Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests...

Dr Jekyll has been experimenting with his identity. He has developed a drug which separates the two sides of his nature and...

Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, generally known as Frankenstein, is a novel written by the British author Mary Shelley....

1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of II Duce's...

The 900-day siege of Leningrad (1941-44) was one of the turning points of the Second World War. It slowed down the German advance...

This book includes twenty-one stories and a novella that will disturb and delight, from the author of Fight Club. The absurdity...

Discover Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked strangers, ingenious...

The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley...

A tall, yellow-haired young European traveller calling himself 'Mogor dell'Amore', the Mughal of Love, arrives at the court of...

London, the week before Christmas, 2007. Seven wintry days to track the lives of seven characters: a hedge fund manager trying to...

From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children, which was awarded the Best of the Booker Prize in 1993, comes an...

From Deborah Moggach, bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, comes another hilarious and romantic comedy, this...

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

'The mind is a time machine that travels backwards in memory and forwards in prophecy, but he has done with prophecy now...'...

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...

Six friends are determined to escape for a debauched weekend in the country

Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and...

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...

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Before the Golden Age of magazines drew to a close half a century ago, a young PR man at...

Drawing from two political and several literary homelands, this collection presents a remarkable series of trenchant essays,...

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

In this dark comedy of errors, Iris Murdoch portrays the mischief wrought by Julius, a cynical intellectual who decides to...

Jake, clever and lazy, makes a living out of writing translations and sponging off his friends. When he is kicked out of his...

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While Mortals Sleep is a Smart, clear-eyed collection of stories from one of the most...

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

Eliot Rosewater is tortured by a fabulous inheritance he feels he does not deserve, so he devotes himself to drink, and to a life...

Look at the Birdie evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town...

Charles Smithson, a respectable engaged man, meets Sarah Woodruff as she stands on the Cobb at Lyme Regis, staring out to sea....

Drawing on the author's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor, this title takes place in Kiev, 1918,...

Solzhenitsyn's celebrated novel describes the lives of people in the Soviet Union under Stalin who were condemned on health...