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...

The concluding part of John le Carre's celebrated Karla Trilogy, Smiley's People sees the last confrontation between the...

Why was an English lawyer shot dead in Turkey by his firm's top client? How can a down-at-heel magician in Devon explain the vast...

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...

Tessa Quayle, a brilliant and beautiful young social activist, has been found brutally murdered by Lake Turkana in Nairobi. The...

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...

'If marriage was the slow life-long acquittal of a debt contracted in ignorance, then marriage was a crime against human...

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

'Even in the stillness of that dead-cold weather, I had heard no sound of little battering hands upon the window-glass...'

A...

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...

Maigret shrugged his shoulders, buried his hands in his pockets and went off without answering. He had just spent one of the most...

'Yes, bastard, you're the one I love'

A pair of lovers - a young female journalist and an older man who owns an isolated farm...

'I felt the powerful strength of my family overrunning me like a heavy rush of water'

For Andre, a young man growing up on a...

The story of a passionate young woman who escapes her stifling marriage through adultery and murder, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk is...