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The Castle is the story of K, the unwanted Land Surveyer who is never to be admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home. As he experiences certainty and doubt, hope and fear, and reason and nonsense, K's struggles in the absurd, labyrinthine world where he finds himself seem to reveal an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence.

Penguin, 2010; 304 pp.; EN; pb

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This collection contains nearly 500 sonnets, composed between 1750 and 1850, showing that far from dying out after Shakespeare and the English Renaissance, the sonnet made a remarkable rebirth in the Romantic period.

Oxford, 1998; 279 pp.; EN; index; pb

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Charlotte Bronte wrote High Life in Verdopolis at the age of 17, when she was immersed in Gothic literature and fascinated by Byron and his affairs. It is a delightful romance, woven around the characters in her imaginary kingdoms Glass Town and Angria.

British Library; 103 pp.; EN; ills. b/w & col; hb

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Who but P.G. Wodehouse could have extracted high comedy from the game of golf. Take the story of Cuthbert, who is helplessly in love with Adeline, but what use are his holes-in-one when she's in thrall to Culture and prefers rising young writers to winners of the French Open. Then look at what happens to Mitchell Holmes, who misses short puts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows. His career seems on the skids, but can golf redeem it.

Arrow, 2008; 224 pp.; EN; pb

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When 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine began writing his rhymed fables, drawn largely on Aesop but adapted to the society of his time, he had no idea they would be read around in hundreds of translations. Hill here presents new translations in verse. Each fable focuses on one or more animals whose conduct generally mirrors the foibles, follies, and shortcomings of the human race.

Arcade, 2008; 350 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hb

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When Maud Marsh flings herself into American George Benson's cab in Picadilly, he believes he has met a damsel in distress. George traces his mysterious travelling companion to Belpher Castle, home of Lord Marshmoreton, where life is hilariously muddled.

Arrow, 2008; 256 pp.; EN; pb

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The Worst Journey, the Finest Men

This epic novel takes us back to 1912, as Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton are rivals in the race to reach the South Pole. Lawrence Oates joins Scott on his fateful expedition. Ryan brings these extraordinary events to vivid and compelling life.

Headline Reviw, 2009; 500 pp.; EN; hb

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This translation by Henry Francis Cary is  illustrated with petite reproductions of the iconic images of damnation created by 19th-century French illustrator Gustave  Dore.

Signature, 2007; 602 pp.; EN; ills. b/w;  hb

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The prose is smooth and lyrical and unmistakingly Ondaatje. The novel focuses on memory, the past, and violence as his prior works have, but Divisadero takes the concept one step further; it reads more like a collection of three novellas.

Knopf, 2007; 273 pp.; EN; hb

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Read by Christine Baranski, Cynthia Nixon, Alfre Woodard and Shirley Booth

Among the gems in this collection of unabridged readings are her first published short story Such a Pretty Little Picture and her O. Henry Award winner Big Blonde; here too are several other short stories and some of her unsparing reviews

Caedmon, 2004; EN; 5 hrs 30 min; 6 CD's


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Always witty and flamboyant, poet, critic, and biographer Edith Sitwell was a champion of literary modernity. As a younger poet she challenged formal conventionalism with her own verses. Later her poetry sternly turned to class issues.

Overlook, 2006; 445 pp.; EN; index; pb

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Playwright Mark Dunn's first novel is a progressively lipogrammatic epistolary fable about dwindling pangrams on the island of Nollop. The residents love language, but when the Z falls from the monument in the square, the council prohibits the letter.

MacAdam Cage, 2001; 205 pp.; EN; hb

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