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,...

In their trusty fishing boat Genevieve, armed with a flame thrower and limited ammunition, a small group of officers and men take...

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...

Read this beautiful, romantic feminist classic from the author of Jane Eyre.

When Lucy Snowe leaves England to look for a new...

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...

Uprooted from war-torn London, Alda Lucie-Brown and her three daughters start a new life at Pine Cottage in rural Sussex....

Brother and sister, Constance and Kenneth Fielding live in calm respectability, just out of reach of London and the Blitz. But...

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...

'Stella Gibbons is the Jane Austen of the twentieth century' The Times

Set in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of...

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...

Arthur Conan Doyle leaves Baker Street far behind in this ripping yarn about a undiscovered land where dinosaurs and ape-men...

Extra-special futuristic 3D edition! Each book comes with 3D glasses!

From the grandpere of science fiction - a perilous and...

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...

On the night of 10 February 1567 an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband...