America is on the brink of civil war. Only Thomas Cale can stop it...
Thomas Cale - the world's most dangerous yet reluctant...

The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby is a children's novel by the Reverend Charles Kingsley. Written in 1862-1863 as a...

'There's a trick to time. You can make it expand or you can make it contract. Make it shorter or make it longer…'
Some moments...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...