Selected Fiction, Biography and Memoir Books at Karnac Books

Heroes and Villains

A modern fable, a post-apocalyptic romance, a gothic horror story; Angela Carter's genre-defying fantasia Heroes and Villains includes an introduction by Robert Coover in Penguin Modern... (more)

Shaking A Leg: Collected Journalism and Writings

by Angela Carter

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY RACHEL COOKE

Reading Shaking a Leg is like spending time with the funniest, wisest friend you've ever had; a person whose breadth of interest ranges from food to... (more)

To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation

by Paul Farmer

Doctor and social activist Paul Farmer shares a collection of charismatic short speeches that aims to inspire the next generation. One of the most passionate and influential voices for global health... (more)

Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers

by Cheryl Misak

When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to... (more)

Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis

by Catrine Clay

The story of Emma and Carl Jung's highly unconventional marriage, their relationship with Freud, and their part in the early years of Psychoanalysis. Emma Jung was clever,... (more)

Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness

by Lisa Appignanesi

This book journeys into the heart of dark passions and the crimes they impel. When passion is in the picture, what is criminal, what sane, what mad or simply bad?Brighton, 1870: A well-respected... (more)

Beloved

by Toni Morrison

It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentuckhy, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The worlds of Halle and Paul D. are to be destroyed in a cataclysm of torment... (more)

The Years

by Virginia Woolf

'A brilliant fantasia of all Time's problems, age and youth, change and permanence, truth and illusion' The Times Literary Supplement.

The Years is the story of the Pargiter family - their... (more)

The Waves

by Virginia Woolf

'Clear, bright, burnished ... the moods that it expresses are a true kind of poetry' The New York Times.

Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from... (more)

To the Lighthouse

by Virgina Woolf

'One of the greatest elegies in the English language, a book which transcends time' Margaret Drabble.

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family, the Ramseys,... (more)

Orlando:

by Virginia Woolf

'A fantasy, impossible but delicious ... an exuberance of life and wit' The Times Literary Supplement.

First masculine, then feminine, Orlando begins life as a young sixteenth-century nobleman,... (more)

Stories of the Soviet Experience: Memoirs, Diaries, Dreams

by Irina Paperno

Beginning with glasnost in the late 1980s and continuing into the present, scores of personal accounts of life under Soviet rule, written throughout its history, have been published in Russia,... (more)