Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by...

'People ought to think for themselves ... the problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to.'

Times are...

'Whoever said you can't fool an honest man wasn't one.'

The Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork is facing a crisis and needs a shake-up...

'Always push your luck because no one else would push it for you.'
Imprisoned in Ankh-Morpork, con artist Moist von Lipwig is...

'It was a puzzle with no solution. But he did not lose heart.'

In a rocky cove in the bay of Hakata, the bodies of a young and...

I believe every word you say. That was always my mistake.

Bright, promising Emma is entangled in a toxic romance with her old...

'This didn't feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.'
Being sixteen is always difficult, but it's...

'Inside every living person is a dead person waiting to get out.'

Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality for the...

Paul Shanahan - part-time surveyor, erstwhile IRA arms dealer and sometime suspected CIA agent - is a full-time scoundrel. But...

'It wasn't by eliminating the impossible that you got at the truth, however improbable; it was by the much harder process of...

Patterson... , Paetro...

Will she live to see her twenty-first birthday?

When a distraught mother pleads with reporter Cindy Thomas to investigate the...

'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the...

Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna

By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at least some of it)

· A...

'Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.'

The city of...

'Holy Wood is a different sort of place . . . Here, the most important thing is to be important.'

A new phenomenon is taking...

For years, Toby has opened his door to the people who needed his help.
For years, Leah has been fascinated by the mysterious...

Patterson... , Parton...

Find a future. Lose a past.

She's a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her.

She's also on the...

Beth has never stuck at anything.

She's quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember and she still sleeps in her...

Margriet grew up as a lonely child in the old town of Hull. Her adored father often travelled by sea to the Netherlands, leaving...

Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a...

A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhys's beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering...

He doesn't just want your identity. He wants your life...

No one sees him coming.
A stock-market trader is pushed from a...

'The world lives between those who say it cannot be done and those who say that it can . . . it's just a matter of thinking...

The cult classic from one of France's most stylish writers

'Don't give a damn,' says Zazie, 'what I wanted was to go in the...

'Every day in the UK lives are suddenly, brutally, wickedly taken away. Victims are shot or stabbed. Less often they are...

'That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They're all guys!'

In the small yet aggressive country of...

Behind the spectacle there are always secrets.

Unruly crowds descend on Crillick's Variety Theatre. A black, British actress,...

She thinks she knows the truth. But what if she's wrong?

Laila and her husband arrive for a week's holiday in Greece in...

Everybody thinks they know what sheep are like: they're stupid, noisy, cowardly ('lambs to the slaughter'), and they're...

When Bel Kumar leaves for work in the morning, the last thing she expects is wake up in hospital later that day - with her ex...