'People say that on the first night Francis Sancher spent in Riviere au Sel the wind in its temper screamed down from the...

Part of Penguin's beautiful hardback Clothbound Classics series, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith, these...

From the author of North and South and Mary Barton, Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford is a standalone publication of Elizabeth...

A gripping tale of violent jealousy, sexual passion and treachery, Honore de Balzac's Cousin Bette is translated from the French...

The seventh heart-warming, uplifting instalment in the much-loved Railway Girls series is available to pre-order...

A con-man is swindling the poor folk of Harlem out of their life savings - and now all hell's broken loose.
The 'Reverend' Deke...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

Raises one of the deepest and most puzzling questions we can put to ourselves ' What is Love?'

Drawing on writers and thinkers...

This unique anthology offers a more comprehensive look at the poems of Christopher Marlowe, England's first great poet and...

The unmissable new work from Ali Smith, following the dazzling Man Booker-shortlisted Seasonal quartet

One day in post-Brexit,...

You can run away from your life.
But you can't run away from murder.
When her family tragedy is splashed across the newspapers,...

Colditz Castle: a forbidding Gothic tower on a hill in Nazi Germany. You may have heard about the prisoners and their daring and...

A classic of postwar literature, a small masterpiece of humour, humanity and heroism from one of the best Czech writers

For...

Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are diving for treasure . . .

Specifically, the legendary hoard of Pirate Queen Ching Shih, lost in...

Freud's epoch-making insights revolutionized our perception of who we are, forming the foundation for psychoanalysis. In...

An opium addict is lost in the jungle; young men wage war against an empire of mutants; a handsome young pirate faces his...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of...

One year ago, Alex Towne's body was found.
One month ago, his mother saw him on the street.
One week ago, David Raker agreed to...

In the black of night, a woman lands on the fields of Occupied France. Charlotte Grey is on a mission for the British government...

Gratton... , Ireland...

An assassin, a soldier, a prince . . . and a deadly game of power, where no one knows the rules. Prepare to enter the world of...

1431 is a dangerous time for a woman to be defiant.

England has been fighting France for 100 years. At home, power-hungry men...

This bitterly funny Cold War satire on the end of the world expresses our deepest fears of Armageddon, and has become a...

In Candide, Voltaire threw down an audacious challenge to the philosophical views of the Enlightenment to create one of the most...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

An apparent suicide. A deepening mystery. A letter from a dead man...


Secret agent George Smiley is in trouble. A Foreign...

As the nation's oldest serving detectives, we know more about London than almost anyone. After all, we've been walking its...

Lynda drives to a secluded beauty spot on the Somerset coast.

CCTV watches her arrive, but never sees her leave.

She is...

The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail

British Rail wasn't how we're...

It is the scene for our hopeful beginnings and our intended ends, and the timeless experiences of coming and going, meeting,...