'For God's sake, hold on!'

On a stormy night off the coast of Scotland, young David Balfour faces his most terrifying test yet. He's been double-crossed by his wicked uncle, tricked into a sea voyage and sold into slavery. When the dashing Alan Breck Stewart comes aboard, he finds a brave friend at least, and the pair fight back against their treacherous, black-hearted shipmates. But then the ship hits a reef, it's every man for himself, and David must battle against the raging sea itself!

Author : Robert Louis Stevenson

Edition : Paperback, 368 pages, Vintage Children’s Classics

ISBN : 9780099573739

Weight: 243g
Dimensions: 188 x 129 x 22mm

'It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language.'

Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her naivety and love of sensational novels lead her to approach the fashionable social scene in Bath and her stay at nearby Northanger Abbey with preconceptions that have embarrassing and entertaining consequences.

Why Novel North Recommends

‘Northanger Abbey is full of adventures and misadventures, intrigue and romance.  It's funny and heartfelt, and a fantastic coming of age story.’

Author : Jane Austen

Edition : Vintage Classics, Paperback, 285 pages

ISBN : 9780099589297

Weight: 221g
Dimensions: 178 x 129 x 19mm

Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a murder is committed in his flat, just days after a chance encounter with an American who had told him about an assassination plot which could have dire international consequences. An obvious suspect for the police and an easy target for the killers, Hannay goes on the run in his native Scotland where he will need all his courage and ingenuity to stay one step ahead of his pursuers.

Author : John Buchan

Edition : Penguin Classics, Paperback, 160 pages

ISBN : 9780141031262

Weight: 118g
Dimensions: 181 x 111 x 12mm

'Ahoy there! This is the Pequod, bound round the world.'

In Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Captain Ahab is an eerily compelling madman who focuses his distilled hatred and suffering (and that of generations before him) into the pursuit of a creature as vast, dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. More than just a novel of adventure, this is a haunting social commentary populated with some of the most enduring characters in literature. Written with wonderfully redemptive humour, Moby Dick is a profound and timeless inquiry into character, faith and the nature of perception.

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these delectable and collectible editions are bound in high-quality colourful, tactile cloth with foil stamped into the design.

Why Novel North Recommends

'Reading Moby Dick, you feel as though you've accomplished something more than reading a classic, you feel as though you yourself have been transported, that you've embarked on an epic voyage and returned changed because of it.  An experience which stays with you.

It’s an incredible feat. Profound and humorous. Epic in scale and uncompromising in detail. An adventure classic.’

Author : Herman Melville 

Edition : Penguin Clothbound Classic, Hardback, 720 pages

ISBN : 9780141199603

Weight: 845g
Dimensions: 204 x 138 x 46mm