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...

'Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything...

Grandmothers is the story of three very different women and their relationship with the younger generation: fiercely independent...

Twenty-one year old Wang Er, stationed in a remote mountain commune, spends his days herding oxen, napping and dreaming of losing...

'They didn't think for one moment that they would find anything but a burnt-out fuselage and a charred skeleton; and they were...

Gamrah's faith in her new husband is not exactly returned …

Sadeem is a little too willing to please her fiance…
Michelle is...

Anne Louvet needs to escape from Paris and from memories she cannot face. In the year 1936 she arrives at the faded Hotel du Lion...

Ghost Children is a compassionate and gritty examination of love and loss from one of Britain's most-loved writers, Sue...

A reticent personnel manager living with his mother, Mr Newman shares the prejudices of his times and of his neighbours - and...

In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert...

The latest novel in the globally bestselling Alex Cross series.

Alex Cross ventures into the rugged Montana wilderness - where...

Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe - Spies, girls and an Englishman abroad. Trust no one.

London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas...

These essays, reviews and articles illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of this century - a man who...

Self-consciously staging itself in the psychotherapy sessions of a disturbed young man, Peter Shaffer's Equus is a shocking...

'They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.'
Everybody knows...

John Updike was always as much a poet as a storyteller and the poems in this, his final collection, celebrate the everyday, even...

The first Nought Prime Minister, Toney Durbridge, is about to go on trial for the murder of notorious ganglord, Dan Jeavons....

In 1581 Edmund Campion, a Jesuit priest working underground in Protestant England, was found guilty of treason and hanged, drawn...

Eclipse was the code name given by the Allies to the occupation of Germany. Moorehead's book describes his experiences in Sicily...

In the aftermath of the uprising, the people of Silo 18 are coming to terms with a new order.

Some embrace the change, others...

Hugh Sebag-Montefiore's Dunkirk: Fight to the Last Man tells the story of the rescue in May 1940 of British soldiers fleeing...

Samuel Delany is one of the most radical and influential science fiction writers of our age, who reinvented the genre with his...

Nefyn has always been an enigma, even to her brother Joseph with whom she lives in a small cottage above a blustery...

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

Although Bram Stoker is best known for his world-famous novel Dracula, he also wrote many shorter works on the strange and the...