G. K. Chesterton's fictional amateur detective, the genial Father Brown, was greeted with huge enthusiasm when he first appeared...

Returning home from the University of St. Petersburg, Arkady Kirsanov discovers that, while he has changed, the world he left...

F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote numerous short stories alongside his novels, the best known of which is of course The Great Gatsby....

Featuring a giant timeline wallchart, this illustrated guide traces humankind's greatest achievements in mathematics, plotting a...

In an attempt to create a perfect new being, scientist Victor Frankenstein secretly assembles a collection of body parts and...

In an attempt to create a perfect new being, scientist Victor Frankenstein secretly assembles a collection of body parts and...

In an attempt to create a perfect new being, scientist Victor Frankenstein secretly assembles a collection of body parts and...

A classic tale of adventure, action, and scientific achievement.
With the end of the Civil War, the Baltimore Gun Club are on...

Who were the gangster women who risked everything to stay with the men of the underworld?

This gripping account chronicles the...

M... , Dickens...

The dead linger in our world before passing over, tormenting those who disturb their rest. From startling visions to dreadful...

Carr Allen, Dicey John

Read good sugar bad sugar and be the weight you want to be for the rest of your life.

Good Sugar Bad Sugar tackles the biggest...

From early humans carving notches in bones to the discovery of quantum mechanics, mathematics has certainly come a long...

In this highly accessible history, Robert Snedden looks at what has been described as the fundamental science - the one that...

What incredible innovations have changed the course of history?

From rudimentary metalwork to 3-D printing, human ingenuity...

Great Expectations (1861) is a favourite among many Dickens readers. In addition to its endearing hero, Pip - a blacksmith's boy,...

Great Expectations (1861) is a favourite among many Dickens readers. In addition to its endearing hero, Pip - a blacksmith's boy,...

The example by which many others have followed, the Brothers Grimm collected the stories of German folk lore in an act of...

This beautiful hardback treasury brings together the best-loved tales of Brothers Grimm, with deluxe silver embossing and gilded...

Originally entitled Children's and Household Tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm...

Originally entitled Children's and Household Tales, Grimm's Fairy
Tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm...

Originally entitled Childrens and Household Tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales were first published by the brothers Jacob and Wilhelm...

A shipwreck brings Lemuel Gulliver to Lilliput, where he finds himself in a kingdom of tiny people. This experience is later...

The Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt is perhaps best known for his works The Kiss and the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer...

This deluxe gilded hardback edition brings together the most celebrated fiction of H.P. Lovecraft.

Said to be inspired by his...

Lovecraft's otherworldly visions of cosmic horrors, alien beings and a world not quite our own remain immensely powerful and able...

'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in our philosophy.'

Arguably Shakespeare's greatest...

Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales includes many of his classic stories. He began writing his original fairy tales in 1835 but...

Along with famous stories including "The Ugly Duckling", "Thumbelina" and "The Emperor's New Suit", this collection includes some...

A powerful and courageous work of fiction, Hard Times looks at working conditions in a Victorian factory town in the industrial...

The backdrop to this campaigning novel is the grim industrial centre of Coketown, with its belching chimneys, purple-dyed river...