Jeremy Northam

January 1937. Jack Miller is given the chance to join an arctic expedition, as communications expert, by a group of elite Oxbridge graduates. As the young men set sail from a gloomy Britain on the verge of war, little can he imagine the horrors that await him in their destination, Gruhuken, a place that cannot escape the savage echo of its past. Richard & Judy Bookclub

Set during the Cold War and featuring all the glamour, thrills and excitement that one would expect from any adventure involving Bond, Faulks has written a continuation of the 'James Bond' legacy picking up from where Fleming left off in 1966.

George Orwell's acclaimed memoir of his time among the poor and destitute in London and Paris. He documents a world of unrelenting drudgery and squalor; sleeping in bug-infested hostels and doss houses, living alongside tramps and surviving on scraps and cigarette butts, in an unforgettable account of what being down and out is really like.

Wormold is a vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of power cuts. His adolescent daughter spends his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. In return all he has to do is carry out a little espionage and file a few reports. But when his fake reports start coming true, things suddenly get more complicated and Havana becomes a threatening place.

A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.