'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...

Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled...

The title story tells of a typical Christmas at the farm before the coming of Flora Poste. It is a parody of the worst sort of...

Trollope's magnificent and prescient satire about a dishonest financier who buys his way into a corrupt society, and throws it...

The first book in Anthony Trollope's Barchester Chronicles is a moving, insightful exploration of moral dilemmas fought in public...

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...

The great Icelandic novel by the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Halldor Laxness

'There are good books and there are great books...

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...

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,...

As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs...

Even in an age of soaring skyscrapers and cavernous sports stadiums, the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence still...

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....

'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional'

A compelling mediation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the...

These are beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and...

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...

A gripping chronicle of the personal and political rivalries from the birth of Queen Victoria to the unification of Germany...

The Story of a Childhood and The Story of a Return

The intelligent and outspoken child of radical Marxists, and the...

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