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...

This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked...

The five, irreverant, satirical and imaginative stories contained in Diaboliad caused an uproar upon the book's first publication...

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

When Nell Sely moves from sleepy Dorset to Hampstead she leaves behind a childhood of dull teas and oppressive rules for the...

One of Amos Oz's earliest and most famous novels, My Michael was a sensation upon its initial publication in 1968 and it has an...

This gossipy account of Louis XIV is a clear and fascinating historical biography from Nancy Mitford.

During his reign Louis...

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

Gladys and Annie Barnes are impoverished sisters who have seen better times. They live in a modest cottage in the backstreets of...

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

Professor Aronnax embarks on...

Battle is joined! Relish the underhand schemes and plots that unfold as Lucia vyes with Miss Mapp for social dominion over the...

Read Pulitzer Prize-winning, Sunday Times bestselling author Anne Tyler's funny and uplifting exploration of what it is to be an...

From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like...

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...

Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year

Our lives depend on shipping but it is a world which is largely hidden...

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

When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina...

First published on the anniversary of Kurt Vonnegut's death, Armageddon in Retrospect is a collection of twelve new writings - a...

Four very different women have made their way from Africa to Brussels. They have come to claim for themselves the riches they...

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'...

Beautiful, twisted and brilliant - discover Yoko Ogawa.

A lonely teenage girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she...

There's something wrong next door. At least, that's what neighbors Howie Jeffries and Emily Phane both think. Since his daughter...