It is the morning after the Academy Awards. Max, an award-winning writer and his lover, Elena, are hosts to a house full of guests including their daughter, a movie star, a healer and an agent. This tale of love, war, sex, politics, friendship and betrayal moves towards its redemptive end.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers, repackaged as part of the Perennial fiction promotion.

A professor leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the 'centre of the Earth'. They are involved in many adventures, encountering prehistoric animals and natural hazards, and eventually come to the surface again in southern Italy.

Follows the lives of four sisters - tomboyish Jo, beautiful Meg, fragile Beth, and romantic Amy - as they come of age while their father is fighting in the Civil War.

By the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres', this is a novel which skewers both academia and agribusiness. Set in the late 1980s, in a Midwestern agricultural college called Moo University, the story concerns technological foolishness, campus rivalry, sex and intrigue.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning, bestselling novel from one of America's greatest contemporary writers.

A novel of the friendships and woes of two couples, which tells the story of their lives, in lyrical prose, by one of the finest American writers of the late 20th century.

This novel tells the story of a group of six friends whose close and longstanding relationship begins to fall apart when two of them are brutally murdered. Suspicion falls on all of them as their infidelities and lies begin to come to the surface.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres , this is a novel about some very American seductions: money, sex and real estate.

Discusses the pleasure of reading, and why a novel succeeds or doesn't. The author delves into the character of the novelist, and reveals how novels have affected her own life. She describes the process of novel-writing, sharing the secrets of her own habits and theories of creativity. She also offers practical advice to aspiring writers.

An American classic from the bestselling author of the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley draws upon her first-hand knowledge to examine the horse on all levels - practical, theoretical and emotional. Drawing on the wisdom of trainers, vets, jockeys and a real-life horse whisperer, she adds an element of drama and suspense as two of her own horses begin their careers at the racetrack.

From a poverty stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed writer in the English speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of those he created in his novels.Jane Smiley's portrait of the great man offers interpretations of almost all of his major works.

In a house full of guests, Max - an Oscar-winning writer/director whose fame has waned - and his lover, Elena, share their stories of Hollywood past and present, their fears provoked by the Iraq war. They watch films in Max's luxury screening room and gossip by the swimming pool and tussle in the many bedrooms as the tension mounts and sparks fly.

A collection of stories, which depicts the lives and deeds of the Norse men and women who first settled in Iceland and of their descendants, who ventured farther west to Greenland and, ultimately, North America.

It is the morning after the Academy Awards. Max, an award-winning writer and his lover, Elena, are hosts to a house full of guests including their daughter, a movie star, a healer and an agent. Over the course of the next ten life-changing days, they share stories of Hollywood, watch movies and become entangled by the pool.

The verdant pastures of the Karlson farm in Illinois have the placid charm of a landscape painting, but the horses that graze there have become the consuming obsession of a woman who sees in them the ultimate fulfilment of her every wish - to win, to be honoured, to be the best. Her vaulting ambition becomes a tragically destructive force; a force that will drive a wedge between her and her ...

From the author of the Pulitzer-winning A Thousand Acres, two novellas which showcase Jane Smiley's unique gift for capturing the nuances of American domestic life.