An irresistibly brilliant examination of modern conscience

Camus is the accused, his own prosecutor and advocate. The Fall might have been called 'The Last Judgement'

Christine Donougher's seamless and very modern translation of Les Misérables has an astonishing effect in that it reminds readers that Hugo was going further than any Dickensian lament about social conditions ... The Wretched touches the soul

The ultimate novel about writing a novel

An amazing book, seeming like a modern experimental novel but written in the 18th century by an Anglican clergyman. You can dip in and out of it with constant pleasure.

Has inspired and provoked writers as various as Dickens, Joyce and Salman Rushdie

Tristram Shandy’s open, digressive form offers both an alternative to the inevitable reductions of plot and a foil to the tyranny of the will to system.