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...

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...

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

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...

Agee James, Evans...

In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in...

The residents of Churchwood have never needed their bookshop, or its community, more. But when the bookshop comes under threat at...

A gruesome curse. A city in upheaval. A monster with unquenchable appetites.
Marlinchen and her sisters are the last true...

An enormous escaped rhinoceros from London Zoo has eaten James's parents. And it gets worse! James is packed off to live with his...

A young woman, Dr Graciela Saddiq, arrives to work at a zoo in a city soon to be at war.

Of all the animals, she is...

Shortlisted for both the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, and published here as a Penguin Essential for the...

Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York.

In a Manhattan bar, a...

Whether he's initiating a coup d'etat against new regulations with the residents, or forging a bond with the 98-year old who once...

The Mona Lisa has hung in the Louvre for over two-hundred years. She has watched alone in silence as millions of people have...

They killed Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.

John Smith is not your average...

It's 1936, war is brewing, tempers are running high, and by his thirteenth birthday, Sheldon Horowitz has been orphaned - twice....

I'm Johanna Morrigan. It's 1995. I'm nineteen and I live in the epicentre of Britpop. Parklife!

My unrequited love, John Kite,...

An inspiring memoir of finding strength and resilience from the former England Lioness.

From the football cages of East London...

Quirky, charming and suffused the footloose spirit of the sixties, this is the irresistible story of an English woman who decides...

The moving and heartwarming story of one woman trying to make it on her own, from the bestselling author of The Open Door

Kate...

The second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Two is...

The culminating drama of the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Three plays out the final breakdown of political and family...

The first of Shakespeare's four plays about the Wars of the Roses, dramatizing the rivalry between power-hungry noble houses,...

The old king Henry IV, sick and weary, must send out his forces - including the unruly Falstaff - to meet another rebellion that...