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A brilliant novel about the damage caused by relentless 'niceness'. Uncritical, encouraging, 'the soul of kindness', Flora's help...

While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular...

In a provincial university town, Caro Grimstone, a dissatisfied faculty wife, becomes the unwilling accomplice to her husband...

The psychologists would call it folie a deux . . .

'Bruno slammed his palms together. "Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your...

Wilmet Forsyth is well dressed, well looked after, suitably husbanded, good-looking and fairly young - but very bored. Her sober...

One night a shooting star is seen over the skies of Surrey. The next day, it's discovered to have been a mysterious metallic...

An unforgettable picture of love, loss and the keeping up of appearances. Published as part of a beautifully designed series to...

Dulcie Mainwaring is always helping others, but never looks out for herself - especially in the realm of love. Her friend Viola...

This is the first time Elizabeth Taylor's short stories have been collected in one volume. This publication is to mark the...

The second volume of Miklos Banffy's panoramic trilogy of the dying years of the Habsburg empire.

The tale of two...

The people of Mount Salus, Mississippi always felt good about Judge McKelva. He was a quiet, solid reassuring figure, just as a...

Intelligent and haunting, with echoes of Brief Encounter, this is a love story by one of the best British writers of the 20th...

Published to celebrate the centenary of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers, this is the most comprehensive...

From the author of I Capture the Castle and The Hundred and One Dalmatians, an unusual adventure in which humour and more than a...

Hot-headed Lilia is seen as nothing but a vulgar source of embarrassment to her late husband's family, so her decision to embark...

A chance encounter with the man who enchanted her as a teenager leads Olivia Curtis into to a forbidden love affair. He is now...

It was here at the Manor House that Norman Blood, captain of England, spent his childhood playing cricket with the vicar's...

On a rainy Sunday in January, the recently widowed Mrs Palfrey arrives at the Claremont Hotel where she will spend her remaining...

When Prince Charming is murdered and the principal dancer hits the bottle, amateur sleuths Miriam Birdseye and Natasha Nevkorina...

In these powerful and elegant tales, Edith Wharton evokes moods of disquiet and darkness within her own era. In icy new England a...

The Midnight Bell, a pub on the Euston Road, is the pulse of this brilliant and compassionate trilogy. It is here where the...

This is a Kafka emergency kit, a congregation of the brief, the minor works that are actually major. Joshua Cohen has produced a...

The Man Who Loved Islands presents Lawrence's skilled, intimate and lively portraits of humanity. In the title story a man buys a...

Miguel Street, V. S. Naipaul's first written work of fiction, is set in a derelict corner of Port of Spain, Trinidad, during...

"First you take a drink," F. Scott Fitzgerald once noted, "then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you." Fitzgerald...

It is 1913, and Viennese high society is determined to find an appropriate way of celebrating the seventieth jubilee of the...

When Mark Brian, a young priest, is sent to the Indian village of Kingcome in British Columbia, he finds himself in an...

One of Charles Dickens's most renowned and enjoyable novels, Great Expectations tells the story of Pip, an orphan boy who wishes...

Bringing together all Charles Dickens' ghost stories - twenty in all - including several longer tales. Here are chilling...

The art of telling a ghost story is a refined one, and Montague Rhodes James was a master of the genre.

Designed to appeal to...