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Little Tales of Misogyny is Highsmith's legendary, cultish short-story collection. With an eerie simplicity of style, Highsmith...

'Ramon had done it. Obviously! He thought about Ramon, his Catholic soul trapped in his passion for Lelia. He'd find Ramon and...

The wail of sirens and the bombs of the Luftwaffe shook the people of the Avenue out of their dreams and preoccupations, bringing...

Jim Carver - a tough, resolute war veteran, he returns from the trenches to build a better life for his family to find his wife...

Opulence. Invasion. Terror. And forbidden passion in 1930s Singapore.

'They were the golden days, when Singapore was as rich...

1912-1940
A generation fallen.
A country that will never be the same again.

Nowhere in England avoids the searing loss of...

1552. Fifteen years after Henry VIII's brutal reformation of the monasteries, Catholics in England still live in fear. When...

Miner's son David Powlett-Jones returns from the carnage of the Western Front in 1918, shell-shocked and bitterly hardened by the...

Adam Swann's expanding business empire now stretches as far north as the Scottish Highlands and as far west as the Dublin Pale....

Adam Swann is hungry for success. He is one of the new breed of entrepreneurs thrown up by the Industrial Revolution, determined...

A classic tale of fantasy and self-delusion from one of the most acclaimed British novelists of the twentieth century

Writing...

'His first instinct was to stretch out his hands to the sky. The white clouds seemed so near to him, surely they were easy to...

Susan Ferrier sold more copies of her novels than her contemporary, Jane Austen. Sir Walter Scott declared her his equal. Why,...

'And so at the Majestic everything returned to the way it had been before. The gleaming tiles became dulled. Sofas as sleek as...

Suppressed by the author during her lifetime, this is Rebecca West's fictionalized account of her obsessive love for Lord...

'Who would suspect her sense of fun and irony, of a passionate love for beauty and the power to drag it from its hidden places?...

It was on an afternoon in May 1844 when the letter came from Dragonwyck. Tired of life on her father's farm in Connecticut,...

‘During that burning day when we were crossing Iowa, our talk kept returning to a central figure, a Bohemian girl whom we had...

Both a spellbinding love story and a superb evocation of Cornwall's mythic past, Castle Dor is a book with unique and fascinating...

New York City, 1940s. In a crumbling tenement in Harlem, Lutie Johnson is determined to build a new life for herself and her...

'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...

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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...