'They sing in my head even now... What a wonderful storyteller/poet he was' Michael Morpurgo, Guardian

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How thin is the line between good and evil?

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Dr Jekyll has been experimenting...

‘I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way’

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Discover the classic tale behind the hit film and one of the most beloved, comforting, charming stories of all time.

Life in...

'The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself'

'Jarndyce and Jardyce' is an infamous lawsuit...

Your favourite fantastic Grimm fairy tales and bedtime stories in the only complete edition of this classic collection.

Wolves...

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

When young Jim Hawkins discovers a...

'One of the greatest allegories in all literature' D.H. Lawrence

Hester Prynne is a beautiful young woman. She is also an...

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...

Discover the classic story behind the major new film

'Jane Austen's Emma is her masterpiece, mixing the sparkle of her early...

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

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

Roddy Doyle's first ever collection of stories.

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

Dazzlingly inventive and utterly original, All Shall Be Well... is a surprise and a delight.

Meet Burt Hecker, aka Eckbert...

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 Booker Prize

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Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at...

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

Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and...

A single mother's scandalous past returns to complicate the present in this deftly-plotted comedy by the beloved Mary...

Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest...

Heavy rain falls on Lafferton. As the rain water slowly drains away, a shallow grave - and a skeleton - are revealed.

It...

A gunman is terrorising young women.

What links these seemingly random murders? Is the marksman with a rifle the same person...

Two local prostitutes are found brutally strangled.

Serrailler is called back urgently from his sabbatical but by the time he...

A strikingly powerful novel exploring the motivations of a suicide bomber in Israel, told through the eyes of her husband.

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Kate Flynn has always been a clever girl, brought up to believe in herself as something special. Now Kate is forty-three and has...

Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son...

A tangled tale of falling in love - with three very different men.

Flora Trevelyan is a ten-year-old misfit, despised by her...

When, on the night of their wedding, Ned asks his new wife Rose to promise that she will never leave him, Rose is quick to give...

The first novel by Joseph O'Connor, bestselling author of Star of the Sea and Shadowplay.

Eddie Virago, proud owner of the...

Philip Roth's debut novella and Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction

Goodbye, Columbus is the story of Neil Klugman...

The world's finest living short story writer turns to her family for inspiration; and what follows is a fictionalised,...