Near the island of Black Conch, a fisherman sings to himself while waiting for a catch. But David attracts a sea-dweller that he...

Jane Eyre is the inspiring heroine of one of the best-loved British novels of all time.

As an orphan, Jane's childhood is not...

‘Wealth and beggary, virtue and vice, repletion and the direst hunger, all treading on each other and crowding together’

Could...

'Rich or poor, we will keep together and be happy in one another'

Christmas won't be the same this year for Meg, Jo, Beth and...

'Facts alone are wanted in life'

The children at Mr Gradgrind's school are sternly ordered to stifle their imaginations and...

Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional beauty. As he gradually sinks deep into a...

'Two Surface-dwellers. Two! He's a Fattypuff and you're a Thinifer. There's no doubt about it!'

This is the tale of two...

'For God's sake, hold on!'

On a stormy night off the coast of Scotland, young David Balfour faces his most terrifying test...

'"Stand firm'" said Peter, "and wave like mad!"'

They were not railway children to begin with. When their Father mysteriously...

Written in the same period as Mrs Dalloway these seven short stories show the author's fascination with parties and with all the...

The Art of Love may have been written in the days of gladiators and emperors, but Ovid remains the smartest teacher on the...

Machiavelli’s highly influential treatise on political power

'It is far safer to be feared than loved...'

The Prince...

Sherlock Holmes stars in Doyle’s most famous detective story.

The Baskerville family curse tells of how a terrifying,...

'Who can think of a pirate without conjuring up the image of Long John Silver?' Daily Mail

When young Jim Hawkins discovers a...

Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved...

'In Persuasion, Jane Austen picks up the pen to tell us who we are and what we want' Independent

Eight years ago Anne Elliot...

'The perfect novel' Kate Atkinson, #1 bestselling author of Big Sky

Huck is a young, naive white boy fleeing from his drunken,...

Come Away! Come Away!

The Darling children are tucked up in bed when Peter Pan bursts in to their nursery. Peter and his...

"Ho! ho! I am the Toad, the motor-car snatcher, the prison-breaker, the Toad who always escapes!"

Tired of spring cleaning,...

"You saved your mistress's life, Beauty! yes, you saved her life"

Black Beauty is the prettiest young horse in the meadows,...

'If we were in a book it would be an enchanted castle - certain to be'

When Jerry, Jimmy and Kathleen are forced to spend...

‘Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom’

Sonnets are for romantics,...

Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor,...

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Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at...

Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It's an entire world, a colony full of life.
In other words, you...

Semyon is disturbed. He has woken up in the living room with blood on his shirt, an angry wife and no idea where he was the night...

He's the best cop they've got.
When a drug bust turns into a bloodbath it's up to Inspector Macbeth and his team to clean up the...

When Harriet Westaway receives an unexpected letter telling her she's inherited a substantial bequest from her Cornish...

A complex Shakespearean comedy of intertwined relationships, as nine closely linked characters search for love

After his...

‘What is it,’ asks Tom Wolfe, ‘that makes a man willing to sit on top of an enormous Roman Candle…and wait for someone to light...