2011 April

When Buck is stolen from his master to pull the sleds of gold prospects in northern Canada, the dog enters a world of cruelty and hardship that brings out his animal instincts. But will Buck ever be able to return to the comfortable and civilized life he was torn away from or will he embrace the call of the wild?

Eight years in the making, James Joyce’s Ulysses is a literary landmark that charts the experiences of its characters on one day in Dublin in 1904 and helped to define modern literature.

In this science fiction classic, Captain Nemo and his crew travel the world’s seas in the submarine Nautilus, lured on by tales of sea monsters. During their amazing adventures they encounter scientific wonders, travel to remote islands and discover magical coral gardens, sunken treasure, strange creatures and other mysteries of the deep…

Gold! Pirates! Treachery! Robert Louis Stevenson’s thrilling tale of adventure on the high seas has it all. Join the young Jim Hawkins and his crew as they set sail in search of the hidden treasure of the infamous pirate Captain Flint.

In this classic science fiction tale, an unnamed inventor creates a machine that can travel in time and sets out to see what the future will bring. His amazing journeys take him to a dystopian future where peaceful humanoids are terrorised at night by an underground race of monsters and onto the last days of Earth.

Seventeen-century Boston is a community repressed by its own puritanical outlook, but the more it strives to contain sin the more ridiculous it becomes.

A dark secret lurks in the attic of the seemingly Dorian Gray: a portrait that ages instead of him. And while his outer appearance remains untarnished, his painted image grows ever older and more hideous reflecting the damage of his wild lifestyle. First published in 1890, The Picture of Dorian Gray is a gothic tale of a man leading a double life that is packed with Oscar Wilde’s trademark wit and aestheticism.

Considered the definitive Hindu work on sexual relations, Vatsyayana’s ancient text explores the link between sexuality and spirituality.

A band of pilgrims are heading from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St Thomas Becket and decide to pass the time by recounting amazing stories of love, adventure, crime and religion that have enchanted people for centuries.

Join the world’s greatest detective and his assistant Dr Watson in this collection of 12 mysteries that range from bizarre disappearances and unusual deaths to the theft of precious gems.