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Nella, daughter of millionaire Theodore Racksole, orders a dinner of steak and beer at the exclusive Grand Babylon Hotel in...

Miserly and mysterious, the richest man in the Five Towns lives simply, ruling his household with an iron fist and a cruel...

No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of...

What on earth could have induced Mr Anstruther to fall in love with Fraulein Schmidt? He is an eligible English bachelor from a...

Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss are both reeling from recent unhappiness when they meet and swiftly fall in love. Lucy is...

Meet Elizabeth and discover there is no greater happiness to be found than when lost in a wilderness of a garden, with bird...

Read this stunning Vintage Classics edition of the original story of alien invasion from the father of science fiction, H.G....

A man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable... this is his story.

They say...

A cautionary horror story about the dangers of greed, isolation and a science without ethics, from the father of science...

Brilliantly imaginative fiction or the shape of things to come? H.G. Wells's masterpiece still retains its power to provoke and...

If you loved BBC4's Hemingway, rediscover this poignant story of the inability to capture lost youth, by the Nobel Prize-winning...

Sherlock star Mark Gatiss selects and introduces chilling tales by the unsung master of the classic ghost story - E.F....

An enjoyable 19th century read following doomed happenings and grisly, secret premonitions.

An eminent doctor is visited by a...

It's 1943 and the war has brought rationing to the Hebridean islands of Great and Little Todday. When food is in short supply, it...

Virginia Woolf's most unusual and fantastic creation, a funny, exuberant tale that examines the very nature of sexuality.

As...

'Shoot all the Bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a Mockingbird.'

Atticus Finch gives this...

Read this stunning translation of Homer's great war epic, the legendary tale of honour, love, loss and revenge during the fall of...

Edwardian era love, society and politics explored in this perfect read for Downton Abbey fans.

Sebastian is young, handsome...

Espionage, adventure and a hard-boiled heroine not to be trifled with - this classic noir will have you gripped from start to...

Mrs Wilkins and Mrs Arbuthnot, cowed and neglected by their husbands, make a daring plan: they will have a holiday. Leaving a...

Sebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, is on bad terms with his socialist father who disapproves of his hedonistic...

There is a sequestered glen off the east coast of the Hudson, New York state, which has long continued under the sway of some...

Wilfred Davis, quiet, retired, respectable widower, is sitting and sobbing on a park bench. He has lost his daughter and any...

Creepy. Peculiar. Fairy. Goblin. Liar. Weirdo. Crank. Genius.

No one knows what to make of Juliet Slater, not even her mother....

Previously titled Pistols for Two, this collection includes three of Heyer’s earliest short stories, published together in book...

Born into poverty and living under the roof of her violent and abusive brother-in-law, young Kitty Cox dreams of working in a...

A romantic and comic gem from a precocious Victorian nine-year-old that has charmed readers for a century

The Young Visiters...

'What a mad thing to go and do. Jolly sporting, though.'

Suspicion abounds at St Austin's School when two silver trophies, or...

'Home looks nice. Allus does though, don't it? Perfick'

One pleasant May evening, Pop and Ma Larkin and their six children -...

A Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea

1813, and Horatio Hornblower is propelled toward the heart of the French Empire and his...