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Epitaph for a Spy Eric Ambler 9780141190310
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.11Josef Vadassy, a Hungarian refugee and language teacher living in France, is enjoying his first break for years in a small hotel on the Riviera. But when he takes his holiday photographs to be... -
Uncommon Danger by Eric Ambler
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43Kenton's career as a journalist depends on his facility with languages, his knowledge of European politics and his quick judgement. Where his judgement sometimes fails him, however, is in his... -
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson 9780241685044
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43'The world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master' A. M. HomesLiving in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company,... -
Lolly Willowes Sylvia Townsend Warner 9780241454886
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43'A great shout of life and individuality ... an act of defiance that gladdens the soul' Guardian Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces... -
A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens 9781906838102
RRP: $20.84SciFier: $14.54After years as a prisoner in the Bastille, Dr. Manette is reunited with his daughter in England. There, two men - an exiled French aristocrat and a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer - are... -
Yesterday's Spy by Len Deighton
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43'Deighton at his best' Evening StandardSteve Champion - flamboyant businessman, former leader of an anti-Nazi network in the Second World War - is a man surrounded by mysteries. There are rumours he... -
Journey into Fear Eric Ambler 9780141190303
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43It is 1940 and Mr Graham, a quietly-spoken engineer and arms expert, has just finished high-level talks with the Turkish government. And now somebody wants him dead. The previous night three shots... -
Monkey Wu Ch'eng-en 9780140441116
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43Also known as Journey to the West, Wu Ch'eng-en's Monkey is one of the Four Great Classical Novels in Chinese literature, translated by Arthur Waley in Penguin Classics. Monkey depicts the adventures... -
The Night Manager John le Carre 9780241685051
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $13.21Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesAt the start of it all, Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British... -
The Hopkins Manuscript R. C. Sherriff 9780241349076
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.54The funny and moving story of the apocalypse - as seen from one small village in England'I loved this book, by turns funny and tragic ... It moves between abject despair and good old-fashioned... -
Baby Doll and Other Plays by Tennessee Williams
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $13.97Tennessee Williams's controversial Hollywood screenplay Baby Doll opens with Archie Lee's teenage bride driving him to distraction, as she has refused to consummate their marriage until the day of... -
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky 9780955816949
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $12.80This haunting interpretation, exploring the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of a poor student who murders a miserly pawnbroker, is reimagined in Putin-era St. Petersburg. Hailed a 'resounding... -
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spy by Len Deighton
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $9.13'The master at his peak' Daily TelegraphA Russian scientist is defecting to the West, in order to realize his dreams of contacting extra-terrestrial life among the stars. But when an insubordinate... -
A Small Town in Germany John le Carre 9780141196381
RRP: $12.50SciFier: $11.43'Brilliant, unforgettable ... a masterpiece' New StatesmanWest Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the British... -
Mortal Engines Stanislaw Lem 9780241269077
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43'A virtuoso storyteller ... a Jorge Luis Borges for the Space Age' The New York Times'He was a robot-hypochondriac. On his squeaking cart he carried a complete set of spare parts.'A freighter pilot... -
XPD by Len Deighton
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $13.21'A stunning spy story ... incomparable' GuardianIt is the most dangerous secret of the Second World War, one that could destroy Britain's reputation forever. In 1940, a clandestine meeting took place... -
SS-GB Len Deighton 9780241505526
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43'Deighton's best book ... an absorbingly exciting spy story that is also a fascinating exercise in might-have-been speculation' The New York Times Book ReviewIt is 1941 and Germany has won the war... -
Our Game John le Carre 9780241243619
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.11Le Carre's post-Cold War masterpiece, filled with suspense, betrayal, desire and dramaThe Cold War is over and retired secret servant Tim Cranmer has been put out to pasture, spending his days making... -
The Ticket That Exploded: The Restored Text William S. Burroughs 9780141189772
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.54An outrageous hybrid of pulp science fiction, obscene experimental poetry, and manifesto for revolution, The Ticket That Exploded is a last chance antidote to the virus of lies spread by the ad men... -
The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43A terrifying, surreal space-age odyssey, The Soft Machine initiated Burroughs' Cut-Up Trilogy that includes Nova Express and The Ticket That Exploded. The book draws the reader into an unmappable... -
Billion-Dollar Brain Len Deighton 9780241505168
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43'Dazzlingly intelligent and subtle' Sunday Times'Worth of Raymond Chandler ... intelligent, inventive, constantly entertaining' Sunday TelegraphTexan billionaire General Midwinter will stop at... -
Spy Story by Len Deighton
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.15'Len Deighton's spy novels are so good they make me sad the Cold War is over' Malcolm GladwellAfter six weeks in a nuclear submarine gathering computer data on Soviet activity, the mysterious,... -
Spy Sinker Len Deighton 9780241505496
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43'Dazzling ingenuity and cleverness' Independent'Chilling ... the writing is crisp and brutal' Daily TelegraphOf all the mysteries Bernard Samson has encountered, the greatest is his wife Fiona... -
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.54A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred Hoyle. Tracks the progress of a giant black cloud that comes towards Earth and sits in front of the... -
City of Gold by Len Deighton
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43'A superb example of Deighton's craft' Robert HarrisJanuary 1942. Rommel's troops are at the gates of Egypt, soon to threaten Cairo itself. A spy has been leaking British secrets to the German... -
An Expensive Place to Die by Len Deighton
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43'For sheer readability he has no peer' Evening StandardParis in the 1960's caters for every taste, and nowhere more than at the private 'clinic' run by the enigmatic Monsieur Datt on Avenue Foch,... -
Cause for Alarm Eric Ambler 9780141190327
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.11Nicky Marlow needs a job. He's engaged to be married and the employment market in Britain in 1937 is pretty slim. So when his fiancee points out the position with an English armaments manufacturer in... -
Spy Line Len Deighton 9780241505489
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43'This is vintage Deighton' Sunday Times'Spy Line is vigorous and sleazy, psychologically complex and action-packed. And it is always exciting' Daily MailBernard Samson is a spy on the run. But in the... -
Nova Express: The Restored Text William S. Burroughs 9780141396064
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43The most ferociously political and prophetic book of the Cut-Up Trilogy, Nova Express fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the... -
Mexico Set Len Deighton 9780241505458
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $12.77'Deighton is a marvel ... a tale told by an author at the height of his power' Chicago TribuneWorld-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico... -
Hope Len Deighton 9780241505403
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'A master of fictional espionage' Daily MailWhen Bernard Samson is woken in the middle of the night and discovers an injured man on his doorstep, he knows it will only bring... -
Funeral in Berlin Len Deighton 9780241505380
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43'The classic and gripping spy novel of Cold War Berlin' Guardian1963 Berlin is dark and dangerous. The anonymous hero of The IPCRESS File has been sent to help arrange the defection - in an elaborate... -
Mexico Set Len Deighton 9780241505458 [USED COPY]
RRP: $18.06SciFier: $7.24'Deighton is a marvel ... a tale told by an author at the height of his power' Chicago TribuneWorld-weary agent Bernard Samson is losing control of his personal and professional life. Sent to Mexico... -
Charity by Len Deighton
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43A BERNARD SAMSON NOVEL'The master of espionage writing at his brilliant best' Mail on SundayWith the Cold War drawing to a close in the East, Bernard Samson is still haunted by the events that have... -
Spy Hook Len Deighton 9780241505472
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $10.54'A master of fictional espionage' Daily Mail'In Deighton's best books - like this one - the narrative glides forward on rollers, and the scenes and characters fit perfectly into place. The result is... -
MAMista Len Deighton 9780241505441
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.12'A superb novel ... you will be hooked from the first chapter and enjoy every line' Sunday ExpressDeep in the South American jungle the MAMista Marxist revolutionaries are fighting a hopeless,... -
Dark Tales Shirley Jackson 9780241308493
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43Step into the unsettling world of Shirley Jackson this autumn with a collection of her finest, darkest short stories, revealing the queen of American gothic at her mesmerising best.There's something... -
A Clockwork Orange: Restored Edition Anthony Burgess 9780141197531
RRP: $12.50SciFier: $10.54Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange, with a glossary of the teen slang 'Nadsat', explanatory notes, pages from the original typescript, interviews, articles... -
London Match Len Deighton 9780241505434
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $13.21'Spying at its most captivating and intricate' The Times'Deighton has woven an intricate and satisfying plot, peopled it with convincing characters and even given a new twist to the spy story. But... -
The Sundial Shirley Jackson 9780141391960
RRP: $13.89SciFier: $11.43In The Sundial Shirley Jackson, author of We Have Always Lived in the Castle, blends family politics and apocalyptic terror to create a disturbing world of sinister relations and the macabre.'An...