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...

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...

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...

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...

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

The groundbreaking Harlem Renaissance novel about prejudice within the black community

Emma Lou Morgan's skin is black - 'too...

Tevye is the compassionate, lovable, Bible-quoting dairyman from Anatevka, and Tevye the Dairyman is a heartwarming and poignant...

As she walks out of her marriage, a woman remembers the day her husband rescued a boy from drowning.

A blind man on his...

Nick and Laura are the hosts: pretending their marriage isn't on the rocks.

Madison and Bastian are the guests: neither is...

1960. The border between East and West Germany has closed.

For Elisabeth - a young painter - the GDR is her generation's...

One of the greatest French novelists, Balzac was also an accomplished writer of shorter fiction. This volume includes twelve of...

Although best remembered today for his novels, Thomas Hardy thought of himself as a poet forced by circumstance to write fiction...

When President Habyarimana’s jet was shot down in April 1994, Rwanda erupted into a hundred-day orgy of killing – which left up...

Can revelations from the past help them start a new life?

Three women came to the remote Cornish cottage that summer: Jenna,...

The year is 1976 and Jack Sheffield never wants to leave his job.

Jack has been the deputy head teacher at Newbridge Primary...

Henry Earlforward, a shabby Clerkenwell bookseller, has retired from life to devote himself (and his wife Violet) to a consuming...