Collection: Adult Fiction

Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this is the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel who try to craft a childhood for themselves amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory.

In an intense and brief narrative, a moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events that forces the reader to cross and recross the divide between fantasy and reality.

Ripley wanted out. He wanted money, success, the good life - and he was willing to kill for it. Patricia Highsmith's other novels include Strangers on a Train and This Sweet Sickness.

Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer prize-winning epic remains his undisputed masterpiece. It tells of the Joad family who travel West in search of the promised land, and find only broken dreams.

This novel of courage, defiance and human dignity is John Steinbeck's famous story of how the German invasion of World War 2 came to a small Norwegian town, and how the inhabitants met their conquerors.

Hidden away in the Record Department of the sprawling Ministry of Truth, Winston Smith skilfully rewrites the past to suit the needs of the Party.

In the book which put South America on the literary map, Marquez tells the haunting story of a community in which the political, the personal and the spiritual worlds intertwine.