Skippy Dies: From the author of The Bee Sting

Paul Murray

'Skippy and Ruprecht are having a doughnut-eating race one evening when Skippy turns purple and falls off his chair.' And so begins this epic, tragic, comic, brilliant novel set in and around Dublin's Seabrook College for Boys. Principally concerning the lives, loves, mistakes and triumphs of overweigh...

Works and Days

Hesiod; A. E. Stallings (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator)

The ancient Greeks revered Hesiod, believing he had beaten Homer in a singing contest and that after his dead body was thrown to sea, it was brought back by dolphins. His Works and Days is one of the most important early works of Greek poetry. Ostensibly written by the poet to chide his lazy brother, it...

The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Emerging from their smoke-filled rooms at 21B Baker Street, Holmes and Watson grapple with the forces of crime that stalk the streets of London. From the first story, 'A Scandal in Bohemia' where Holmes is foiled by the quick-thinking of 'the woman', Irene Adler, to what was presumed to be the last, 'Th...