A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred...

A beautiful story of love and survival for fans of Ruth Hogan and Sally Page.
A lost child. A Long-kept secret. The house that...

Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange...

The American Deep South, in the 1970s. Velma Henry, once a formidable political activist, has grown weary and disillusioned with...

Lindy Morris is stuck. She lives in rural Ireland, banished to a lonely bungalow by her Granda Morris, with only her Auntie Bell...

Composed at the end of the fourteenth century by an unknown author, The Saga of Grettir the Strong is one of the last great...

In these three exotic, steamy dramas Tennessee Williams portrays loss, faded lives and passionate love affairs.

The Rose...

A car wreck on the slopes of Mount Morgan puts insurance tycoon Lyman Felt in the hospital. While Lyman recovers, two women meet...

"Occasionally, you and the team come within read of perfection, up there in the rarefied air of the skies. You never know when...

'Peter, Peter, Pumpkin eater
Had a wife and couldn't keep her...'

In this extraordinary, semi-autobiographical novel,...

Victor, a New York cop nearing retirement, moves among furniture in the disused attic of a house marked for demolition. Cabinets,...

First published in July 1850, shortly after Wordsworth's death, The Prelude was the culmination of over fifty years of creative...

Edited by Hollis Robbins and Henry Louis Gates, Jr; this collection comprises work from forty-nine writers arranged into sections...

This surreal fable, set in America's Old West, features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at...

From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer, John le Carre has lived a unique...

Verga... , Tabucchi...

Jhumpa Lahiri's landmark collection brings together forty writers that reflect over a hundred years of Italy's vibrant and...

An anthology of Great War short stories by British writers, both famous and lesser-known authors, men and women, during the war...

More than any other writer Gilbert White (1720-93) has shaped the relationship between man and nature. A hundred years before...

William Shakespeare's comic encore for one of his best-loved characters - the rascally Falstaff from Henry IV and Henry V - The...

Small-time hustler Arthur Abdel Simpson ekes out a living in Athens by robbing gullible tourists. But when an attempted theft...

Elizabeth Gaskell's biography of her close friend Charlotte Bronte was published in 1857 to immediate popular acclaim, and...

One Room. Two Liars. No Way Out

Susanna Fenton has a secret. Fourteen years ago she left her identity behind, reinventing...

'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now...

It started with a kiss. It ends with a chance to rewrite the rules.

For one last time, join Elle, Noah, Lee and all your...

Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.

The story of...

Henry Fielding's picaresque tale of a young man's search for his place in the world, The History of Tom Jones is edited with...

Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, leaves the easy life of the Happy Valley, accompanied by his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah,...

Mr Polly is an ordinary middle-aged man who is tired of his wife's nagging and his dreary job as the owner of a regional...

Sylvie hasn't been back to her crumbling French family home in years. Not since the tragic death of her eldest daughter...

Detectives Coffin Ed and Grave Digger Jones have lost two criminals. Pinky ran off - but it shouldn't be hard to track down a...