A cylinder from space lands in south-west London, and naïve locals approach it armed with a white flag - only to be instantly incinerated by an all-destroying heat-ray, as tentacled Martians emerge. Soon the whole of humanity is under threat, as the invaders build gigantic killing machines that chase and feast on human prey.

Author : H G Wells

Edition : Penguin English Library, Paperback, 208 pages

ISBN : 9780141199047

Weight: 157g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 12mm

Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear.

Author : Mary Shelley

Edition : Penguin English Library, Paperback, 544 pages

ISBN : 9780141198965

Weight: 202g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 13mm

‘The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven…’

In Paradise Lost Milton produced a poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties - blind, bitterly disappointed by the Restoration and briefly in danger of execution - Paradise Lost's apparent ambivalence towards authority has led to intense debate about whether it manages to 'justify the ways of God to men', or exposes the cruelty of Christianity.

Author : John Milton

Edition : Penguin Clothbound Classic, Hardback, 512 pages

ISBN : 9780141394633

Weight: 632g
Dimensions: 204 x 138 x 44mm

'I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.'

As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death.

Why Novel North recommends

‘Wuthering Heights magnifies is gothic, passionate and embodies wilderness - set in the dark and atmospheric moors, nature is almost a character in itself.  Drawing you into the gothic wilderness of Brontë's larger than life protagonists.’

Author : Emily Brontë 

Edition : Penguin Clothbound Classic, Hardback, 416 pages

ISBN : 9780141040356

Weight: 534g
Dimensions: 204 x 138 x 38mm