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A young woman found murdered

A scandal in the making

When Mrs Bantry wakes to find a body in her library, there’s only one...

‘The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.’

When Basil Hallward paints the portrait of young, handsome Dorian...

‘Orlando had become a woman – there is no denying it. But in every other respect, Orlando remained precisely as he had been. The...

‘Big Brother is Watching You.’

Winston Smith rewrites history. It’s his job. Hidden away in the Record Department of the...

Sayers... , Carr John...

Classic crime fiction's 'Indiana Jones' Tony Medawar unearths more unpublished and uncollected stories from the Golden Age of...

First ever standalone edition of one of J.R.R. Tolkien's most important poetic dramas, that explores timely themes such as the...

To mark the publishing centenary of Freeman Wills Crofts, ‘The King of Detective Story Writers’, this is one of six classic crime...

Brand... , Marsh...

This annual anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for...

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This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the...

"For a time I believed that mankind had been swept out of existence, and that I stood there alone, the last man left...

‘It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and then the sad moan in which...

Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said: ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’ ‘I dare say you haven’t had much...

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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...

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

In Shakespeare's thrilling and hugely influential tragedy, ageing King Lear makes a capricious decision to divide his realm...

Shakespeare’s gentle melancholy, enlivened by a comic sub-plot of considerable accomplishment, has long made Twelfth Night a...

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

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

A special edition from Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning classics that make perfect gifts or a treat for any...

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

One of the greatest crime novels of the 20th century.

Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her...

One night Melanie walks through the garden in her mother's wedding dress. The next morning her world is shattered. Forced to...

'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...

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