Vintage classics

Set against a background of racial injustice in South Africa, this is the story of humble Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo whose son, Absolom is involved in the murder of a white man.

Orphaned at a young age, Eva Trout has found a home of sorts with her former schoolteacher, Iseult Arbles. From a safe distance in London, her legal guardian, Constantine, assumes that all's well. But Eva's flighty, romantic nature hasn't entirely clicked with the Arbles household, and Eva is plotting to escape. When she sets out to disappear without a trace, she unwittingly leaves a paper trail for her various custodians–and all kinds of trouble–to follow.

This is the chilling story of a small boy caught up in the games that adults play. Left in the care of the butler and his wife whilst his parents go on a fortnight's holiday, Philip realises too late the danger of lies and deceit. But the truth is even deadlier.

In the remote Kingdom of Castalia, the scholars of the Twenty Third century play the Glass Bead Game, a fusion of all human knowledge - of maths, music, philosophy, science, and art. Intrigued as a school boy, Joseph Knecht becomes consumed with mastering the game as an adult.

Neil Blair is relishing an expenses-paid holiday in the Italian Dolomites, where he plans to finish his film script. All goes wrong, however, when he stumbles on the location of a hoard of buried Nazi gold. From then on, he faces a terrifying race for his life from a group of murderous criminals.

This classic work portrays a series of encounters in Berlin in the early 1930s between the narrator, William Bradshaw, and the camp and mildly sinister Mr Norris. It evokes the atmosphere in Berlin up to and after the accession of the Nazis to power.