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'They cut her hair before they dragged her to the place of sacrifice. Her mouth was gagged to stop her cursing her father, her...

No goodbye

When Leonard Franks and his wife Ellie left London for their dream retirement in the seclusion of Dartmoor,...

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

When three teens are landed with a community service order after an incident involving a spray can and an inconveniently timed...

Eyes half-closed, head tilted against the back of his seat, he seemed not to be thinking, as the plane flew over a thick carpet...

I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if...

Ivan Turgenev's Fathers and Sons explores the ageless conflict between generations through a period in Russian history when a new...

Meet Ingrid. She works on a gargantuan luxury cruise liner, where she spends her days reorganizing the merchandise and waiting...

Soldier. Farmer. Felon. Writer. Father. Lover.
One man, many lives.

Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross experiences myriad...

Dancing is the one thing that can solve Stephen's problems.

At Church with his family, the shimmer of Black hands raised in...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers with its...

Penny Calvin has questions.

Placed for adoption sixteen years ago, she's desperate to get to know the mother she's never...

Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of...

They suddenly found themselves in an impersonal world, where everyday words no longer seemed to mean anything, where the most...

They ran into cloud cover as they approached the French coast and flew up above it. Through a break in the clouds a little later,...

In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare...

Cornwall, 1940.

In the hushed hours of deepest night a young woman is found washed up on the rocks.

Was it a tragic...

If you feed a starving woman, what will she grow into?

Twenty-nine year old Roberta has spent her whole life hungry. So she...

A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after...

About to turn forty, Alice feels stuck: She works at the school she attended. Her boyfriend isn't the man of her dreams. And her...

Darwin is a down-on-his-luck gravedigger, newly arrived in the Trinidadian city of Port Angeles to seek his fortune, young and...

'This was natural. It is the same everywhere. Rarely, however, had Maigret had such a strong sense of a clique. In a small town...

In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season, reliving the best days of...

In this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker,...

Monsieur Goriot is one of a disparate group of lodgers at Mademe Vauquer's dingy Parisian boarding house. At first his wealth...

'Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one...

A comic masterpiece that has never been out of print since it was first published in 1889, Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men in a Boat...

A minibus journeys through rural Mexico. Inside it are twelve strangers on a pilgrimage to the White Rock, which stands, ancient...

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play...

'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide

Michel had...