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'Fifteen men on the dead man's chest –Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!'

When young Jim Hawkins finds an old map showing the...

From the Collins Crime Club archive, the third Inspector French novel by Freeman Wills Crofts, once dubbed 'The King of Detective...

‘Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had...

The lost classic masterpiece of magical realms, admired by Tolkien and the great prototype for The Lord of the Rings and modern...

As a favour to an old friend, Hercule Poirot finds himself at a summer fete in Devon, taking part not in a Treasure Hunt, but a...

The second novel in Lewis’s science fiction trilogy tells of Dr Ransom’s voyage to the planet of Perelandra (Venus).

In the...

As heard on Radio 4 and seen on Netflix, Nella Larsen’s Passing is a distinctive and revealing novel about racial...

Demelza Carne, the impoversished miner's daughter rescued from a fairground rabble, is now Ross Poldark's wife. But events are...

In 1588 the Spanish Armada had been defeated in the English Channel and the whole of Elizabethan England was alert for the...

Peter, Phyllis and Roberta’s lives change overnight when their father is taken away by two strangers. They move from the comfort...

Mark Twain’s first historical novel, The Prince and the Pauper, is a classic adventure of mistaken identity that champions social...

James Weldon Johnson’s The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man is a powerful, trailblazing novel that exposes the intricate...

"Новые тысяча и одна ночь" - сборник рассказов шотландского писателя Роберта Льюиса Стивенсона, впервые опубликованный в 1882...

'It is the Valley of Fear, the Valley of Death. The terror is in the hearts of the people from the dusk to the dawn. Wait, young...

'Down the Strand the lamps were but misty splotches of diffused light which threw a feeble circular glimmer upon the slimy...

'"Holmes!" I cried. "Is it really you? Can it indeed be that you are alive? Is it possible that you succeeded in climbing out of...

'He is the Napoleon of Crime... He is the organiser of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected in this great...

'Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than...

'About to spring out upon my appalled senses, lurked all that was vaguely horrible, all that was monstrous and inconceivably...

A bloody curse fells four before Miss Silver investigates in this classic crime mystery.

Judy Elliot, meeting an old friend,...

Mildred Pierce is the story of a determined and ambitious woman who, after her feckless husband abandons her, by hard work and...

First published in 1962 as 'La Placa del Diamant', this is considered the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new...

In the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader...

Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with...

In 1842, eight years before his death, Balzac described Ursule Mirouet as the masterpiece of all the studies of human society...

Poor Pongo Twistleton must endure his sixty-year-old Uncle Fred once a year. But this year, mischievous Uncle Fred has gone too...

Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and...

Two strangers meet on a bus along a dusty road in rural France. Tati is a tough, work-worn widow, who runs the farm her late...

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a...