Winner of the Man Booker Prize, The Line of Beauty is a classic novel about class, politics and sexuality in Margaret Thatcher''s 1980s Britain. There was the soft glare of the flash - twice - three times - a gleaming sense of occasion, the gleam floating in the eye as a blot of shadow, his heart running fast with no particular need of courage as he grinned and said, ''Prime Minister, would you like to dance?'' In the summer of 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest moves into an attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy Feddens: Gerald, an ambitious Tory MP, his wife Rachel and their children Toby and Catherine. Innocent of politics and money, Nick is swept up into the Feddens'' world and an era of endless possibility, all the while pursuing his own private obsession with beauty. The Line of Beauty is Alan Hollinghurst''s Man Booker Prize-winning masterpiece. It is a novel that defines a decade, exploring with peerless style a young man''s collision with his own desires, and with a world he can never truly belong to.

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Bret Easton Ellis''s American Psycho is a cult classic, adapted into a film starring Christian Bale. Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and works on Wall Street; he is handsome, sophisticated, charming and intelligent. He is also a psychopath. Taking us to a head-on collision with America''s greatest dream - and its worst nightmare - AmericanPsycho is a bleak, bitter, black comedy about a world we all recognize but do not wish to confront. American Psycho is one of the most controversial and talked-about novels of all time - a multimillion-copy bestseller hailed as a modern classic.