Graffigny's bold and original novel tells the story of Zilia, an Inca Virgin, rescued from the Spanish and brought to France.

In the sub-plot dealing with the marriages of his English and American heroines, Trollope engages head-on the issue of women's rights, a ropic which was as alive for his contemporaries of the late 1860s as it is today.

Originally published: London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1849.

When Isabel Archer, a young American woman with looks, wit, and imagination, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as 'a place of brightness, of free expression, of irresistible action'.

This edition features a new introduction by Charles Johnson, winner of the National Book Award for his 1990 novel "Middle Passage.

This is a collection of Joyce's non-fictional writing, including newspaper articles, reviews, lectures and essays. It covers 40 years of Joyce's life and maps important changes in his political and literary opinions.

An attractive single-volume hardback edition of Dickens's classic Christmas story which also includes Dickens's four other Christmas Books and a selection of original illustrations.

In addition, the book includes two appendices containing Dickens's article, "What Christmas Is As We Grow Older," and facsimile pages from Dickens's reading version of A Christmas Carol.

This is an ideal Christmas present, to give or receive.

Considered by many to be the most terrifying writer in English, James's stories draw on the terrors of the everyday. Documents and objects unleash terrible forces, often in closed rooms and night-time settings where imagination runs riot.