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Maugham's studies of the lives and masterpieces of ten great novelists are outstanding examples of literary criticism at its...

Tamara Drewe has transformed herself. Plastic surgery, a different wardrobe, a smouldering look, have given her confidence and a...

The Mayfair Witches face an unimaginable new threat: the Taltos - the giant race gifted with preternatural knowledge, who breed...

Love is messy. Love can make us feel alive. It can also bring us down. Sometimes we look for it in all the wrong places. This is...

John, Susan, Titty and Roger return to the lake for another summer camping on their island with their old allies, Nancy and...

As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning.

A blind man on his...

Nick and Laura are the hosts: pretending their marriage isn't on the rocks.

Madison and Bastian are the guests: neither is...

When Commissario Brunetti is summoned to the hospital bedside of a senior paediatrician whose skull has been brutally fractured,...

Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until...

This wide-ranging anthology pays tribute to fathers young and old. At one end of the spectrum, a touching story by Ann Packer...

Barney is a solitary little boy, given to wandering off by himself. One day he is lying on the edge of a disused chalk-pit when...

The subjects of Salman Rushdie's collection of non-fiction range from The Wizard of Oz, U2, India and Indian writing, the death...

On a freezing winter's night, a small craft skims the Thames towards London's most exclusive riverside hotel. On board is a lone...

Help Spot count the stars to fall asleep in this cosy bedtime story - with real glowing lights!

Spot and his family are on a...

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832) is one of the towering figures of world culture, a universal man whose extraordinary...

You can't believe all of them . . . But can you trust any of them?

Widower Kane Black has been hollowed by grief.

Until he...

Two families. One night. A constellation of lives changed forever.
When retired doctor Ben Wilf comes across ten-year-old Waldo...

1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed.

For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's...

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the...

The hit BBC series Sherlock, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, offers a fresh, contemporary take on the classic Sir Arthur Conan...

Cheltenham Races, New Year's Eve.
Gerard Logan witnesses the death of his close friend, jockey Martin Stukely, after a fall from...

One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of...

Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction...

The finest and most enjoyable of Virginia Woolf's letters are brought together in a single volume. It is a marvellous collection...

In this frightening and surprising novel, the eccentric, wayward genius of Commissaire Adamsberg is pitted against the...

The ancient sports of murder and myth

Stunned by a dramatic appeal from his otherwise cool mother-in-law, Falco cannot resist....

John, Susan, Titty and Roger, the crew of the Swallow, take on the job of mapping the mass of small islands round Pin Mill while...

Ngugi wa Thiong'o is renowned for his political novels and plays, yet he honed his craft as a short story writer. First published...

When President Habyarimana’s jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing – which left up...

Can revelations from the past help them start a new life?

Three women came to the remote Cornish cottage that summer: Jenna,...