John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play...

'To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom' - Andre Gide

Michel had...

The most famous person in the world is going undercover…
Global phenomenon Winter Young is the pop star of a generation. With...

It's 1981, a year of riots and royal weddings. The Dukes of Hazzard is on TV. Curly Wurlys are in the shops. And trying to find a...

Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, regarded by many to be first novel in English, is also the original tale of a castaway struggling...

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval...

'Every man had not only a weak spot but also a criminal one'

At his wife's insistence, upstanding citizen and artillery...

In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the...

The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist ... he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest, a man...

Stephanie Plum's fast becoming the most unpopular woman in New Jersey. Even her own mother can't love her for taking on the job...

An attractive student. An older professor.
Think you know the story? Think again.
She has everything at stake; he has...

Reissued for the Originals series of powerful teen fiction.

Nobody wants Tulip in their gang.

She skives off school,...

'He lay crumpled on his back. Very lonely, very dead. The safe door was wide open. A metal drawer was pulled out. It was empty...

Straight-A student Megan Carver was an unlikely runaway. But six months on, she's never been found.

Missing persons...

One life. One choice. One sacrifice.

To save those closest to her, Simi sacrificed everything - her freedom, her life as mami...

With its irrepressible heroine and playful literary games, Northanger Abbey is the most youthful and optimistic of Jane Austen's...

One hot summer, first love and so many buried secrets . . .

Senara has never been in love before. She's not done anything...

'High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables where rose wine was being...

'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither...

What was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? . . . Little John had cold eyes! . . . Four or five times in his...

This is the story of an old English manor house by the sea, with crumbling chimneys, draping ivy and a library full of dusty...

If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian...

London, 1842. There has been a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London's newest and grandest gentleman's club. A...

He went out, lit his pipe and walked slowly to the harbour. He could hear scurrying footsteps behind him. The sea was becoming...

Until I met John Smith, Number Four, I'd been on the run alone, hiding and fighting to stay alive.

Together, we were much more...

The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton in...

Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

'The palm trees around the railway station were motionless, fixed in a Saharan sun . . . It really felt as if they were stepping...

Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who, thanks to the privileges of an education in Britain, has now returned to Nigeria for...