New This Month

We begin the year with At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien’s madcap exploration of Irish literature and mythology, read by Aidan Kelly. The book has attracted much praise from writers and critics alike, with James Joyce calling it the work of a ‘real writer’. Rupert Degas returns with South, Ernest Shackleton’s terrifying account of his perilous Antarctic expedition, while Jonathan Keeble delivers supernatural terror in Wilkie Collins’s suspenseful and exciting horror story, The Haunted Hotel. We also have Thomas Hardy’s star-crossed romance Two on a Tower, read by Leighton Pugh, and Charlotte Brontë’s first novel The Professor, read by Roger May.

More preoccupied with drinking, sleeping and writing, an unnamed student neglects his studies and invents three separate openings…

On 8 August 1914, five days after the outbreak of World War One, the Endurance, a wooden-hulled, coal-fired icebreaker, set sail for…

When Lord Montbarry dies suddenly in his Venice palace, and his courier goes missing, suspicion is instantly thrown on his new wife…

Deep in the grounds of Welland House lies an ancient memorial tower, surrounded by a prehistoric wilderness that isolates it from the rest…

Unpublished at the time of her death, The Professor is the first novel written by Charlotte Brontë, and the seed of her later books…

The NAB Blog: Truly Original – Films and TV shows of classic books

The Christmas period brought with it its fair share of adaptations – for both the small and big screens – of classic books. The new adaptation of Little Women, a book that had been made into a film six times …

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