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Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa.

A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she...

There's something wrong next door. At least, that's what neighbors Howie Jeffries and Emily Phane both think. Since his daughter...

An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits,...

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 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...

'A masterpiece' The Times

After the tragic deaths of their parents, Magdalen and Norah discover the devastating news that they...

'As a writer of the English language there has been no one to touch Stevenson in a hundred years...as a story-teller he is...

'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...

Young, newly married and intensely ambitious, Michael Davenport is trying to make a living as a writer. His adoring wife, Lucy,...

The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the...

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

Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older...

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...

Richard Yates was acclaimed as one of the most powerful, compassionate and accomplished writers of America's post-war generation....

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...

Sherlock Holmes stars in Doyle’s most famous detective story.

The Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying,...

At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are...

Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead....

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...

France. A skint, clapped-out British philosopher meets an incompetent, freshly released, one-armed, armed robber. The Thought...

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...