First published in 1954, this book is a hilarious satire of British university life. Jim has accidentally fallen into a job at one of the new red brick universities. A ...

Impish, foul-mouthed Zazie arrives in Paris from the country to stay with Gabriel, her female-impersonator uncle. All she really wants to do is ride the metro, but finding it ...

The story of a London academic whose romance with a visiting Russian poet threatens his career, provides Britain's favourite comic novelist the opportunity to skewer ...