Novel

The Loved One

Short, satirical novel by British novelist Evelyn Waugh about the funeral business in Los Angeles, the British expatriate community in Hollywood, and the film industry.

A Confederacy of Dunces

Picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole’s suicide

The Warden

Novel by English author Anthony Trollope published by Longman in 1855. It is the first book in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, followed by Barchester Towers.

The Great Railway Bazaar

Travelogue by American novelist Paul Theroux, first published in 1975. It recounts Theroux’s four-month journey by train in 1973 from London through Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, and his return via the Trans-Siberian Railway

Lark Rise to Candleford

Trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels by Flora Thompson about the countryside of north-east Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire, England, at the end of the 19th century

The Hobbit

Children’s fantasy novel by English author J. R. R. Tolkien