The stories in Liars in Love are concerned with troubled relations and the elusive nature of truth. Whether it be in the...

First published in 1962, a year after Revolutionary Road, this sublime collection of stories seems even more powerful today. Out...

Even as little girls, Sarah and Emily are very different from each other. Emily looks up to her wiser and more stable older...

John Wilder is in his mid-thirties, a successful salesman with a place in the country, an adoring wife and a ten-year-old son.But...

Evan Shepard is a young man with a chequered past when he first meets the Drakes, after his car breaks down outside their house....

In this witty and poignant story the railway is pushing its way relentlessly towards the town from Manchester, bringing fears of...

At the heart of the Sultan's vast empire stands the mysterious Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are...

Twenty years after the end of the Second World War, an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his country's dead....

'Wickedly good' John Updike

In a small Southern town, shy teenager Evie Decker becomes obsessed with local rock singer Bertram...

France. A skint, clapped-out British philosopher meets an incompetent, freshly released, one-armed, armed robber. The Thought...

There is an old saying that when lovers fall out, a plane goes down. This is the story of one such plane.
Why did a Hercules...

An eminent, ageing Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled Strong Opinions. For him, troubled by...

Returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman - incontinent and impotent - comes back to New York, the...

Paul Rainey, an ad salesman, perceives dimly through a fog of psychoactive substances his dissatisfaction with his life-...

The bestselling novel from the author of The Snakes, The Outcast is a powerful portrait of unexpected love and treacherous...

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...

Being immortal isn't all it's cracked up to be. Life's hard for a Greek god in the 21st century: nobody believes in you any more,...

It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in...

Alice is one of the most beloved characters of English writing. A bright and inquisitive child, one boring summer afternoon she...

‘The image of little Oliver Twist victimised by poverty, almost seduced by the specious excitement of crime, and then offered the...

Born at the stroke of midnight at the exact moment of India's independence, Saleem Sinai is a special child. However, this...

'Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. K. Rowling

Catherine Morland is a young girl with a very...

Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a home at Mansfield Park so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'

Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years...

Discover the legendary story of a marine adventurer shipwrecked on a desert island.

Robinson Crusoe runs away from home to...

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

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'Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry' Graham Greene

Isabel...

How thin is the line between good and evil?

Discover the classic tale of gothic horror

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...