"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,...

'Ahoy! Ahoy! Swallows! Ahoy!'

Have you ever sailed in a boat or built a camp? Have you caught trout and cooked it yourself?...

In the doorway of an elegant New York apartment, blood seeps over silk negligee, over polished wood floors and plush carpet: a...

Marie's job as a museum guard at the National Gallery in London offers her the life she always wanted, one of invisibility and...

When Saladin recaptured Jerusalem from the Crusaders in 1187, returning the Holy City to Islamic rule, he sent shockwaves...

Meili, a young peasant woman born in the remote heart of China, is married to Kongzi, a village school teacher, and a distant...

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a...

Spiralling into an alcohol-fuelled depression after killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander has made up his...

The fifth novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Free Love, The Past and Late in the Day, Clever Girl is a tale of an...

After just a year of close, loving marriage, Ruth has been widowed. Her beloved husband, Ben, has been killed in a tragic...

Cyprus, spring 1972. Tensions are rising between the Greek South and the Turkish North. Within two years, the country will become...

From the author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time comes a novel about families and secrets

Two families....

You are about to discover the secrets of The Quick –

But first, reader, you must travel to Victorian England, and there, in...

Wars come and go across the headlines and television screens, but for those who survive them, scarred and scattered, they never...

What does it take to be a family?

Julia has fallen deeply, unexpectedly in love. James is her second chance, and everything...

What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough?

Adam and Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts...

A deeply moving collection of stories from the bestselling author of Star of the Sea

Ranging from urgently contemporary London...

A very, very funny novel about country sports, murder, intrigue - and talking pheasants.

It begins for Basil 'Banger'...

Detective Sigurdur Oli is in trouble.

After a school reunion exposes the chasm between his life and those of his much more...

Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big events: love...

The Alms for Oblivion sequence - an extraordinary series of murders, suicides, affairs, fighting, fires and at least one...

Simon Raven's sequence of colourful and funny novels about the English upper-class misbehaving continues against a backdrop of...

Enter Alms for Oblivion, Simon Raven's dazzling cycle of ten novels, all telling separate stories but at the same time linked...

28 June 1389, the Field of the Blackbirds. A Christian army made up of Serbs, Bosnians, Albanians and Romanians confront an...

It's the 1970s and cracks are starting to appear in the alliance between China and its Communist cohort Albania. When an Albanian...

Tess is an innocent young girl until the day she goes to visit her rich 'relatives', the D'Urbervilles. Her encounter with her...

Malignant forces and supernatural visitors haunt this selection of superbly spooky tales selected and introduced by Ruth...

Sir Humphrey du Val of the Table of Less Valued Knights - Camelot's least prestigious table, with one leg shorter than the others...

From one of Spain's greatest writers, a witty, moving novel about art, life, death and James Joyce.

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