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A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret series

Not only had...

'There were some weeks that were painful, nerve-racking. At the office or at home, in the middle of a meal, he would suddenly...

A compelling portrait of a society in the grip of imperialism, A Passage to India depicts the fate of individuals caught in the...

'You'll get used to things, you'll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.'

Adil Bey is an...

The night's over for Ulysses Galen. It started going bad for the big Greek when a knife was drawn, then there was an axe, then he...

A preacher called Deke O'Malley's been selling false hope: the promise of a glorious new life in Africa for just $1,000 a family....

Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for turning ten dollar bills into hundreds. But when...

Nancy Mitford's brilliantly witty, irreverent stories of the upper classes in pre-war London and Paris conjure up a world of...

Taking us on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe, from coral reefs to the North Pole, deserts to...

A biting science fiction satire of American racism, and one of the first works of Afrofuturism

It's New Years Day in 1933 in...

Moses thinks he's got it made. Originally a poor Caribbean immigrant, he is now the proud landlord of a ramshackle house in...

The Lonely Londoners, an unforgettable account of immigrant experience and one of the great twentieth-century London novels, now...

'I've just found a stranger in my house. In a bed on the second floor. He was dying when I got there. You're going to have to...

'She tried to laugh, but was sobbing at the same time. She attempted to stand up and fell over, but she didn't shatter like the...

This new selection of stories featuring Inspector Maigret - three of which are published in English for the first time - takes...

'She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely bookseller whose only passion in life was...

Sukey Bond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is sent to work as a servant at a farm on the remote Essex Marshes. There she falls in...

Pillar of society and stern upholder of Victorian values, god-fearing Norfolk merchant John Barnard presides over a large and...

Don Juan, that notorious libertine, has disappeared. Has he been dragged down to hell by demons, as rumoured - or has he escaped?...

'That summer we bought big straw hats. Maria's had cherries around the rim, Infanta's had forget-me-nots, and mine had poppies as...

Tender and bittersweet, these stories by Truman Capote, the author of Breakfast at Tiffany's, are a captivating tribute to the...

Clare Kendry has severed all ties to her past. Elegant, fair-skinned and ambitious, she is married to a white man who is unaware...

'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life'

The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic...

Jules Verne's most famous adventure, now in a beautiful clothbound edition

One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his...

On a foggy winter's evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habitually...

Two people who didn't know each other and who had come together by a miracle in the great city, and who now clung desperately to...

The Plague is Albert Camus's world-renowned fable of fear and courage

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly...

Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London...

It is 4am when the ambulance comes to take the man's wife away - although no-one has called it, and there is nothing wrong with...

A private detective is hired to find a missing person, but nothing is normal about this case. Why has the beautiful, alcoholic...