'Absolutely, definitively alone', a young Jewish student in Romania tries to make sense of a world that has decided he doesn't...

They say the Hollow Sea is cursed. A wild expanse separating the remote islands of St Hia, not even the locals brave its...

One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona,...

Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking...

A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.

'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that...

The classic American novel, rejacketed with a new foreword by Tom Perotta and introduction by Hawthorne scholar Robert Milder...

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which...

Freud... , Breuer...

The tormenting of the body by the troubled mind, hysteria is among the most pervasive of human disorders - yet at the same time...

Dorothy Never - fat - lives alone in New York, eats and works the night shift as a proofreader. Justine Shade - thin - is a...

In Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty and Kindness Simon Baron-Cohen takes fascinating and challenging new...

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family...

Inside lies a secret that won't stay hidden…
The Great War is ending, but it has taken Ivy's son. Ivy is consumed by discovering...

The Devil's Workshop is the third historical thriller in Alex Grecian's acclaimed Scotland Yard Murder Squad series.

April,...

As a young man, Proust wrote both poetry and prose. Even after he embarked on his masterful In Search of Lost Time at the age of...

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets...

The routine traffic stop that ends in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels of the Pentagon. The...

The teachings of Epicurus-about life and death, religion and science, physical sensation, happiness, morality, and...

When Celeste loses her best friend Hannah, she'll do anything to keep her spirit alive.

So when she uncovers her friend's old...

'You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words...

'Florentin pulled one of those faces which had once amused his classmates so much and disarmed the teachers . . .

Maigret...

'They won't know you, the you that's hidden somewhere in the castle of your skin'

Nine-year-old G. leads a life of quiet...

'He had realized that it was her eyes as much as her vivacity that made her look so young. They were of a blue that was paler...

The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was...

Abducted, beaten, hidden in an attic, a young woman stages an audacious escape. But is her story everything she claims it to...

The Last Four Things is the second in Paul Hoffman's remarkable series.

Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell
These are the Last...

'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it...

Jane Austen's subtle and witty novel of secrets and suppression, lies and seduction, brilliantly portrays a world where rigid...

Daiyu was named after a ghost…
Little Daiyu is twelve when her parents disappear. So she runs, disguising herself as a boy, to...

Maigret wouldn't have admitted that what intrigued him most was the victim's face. All he had seen of it so far was one profile....

Susan Sontag's third essay collection brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980. In these provocative...