The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf

The Waves (Vintage Classics Woolf Series) by Virginia Woolf'Virginia Woolf wanted to write about the vast unknown uncertain continent that is the world and us in it' Jeanette Winterson, from her introduction to The Waves The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful and poetic novel. It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Regarded by many as her greatest work, The

Before Isabel has even cracked the spine of a novel she bought on a whim ahead of an overseas trip

From a missing or not-so-missing calculator to the appearance of strange holes in the school field

there is a rumour in Whitehall - unconfirmed and a little scandalous - that George Smiley might almost be happy

such secrets as it can reveal

Rachel Gillig was born and raised on the California coast

choosing your best surf spot

The only person he has left is Fiona

'Important and necessary and bold

But factories shut

  Adrian Carton de Wiart's autobiography is one of the most remarkable of military memoirs

But all too soon that time is over

taught from the cradle to put family first