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A jury gathers in Manhattan to select a memorial for the victims of a devastating terrorist attack. Their fraught deliberations...

The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart,...

Mimi adores her wild, fun, full-of-life gran. Then Gran starts forgetting things. Suddenly there are cracks appearing all around...

A prime number is inherently a solitary thing: it can only be divided by itself, or by one; it never truly fits with another....

A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred...

The village cleaning lady who holds everyone's house-keys opens a boot to find some unexpectedly dead contents; a vengeful dinner...

A young woman is dead.

A very wealthy client needs a favour. You're newly qualified as a lawyer and this could be your big...

The Shore. A collection of small islands sticking out from the coast of Virginia into the Atlantic Ocean that has been home to...

A beautiful story of love and survival for fans of Ruth Hogan and Sally Page.
A lost child. A Long-kept secret. The house that...

1852.

Margaret Lennox is offered a position as governess at Hartwood Hall. She quickly accepts, hoping this isolated country...

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett is a magical novel for adults and children alike

'I've stolen a garden,' she said...

Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second...

A heart-warming animal story from the master storyteller, Dick King-Smith.

Flora was born on the first day of term in the new...

Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange...

The American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with...

Lindy Morris is stuck. She lives in rural Ireland, banished to a lonely bungalow by her Granda Morris, with only her Auntie Bell...

Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great...

In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs.

The Rose...

A car wreck on the slopes of Mount Morgan puts insurance tycoon Lyman Felt in the hospital. While Lyman recovers, two women meet...

Talbot... , Talbot...

Set against the background of violence and state repression in a turbulent period of French history, The Red Virgin and the...

"Occasionally, you and the team come within read of perfection, up there in the rarefied air of the skies. You never know when...

'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater
Had a wife and couldn't keep her...'

In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel,...

Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets,...

First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative...

Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr; this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections...

A motherless girl grows up in isolated luxury, hidden from the world by her wealthy father. She believes their life together is...

This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at...

On holiday in Suffolk, a boy and his dog discover a World War II pillbox half buried on a deserted beach. When he returns the...

The Ds can't wait to go and stay with Nancy and Peggy in the Lake District during the summer holidays. But when the Amazons’...

Today, burnout and depression are at record levels, driven by a combination of intense workplace competition, the comparative...