A love letter to the original ‘green spines’, reimagined for today’s reader.

The new Modern Classics look with ten handpicked ‘classics-with-bite’ showcasing the dazzling range of the list, from beloved novels to acerbic essays, unsettling masterpieces to feminist gamechangers. The ten titles - comprising in this Classics With Bite bundle - include provocative classics from Muriel Spark, Gayl Jones and Patricia Highsmith, BookTok favourite Girl, Interrupted and the Sunday Times bestseller Fran Lebowitz Reader.

The classics with bite bundle includes:

This Sweet Sickness by Patricia Highsmith

Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann

The Tortoise and the Hare by Elizabeth Jenkins 

The Street by Ann Petry

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Good Behaviour by Molly Keane

Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

The Fran Lebowitz Reader 

Corregidora by Gayl Jones

A Far Fry from Kensington by Muriel Spark