic British novel of the 20th century. Contains rarely seen extra material, including facsimile pages of Orwell’s original manuscript.
George Orwell The Road to Wigan Pier Alma Classics, 23rd May, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781847499196 Annotated edition of Orwell’s invaluable insight into the evolution of his political consciousness.
Stephen Pimenoff (tr), Anton Chekhov The Willow and Other Stories Alma Classics, 23rd May, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781847499172 Unique collection of Chekhov’s stories, some of them never or rarely translated into English.
Kenneth Ramchand, Seepersad Naipaul Gurudeva and Other Stories Peepal Tree Press, 31st July, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781845235543 Pioneering work of Indian Caribbeans writing about themselves and the beginnings of the Caribbean short story.
Harriet Sanders (ed) Classic Stories of the Sea Macmillan Collector’s Library, 11th July, hb, eb, £10.99, 9781035014927 Tales of adventure capture the thrill, danger and allure of the sea.
Zachary Seager (ed) Paris: A Literary Anthology Macmillan Collector’s Library, 14th March, pb, eb, £9.99, 9781035023615 Sparkling celebration of
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Paris by some of the greatest writers in the world.
Vladimir Sorokin, Max Lawton Blue Lard NYRB Classics, 27th February, pb, £16.99, 9781681378183 The most iconoclastic Russian novel of the last 40 years, Sorokin’s infamous story is a dystopian fever dream about cloning, alternative histories and world domination.
Vladimir Sorokin, Max Lawton (tr), Will Self Red Pyramid and Other Stories NYRB Classics, 27th February, pb, eb, £16.99, 9781681378206 Provocative, hilarious and tender stories about sex, violence and politics from one of the greatest Russian writers of the post-Soviet era.
Bram Stoker The Lair of the White Worm Naxos AudioBooks, 1st April, audiobook, £16, 9781781984970 In rural England, Australian Adam Salton encounters a mysterious series of events, which seem to be connected to the legend of the white worm. Read by Matt Addis.
Dylan Thomas Portrait of the Artist As a Young Dog and Other Fiction Alma Classics, 25th April, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781847499158 Included in this annotated volume is the complete body of fiction produced by the Welsh poet in his short and turbulent life.
Lionel and Doris Thomas (tr), Annette von Droste Hülshoff The Jew’s Beech Alma Classics, 21st March, pb, eb, £7.99, 9781847499189 Novella about the unsolved murder of a Jewish citizen, based on a true story. Considered as a highly successful example of the German novella.
Leonid Tsypkin, Susan Sontag
Summer in Baden-Baden Faber & Faber, 2nd May, pb, eb, £9.99, 9780571386895 Join Dostoevsky on his tumultuous honeymoon in this hypnotic cult classic, introduced by Sontag.
Edward Watts The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome
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Oxford University Press, 1st February, pb, £14.99, 9780197691953 The story of two millennia of use and misuse of the idea of Roman decline by ambitious politicians, authors and autocrats.
Edith Wharton, John Keats, William Shakespeare Timeless Love Harper Muse, 29th February, pb, eb, £10.99, 9781400341849 Giftable tome celebrates and explores love through classic poems, stories and letters by some of literature’s most welcome writers.
Edith Wharton Summer Naxos AudioBooks, 1st May, audiobook, £13, 9781781984987 Often compared to Ethan Frome, Summer is a heartwrenching, coming- of-age story regarded by Wharton as one of her best. Read by Laurel Lefkow.
Virginia Woolf Orlando Sterling, 2nd April, hb, £16.99, 9781454953050 Bold and tender, Orlando is a truly multi-faceted work that has been hailed as a satire of biography, a queer classic, and a loving portrait of an irrepressible spirit.
Virginia Woolf New Dress and Other Stories Alma Classics, 15th February, pb, eb, £8.99, 9781847499103 Annotated short story collection that reveals its author as one of the finest practitioners in the field of short fiction. Final volume in Alma’s Virginia Woolf Collection.
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