You knew Hollywood would be difficult.

So when you land a job in television, you're ready for anything: pulling all-nighters,...

Nostromo, published in 1904, is one of Conrad's finest works. Nostromo - though one hundred years old - says as much about...

'Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come round again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and...

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes...

Yip Tolroy and his fiery Mama run the general store in Heron's Creek, Georgia. An uneventful life, until gold is discovered...

What would you do if your husband became another person overnight?

When Molly married Alex Frazer, she knew it was for...

On the night before Christmas, Detective Alex Cross is at home celebrating with his family. But when Cross's phone rings, he...

Max Havelaar - a Dutch civil servant in Java - burns with an insatiable desire to end the ill treatment and oppression inflicted...

Certain details of the case were etched more sharply than others in Maigret's memory. Even years later he could recall the...

'Maigret had questioned thousands, tens of thousands of people in the course of his career, some occupying important positions,...

Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of ten of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park. But...

Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series.

'That shoeless foot...

'You're a good soul, inspector, and when you're up against the second-rate criminals you get here in Paris, you're a crack...

'What else did they have to do with their days? They ambled around casually. From time to time, they paused, not because they...

'Maigret looked at him in some confusion, wondering if he waas dealing with a skilful actor or, on the contrary, with a sickly...

Standing here at the window in the middle of the morning, vaguely observing the comings and goings in the street, he had a...

For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has...

'He opened the door for her and watched her walk away down the huge corridor, then hesitate at the top of the stairs. Heads...

'Maigret had never been comfortable in certain circles, among the wealthy bourgeoisie where he felt clumsy and awkward ... Built...

When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to...

'He had seldom been so perplexed by human beings. Would a psychiatrist, a teacher or a novelist...have been better placed to...

Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. Maigret is...

'Once alone in his office, he went over and opened the window as if being in charge of this case made him gasp for a breath of...

'Leaning on the banisters, Madame Maigret watched her husband going heavily downstairs . . . what the newspapers didn't know was...

'Why all of a sudden did this shock him? He was annoyed with himself for being shocked. He felt as if he had been sucked into the...

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial...

A man wakes in a cell.
He doesn't know who he is or how long he has been here.
He doesn't even know his name.
All he knows is...

First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of...

In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years...

A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's...