Through a series of mishaps, Henry Warren, a recently divorced City financier, ends up in hospital in a Northern town ruined by...

When Johnny Pascoe attempts to rescue a sick girl from the Tasmanian outback his plane crashes leaving him dangerously injured....

During the Second World War, Peter Marshall's crew become one of the most successful bombing teams in their Oxfordshire airbase....

Young pilot Donald Ross has little in common with the Oxford don who has employed him on an expedition to the Arctic - and still...

Read this classic uplifting, moving and heartwarming story about life in the face of the cold war.

Theodore Honey is a shy,...

Jerry Chambers, a fresh-faced young pilot, mistakenly sinks a British submarine. He is reprimanded and sent to a remote posting...

It is the rainy season. Drunk and delirious, an old man lies dying in the Queensland bush. In his opium-hazed last hours, a...

A young English woman leaves her ageing parents to visit friends living in the Australian outback. She falls in love, both with...

John Turner, a young man with a chequered past, has been told he has just one year to live. He decides to use his time in search...

Discover a classic adventure from the author of A Town Like Alice and On the Beach.

Keith Stewart is an ordinary man. However,...

Nevil Shute wrote this prophetic novel just before the start of the Second World War. In it he describes the devastation that...

Chester Royde, an American millionaire, travels to Scotland with his new bride Carrie and sister Myrtle, to find out more about...

In settings that range from small town Illinois to the Upper East Side of Manhattan, these stories are distinguished by Maxwell's...

An adventure classic of deep-sea volcanoes, giant squid and the renegade scientist Captain Nemo.

Professor Aronnax embarks on...

Colin. May. Frank. Berenice. The Prime children grew up in a bleak country farm house called The Beacon. Colin and Berenice...

Read the sweeping and enchanting new novel from the author of The Giant's House

Bertha is an enigma to everyone in Salford,...

No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.

Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He...

A ‘magical, haunting’ (Philippa Gregory) novel of a tragic love affair in a threatened world

In 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman,...

From the slums of Cape Town to the palaces of Algiers, through Pygmy villages where pineapples grow wild, to the Gulf of Guinea...

Rediscover Gladys Mitchell – one of the 'Big Three' female crime fiction writers alongside Agatha Christie and Dorothy L....

As a child Ludo is plucked out of the shantytown where he was born and transported to a world of languid, cosseted luxury. Now...

In August 1914 the two greatest navies in the world confronted each other across the North Sea. At first there were skirmishes,...

When the Khurana boys and their friend Mansoor set out for one of Delhi's markets, disaster strikes without warning. A 'small'...

An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits,...

First publication of a new collection of the Booker Prize-winner's stories including those from her most recent hardback 'Taking...

The prequel to the bestselling Suite Francaise

Paris 1918, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man.

The...

Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe has just waved off to war the two young men she has loved for the best part of her life when the...

Roddy Doyle's first ever collection of stories.

For the past few years Roddy Doyle has been writing stories for Metro Eireann,...

A moving tale of isolation, the painful loss of innocence and a eulogy for the traditional ways of life gone forever.

In 1948,...

Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award and Martin Amis's celebrated first novel.

Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and...