'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither...

This is the story of an old English manor house by the sea, with crumbling chimneys, draping ivy and a library full of dusty...

If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian...

London, 1842. There has been a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London's newest and grandest gentleman's club. A...

He went out, lit his pipe and walked slowly to the harbour. He could hear scurrying footsteps behind him. The sea was becoming...

The Secret Agent is Joseph Conrad's dark satire on English society, edited with an introduction and notes by Michael Newton in...

Ford Madox Ford's extraordinary novel of passion and betrayal, The Good Soldier, is edited with an introduction by David Bradshaw...

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'The palm trees around the railway station were motionless, fixed in a Saharan sun . . . It really felt as if they were stepping...

'People who've been here a long time have been talking about him. This morning, when I was having my coffee and croissants, it...

When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell any food. He went in, crossed the...

Maude Slocum is in trouble. But luckily trouble is Investigator Lew Archer's business.


A well-dressed, wealthy woman has...

'What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or,...

They say the Hollow Sea is cursed. A wild expanse separating the remote islands of St Hia, not even the locals brave its...

One morning, Anders wakes to find that his skin has turned dark, his reflection a stranger to him. At first he tells only Oona,...

Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking...

A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece.

'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that...

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work which defined him as one of America's most influential voices, and which...

Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family...

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The Great War is ending, but it has taken Ivy's son. Ivy is consumed by discovering...

Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets...

When Celeste loses her best friend Hannah, she'll do anything to keep her spirit alive.

So when she uncovers her friend's old...

'You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words...

'Florentin pulled one of those faces which had once amused his classmates so much and disarmed the teachers . . .

Maigret...

'He had realized that it was her eyes as much as her vivacity that made her look so young. They were of a blue that was paler...

The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was...

'Everything was quiet and sunny and calm. No cause for excitement whatever. It's only Marlowe, finding another body. He does it...

Daiyu was named after a ghost…
Little Daiyu is twelve when her parents disappear. So she runs, disguising herself as a boy, to...

Maigret wouldn't have admitted that what intrigued him most was the victim's face. All he had seen of it so far was one profile....

Luna, Rory and Jodie are supposed to be having the time of their lives. Instead they're all completely bloody miserable.

Luna...