Together with Animal Farm (also available in our collection), 1984 is George Orwell's most famous and influential novel. Both books have transcended the particular targets they were gunning for at the time of their conception.

When professors Thomson, and Ramón y Cajal meet in Stockholm in December 1906 to receive, respectively, the Nobel Prizes for Physics, and Medicine they talk about how the fields their work is opening up: electronics and neuroscience.

Barbara, an international literary rights agent, starts a new life in Paris as a refugee.

Could we turn on lightbulbs with our hands? Charge mobile phones just by touching them? Someone discovered how to do this over a century ago, someone truly exceptional.

Cosmo, the main character of this story, is a bon vivant, an attractive man whose life has lessened his attractions.

'In my city there were seven men who wore bowler hats. They always went about together. They were serious, stuffy, wore only black and twirled their moustaches.

Paula Bonet, one of the most internationally renowned and highly regarded illustrators, offers a personal vision of François Truffaut.

Brenda would never have imagined that her daily life could so easily be tipped into chaos. One cold and rainy afternoon an encounter with a charming stranger sets off a chain of lies that will shake the very core of her life.