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'High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables where rose wine was being...

'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither...

This is the story of an old English manor house by the sea, with crumbling chimneys, draping ivy and a library full of dusty...

If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian...

London, 1842. There has been a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London's newest and grandest gentleman's club. A...

He went out, lit his pipe and walked slowly to the harbour. He could hear scurrying footsteps behind him. The sea was becoming...

The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton in...

Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

'The palm trees around the railway station were motionless, fixed in a Saharan sun . . . It really felt as if they were stepping...

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for...

In more than a century since its appearance, Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere has become widely known as the great novel of the...

Surrounded by the dramatic beauty of Guernsey, a teenager discovers a secret and finds his betrayal has the power to ruin adult...

'People who've been here a long time have been talking about him. This morning, when I was having my coffee and croissants, it...

When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell any food. He went in, crossed the...

Maude Slocum is in trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer's business.


A well-dressed, wealthy woman has...

'What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or,...

They say the Hollow Sea is cursed. A wild expanse separating the remote islands of St Hia, not even the locals brave its...

One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona,...

Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking...

A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.

'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that...

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which...

Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes?

Meet Sam
She's not got much, but she's grateful for what she...

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family...

Inside lies a secret that won't stay hidden…
The Great War is ending, but it has taken Ivy's son. Ivy is consumed by discovering...

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets...

There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. Almost as if by magic, in city...

When Celeste loses her best friend Hannah, she'll do anything to keep her spirit alive.

So when she uncovers her friend's old...

'You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words...

'Florentin pulled one of those faces which had once amused his classmates so much and disarmed the teachers . . .

Maigret...