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First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking...

Blunt, brutal, but infused with a deep sympathy, Knockemstiff is a pitch-dark and hilarious collection of stories set in a tiny...

The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a...

The prequel to the bestselling Suite Francaise

Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man.

The...

Vienna, 1903.

Outside one of the city's most splendid baroque churches, the decapitated body of a monk is found. Then, the...

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic...

A heartwarming and poignant tale of a lonely man brought back to life and faith.

Silas Marner lives a friendless and isolated...

'I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year'


Becky Sharp is a poor orphan when she first makes friends...

'Facts alone are wanted in life'

The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and...

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But...

Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house....

In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of...

It all started with a silly prank, a play and a dance - a love so enduring, so indestructible that it would survive against all...

'Wickedly good' John Updike

In a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram...

There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane.
Why did a Hercules...

An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by...

Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the...

Willie Upton returns to her ancestral home of Templeton, New York after a disastrous affair with her married archaeology...

'I came fully equipped with the old prejudice that anything to do with Egypt involved corruption and deceit.'

AD 77. Egypt was...

‘What did he eat last? Whom did he eat, in fact?’

Lumbered with working alongside reptilian Chief Spy Anacrites, Falco has the...

‘The first concern of an author is to do down his colleagues.’

In the long, hot Roman summer of AD 74, Falco, private informer...

A frightened child approaches Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco, pleading for help. Nobody believes Gaia's story that a relation...

'The fountain was not working. Nothing unusual in that...'

Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their...

Nobody was poisoned at the dinner for the Society of Olive Oil Producers of Baetica, though in retrospect this was quite a...

Petronius Longus, captain of the Aventine watch and Falco's oldest friend, has finally nailed one of Rome's top criminals. Under...

AD 71, Germania Libera: dark dripping forests, inhabited by bloodthirsty barbarians and legendary wild beasts, a furious...

Things are going well for Marcus Didius Falco, ancient Rome's investigator: he hates sharing a cell with a rodent, although being...

Rome, AD 71: Against his better judgement, Marcus Didius Falco secretly disposes of a decayed corpse for the Emperor Vespasian,...

Marcus Didius Falco is a private informer, the closest thing that first-century Rome has to a detective.

A new emperor,...