Buffy's bachelorhood is worrying until he meets Celeste, a young girl at the chemist's shop who appears to hold the prescription...

Summer 1970 - a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside...

This seductive and evocative epic tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. It reveals the cruelty and ugliness of life...

One of Maugham's rare experiments with form, the novel is a trio of stories that portrays a vivid spectrum of life in Edwardian...

A young woman is brutally murdered on a remote mountain road. A young construction worker, Yuichi, is on the run - but is he...

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A report of a rare and unusual gun - a type favoured by assassins - being smuggled into...

The definitive selection of Maugham's best short stories - gorgeously rejacketed in our new series style
"The modern writer who...

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Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker, abandons his wife and children for Paris...

One by one the boys begin to fall...
In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their...

No book in modern times has matched the uproar sparked by Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, which earned its author a death...