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'If I really don't like somebody, I kill him . . . You remember Malcolm McRae, don't you?'

Melinda Van Allen is beautiful,...

A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the...

It's Saturday, past midnight, and thick fog rolls in from the river like smoke. Link Williams is standing on the dock when he...

In the bitter November wind, Mary Yellan crosses Bodmin Moor to Jamaica Inn. Her mother's dying wish was that she take refuge...

The scar drew her whole face sideways and even in profile, with the hideous thing turned away, her face was horribly lop-sided,...

A delightfully appealing 1930s comedy from Angela Thirkell's classic Barsetshire series: the Brandons cheerfully confront matters...

S... , Ross...

Major Sinclair Yeates leaves England to work as an Irish Resident Magistrate convinced that two and two make four. But as he...

Prudence Sarn was born with a cleft palate, her 'precious bane', for which she is persecuted as a witch by her superstitious...

A lonely boy living on his uncle's farm in the Lincolnshire Fens, Richard Mardick's solitary existence is interrupted by a chance...

'Beyond the fact that it was, in face of a vivid and calamitous ending, to reveal from his own experience the ardent splendours...

Alice Barton finds adventure during a Friday-to-Monday at a grand country house in Angela Thirkell's classic, deliciously...

'Dear Sir, I suppose you are pretty pleased with yourself? Superior to everyone, you think. A fancy apartment and a snob dog. You...

Dorothy L Sayers' amateur sleuth returns in this collection of three stories, featuring a brand new introduction. A must-read for...

'I do know how to behave - believe me, because I know. I have always known...'

Behind the gates of Temple Alice the...

The oyster party had the kiss of death upon it - even though there were two 'R's in the month. Miriam Birdseye - famed revue star...

This volume covers a wide span, from late 1954 through to 1963, the years during which Dick began writing novels prolifically and...

Formidable Miss Doggett fills her life by giving tea parties for young academics and acting as watchdog for the morals of North...

One glorious gothic mansion - Garonlea - and two rather different ladies who would be Queen . . .

Lady Charlotte...

"It's the truth," the women said from their mattress "Everything is nice".

Alva, a widow, states a preference for plain...

A normal man on Earth, but a warrior and prince on Mars

John Carter, veteran of the American Civil War, finds himself...

The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It...

The seventy-fifth anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Anthony Quinn.

London, 1939, and in the grimy publands of...

The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It...

Mildred Lathbury is one of those excellent women who are often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most...

Catherine Oliphant is a writer and lives with handsome anthropologist Tom Mallow. Their relationship runs into trouble when he...

‘I was running on happily because it was so good to be able to watch him under cover of my own talk, knowing exactly now what I...

At the turn of the twentieth century, two children play on an English beach. Eustace, a gentle, dreamy, boy with a weak heart,...

An extraordinary portrait of the vanished world of pre-1914 Hungary, They Were Counted is an epic story told through the eyes of...

Ernest Ralph Gorse's heartlessness and lack of scruple are matched only by the inventiveness and panache with which he swindles...

Gaspard Winckler, master forger, is trapped in a basement studio on the outskirts of Paris, with his paymaster's blood on his...