Books from Random House

  • War and Peace
    War and Peace
    By graf Leo Tolstoy

    'There is a good argument to say that any decent library must make room for War and Peace' Independent on Sunday 'It is hard to imagine how this translation could be superseded' Vladimir E. Alexandrov, Professor of Literature, Yale ...

  • Demons: A Novel in Three Parts
    Demons: A Novel in Three Parts
    By Fyodor Dostoyevsky

    From the award-winning translators of Crime and Punishment, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky.Based on a real-life crime which horrified Russia in 1869, Dostoevsky intended his novel to castigate the fanaticism of his country's new ...

  • The Complete Novels
    The Complete Novels
    By Franz Kafka

    Both Joseph K inThe Trialand K inThe Castleare victims of anonymous governing forces beyond their control.

  • The Call of Cthulhu and Selected Strange Tales
    The Call of Cthulhu and Selected Strange Tales
    By H. P. Lovecraft

    An introduction to the weird and unsettling world of H. P. Lovecraft, master of horror and pioneer of 'weird fiction.

  • A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals 1897-1909
    A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals 1897-1909
    By Virginia Woolf

    With the development of the Northern Line in 1905, a tunnel was driven under Hampstead Heath which emerged 11⁄2 miles away in the undeveloped fields of Golders Green; the result was a burst of speculative building and an increase of ...

  • The Toybreaker
    The Toybreaker
    By Paul Rogers

    So I got rid of the ache and settled for an end.' 'The ache?' said Jamie. 'Backache, do you mean?' 'Ha!' went the toymender. 'that'll be the day, when I get rid of that! No. The “ache” in toymaker. I painted it out and wrote “end” ...

  • A Good African Story: How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand
    A Good African Story: How a Small Company Built a Global Coffee Brand
    By Andrew Rugasira

    This is a book about Africa taking its destiny in its own hands, and dictating the terms of its future.

  • Ghostwalk: A Novel
    Ghostwalk: A Novel
    By Rebecca Stott

    A succession of new pictures followed the black-and-white picture of Elizabeth with the champagne glass and cigarette. Someone gave up waiting for Cameron to speak again and turned up the volume on the music: Strauss's "Four Last Songs” ...

  • Going Too Far
    Going Too Far
    By Laura Hamilton

    Spirited adventurer Bliss Van Bon is set for three months travelling around South America.

  • All The King's Horses
    All The King's Horses
    By Laura C Stevenson

    'REMEMBER ALL THOSE STORIES GRANDPA USED TO TELL US ABOUT CHANGELINGS.

  • The Best Thing That Never Happened To Me
    The Best Thing That Never Happened To Me
    By Laura Tait, Jimmy Rice

    'Mr Gordon . . .” I realize that Mr Gordon has been holding out his hand for me to shake since he opened the door. I offer a limp shake, looking behind him for a sight of Holly. “It's good to see you, Alex, but if it's Holly you've come ...

  • Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines
    Talk to Me: Listening Between the Lines
    By Anna Deavere Smith

    I was walking down a hallway of a high school, just after Clinton had saluted a number of policemen, and I saw Todd Purdum talking to Maureen Dowd. She grabbed Todd and pulled him into a classroom. The door slammed.

  • Death Zone
    Death Zone
    By Matt Dickinson

    During selection Bell turned down an application from journalist Rebecca Stephens, considering her “too incxperienced', but he did agree to take the fiftysix-year-old actor Brian Blessed, now on his second attempt.

  • The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    By Bill Bryson

    Bryson's acclaimed first success, The Lost Continent is a classic of travel literature - hilariously, stomach-achingly, funny, yet tinged with heartache - and the book that first staked Bill Bryson's claim as the most beloved writer of his ...

  • Story of Ireland
    Story of Ireland
    By Neil Hegarty

    This altering social climate was encapsulated in the election of Mary Robinson to the presidency in the autumn of 1990. In I969 Robinson had been elected to the Senate for the Trinity College constituency; and in the intervening years ...

  • The House of Lancaster: How England Rugby was Reinvented
    The House of Lancaster: How England Rugby was Reinvented
    By Neil Squires

    Sir Clive Woodward left in a huff in September 2004, taking a swipe at the RFU for failing to deliver the central control over players he thought essential and it was left to his deputy Andy Robinson to pick up the pieces.

  • Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors
    Do You Mr Jones?: Bob Dylan with the Poets and Professors
    By Neil Corcoran

    ... Christopher 63, 85, 187, 309, 318 Rimbaud, Arthur 53,224 Robertson, Robbie 66 Robinson, Edward Arlington 128 Robinson, Smokey 301 Rolling Stone 81, 90–91 Rolling Thunder Revue 299, 326 Rollins, Sonny 176 'Romance in Durango' 213, ...

  • Escape From Germany
    Escape From Germany
    By Neil Hanson

    This is the fascinating story of how they did it – and of the many who had failed before them.

  • Football, My Life
    Football, My Life
    By Lou Macari

    'You've got a problem with your assistant,” he said, meaning Harry. 'He's up to no good. He's hanging around the directors, trying to influence them too much. He talks to them as though he is the manager.

  • A Matter Of Opinion
    A Matter Of Opinion
    By Alan Hansen

    If I had to pick the finest piece of individual defending I have ever seen, it would be Moore's challenge on the brilliant Brazilian winger Iairzinho during England's match against the South Americans in the 1970 World Cup quarter-final ...