Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then...

The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important work of classic Korean fiction. Like its English counterpart,...

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...

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...

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

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

Tabucchi... , Звево...

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...

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

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...

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...

Two spies who have lost everything. Or have they?
The year is 1952. It's been over a decade since Josie and Arlette were...

'Musa Dagh stood beyond the world. No storm would reach it, even if one should break'
It is 1915 and Gabriel has returned to his...

Londinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern girl living in an ancient world. She's a back-alley firecracker, a scruffy Nubian babe...

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics,...

Edith Wharton's novels of manners seem to grow in stature as time passes. Here she draws a beautiful social climber, Undine...

Herbert George Wells was perhaps best known as the author of such classic works of science fiction as The Time Machine and War of...

Spring, 1953. The sun is shining on Little Green Street, the bunting is being brought out, and Britain is getting ready to crown...

Move fast. Stay dark.

These are the instructions sent to new operative Emma Makepeace.

She's been assigned to track down a...

The play is a parable inspired by the Chinese play Chalk Circle. Written at the close of World War II, the story is set in the...

War is building. Blood is spilling.
And the gods are not pleased.
Casia has survived her brother's attempts to crush her but...