Isaac Bashevis Singer's work explores humanity in all of its guises. This collection of forty-seven short stories, selected by...

The story of the man-cub Mowgli who is raised by wolves in the Indian jungle, guided by his mentors Baloo the bear, Bagheera the...

Twenty years ago, Anthony Galton vanished, along with his streetwise bride and several thousand dollars of the Galton fortune....

When Maude Slocum - beautiful, frightened and angry - comes to Lew Archer's office with a poison pen letter intended for her...

Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that...

Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick...

When a chance encounter makes him a witness to the abduction of a child, private detective Lew Archer can't help but be drawn...

A Small Circus is a powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer...

A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling...

Margaret Drabble is one of the major literary figures of her generation. In this collection of her complete short fiction from...

Dark, desolate and fantastical, The Purple Cloud was a pioneer in the genre of apocalyptic novels, and the first great science...

'I can't take any more of your revolting merciful kindness!'

Who would have thought that the great military hero Captain...

West Germany in the 1960s is a simmering cauldron of radical protests. Amid the turmoil Leo Harting, a Second Secretary in the...

Stella Rode has twice disturbed the ancient cloisters of Carne School: firstly by being the wrong sort, with her doilies and...

The eighth of John le Carre's espionage novels to feature his most enduring and well-loved character, George Smiley, and a...

Morn, a masked king, rules over a realm to which he has restored order after a violent revolution. Secretly in love with Midia,...

Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady...

Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the...

The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and...

Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an...

The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms

One of the great English popular art...

The last novel from the unsurpassed master of American detective fiction, Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man is a genre-defining...

Framed as the confession of a tormented outcast who has murdered the only woman capable of understanding him, Ernesto Sabato's...

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The short story is one of the most varied and exciting genres in American literature. This collection brings together many of its...

Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call...

In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their...

In That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John...

In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why...

Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make...

The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie...