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...

Based on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, convicted of delivering information about the atomic bomb to the...

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...

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the...

Cheltenham Races, New Year's Eve.
Gerard Logan witnesses the death of his close friend, jockey Martin Stukely, after a fall from...

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...

Arun and his two classmates, Aseem and Virendra, are the success stories of their generation. As graduates of the prestigious...

These letters cover the activities of Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac in the years that gave birth to the Beat...

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

Arthur Miller's penultimate play, Resurrection Blues, is a darkly comic satirical allegory that poses the question: What would...

Twins Anna and Adam live in an abandoned commune in a volatile landscape where they prepare for the world-ending event they...

The final thrilling part of the New York Times bestselling trilogy, Reached is the sequel to Matched and Crossed by Ally Condie....

Tom Chamberlain was destined to be a soldier from the moment he discovered a faded picture of his father patrolling the streets...

"Look after the dead," said the priests, "and the dead would look after you."
Young Prince Teppic is sent far away from his...

It is only James Joyce's towering genius as a novelist that has led to the comparative neglect of his poetry and sole surviving...