After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus...

M... , Eggers...

The bestselling author of Team of Teams dismantles the Great Man theory of leadership, by profiling leaders whose real stories...

'I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.'

Meg, Jo, Amy and Beth - four "little women" enduring...

Koko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her...

Here's the thing about being Inside. Ain't no one believes that they are.

Ele has never been Outside, but she knows it exists...

In 1958, Sylvia Blackwell, fresh from one of the new post-war Library Schools, takes up a job as children's librarian in a run...

Charlie Calloway has a life most people would kill for - a tight-knit family, a loyal set of friends, and top grades at a...

K... , Barth...

Contagion may alarm doctors but marketers thrive on it. Some concepts are so compelling you have to share them. But what makes an...

'I always wanted to be friends with both my sisters. Perhaps that was the source, really, of all the troubles of my...

When Lana goes missing for four desperate days and returns refusing to speak of what happened, Jen fears the very worst. She...

Captain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never...

Aldo Cassidy is a cautious man. He has a pleasant family, drives a safe, expensive car and wears luxurious clothes. But his...

An illegal Muslim immigrant arrives in Hamburg with a traumatic past and the key to a fortune held in a private bank. He says his...

As an interpreter of African languages, Bruno Salvador is much in demand. He makes it a principle to remain neutral - no matter...

A classic slice of Southern Gothic, shot through with psychological suspense - now the basis for Sofia Coppola's highly...

With an introduction from Haifaa al-Mansour, director of Mary Shelley.

There is something in my soul, which I do not...

Spall... , Xander...

How are you spending your most valuable hours? The first few choices you make each morning can unlock greater productivity,...

Drawing on George Eliot's own childhood experiences to craft an unforgettable story of first love, sibling rivalry and regret,...

The original 'sensation novel', The Woman in White opens with Walter Hartright's eerie encounter with a strange, solitary woman...

'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'

Vividly interweaving epic historical drama with personal tragedy,...

With its depiction of the wronged 'pure woman' Tess and its powerful criticism of Victorian hypocrisy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles...

Oscar Wilde's alluring novel of decadence and sin was a succes de scandale on publication. It follows Dorian Gray who, enthralled...

Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend - and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an...

'Here, even if I had a thousand dollar in my pocket, I know of no sight which could arouse in me the feeling of ecstasy'
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A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust.

It was all...

'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'

Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories,...

A moving nineteenth-century account - lost for many decades - of a Chinese official's all-consuming love for his wife.

'Our...

'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!', 'Your servant, sir!' and 'Hail...

All that was still unclear, for sure. Ernest Malik had been right when he had looked at Maigret with a smile that was a mixture...

Poor Cecile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult...