Read the first historical novel - this tale of romance and adventure during the 1745 Jacobite rebellion will stir the blood and...

George Gissing's best-known novel shows us the literary underbelly of Victorian England, and the writers striving to forge their...

The author of Horizon's classic work explores the Arctic landscape and the hold it continues to exert on our imagination.
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The first modern spy novel and a must-read for espionage junkies and fans of James Bond and John Le Carre.

When Carruthers...

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his...

Discover George Eliot's first novel, a tale of rural tragedy and redemption.

It may seem like an old tale: the beautiful...

Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out… the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the...

Melding his native Irish sensibilities to those of his adopted west-coast Scotland, these tales attend to life’s big events: love...

Malignant forces and supernatural visitors haunt this selection of superbly spooky tales selected and introduced by Ruth...

Discover the classic Gothic horror novel of haunted cellars, opera, murder and unrequited love that inspired Andrew Lloyd...

In 1950, no mountain higher than 8,000 meters had ever been climbed. Maurice Herzog and other members of the French Alpine Club...

A novel which chronicles the lines of three generations of the Brangwen family and the emergence of modern England.

Set...

An exhilarating satire of Eighties excess that captures the effervescent spirit of New York, from one of the greatest writers of...

Edgar Allan Poe was a writer of uncommon talent; in The Murders in the Rue Morgue he created the genre of detective fiction while...

'The novel has everything: absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics' The Times

When...

The House of Mirth follows the tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage...

Set in 1900s, this is a lushly descriptive and highly autobiographical portrayal of a young man growing up in class-divided...

A brilliant and heart-rending evocation of destructive passion.

When John Dowell and his wife befriend Edward and Leonora...

'The greatest love story I've ever read' Andrew Davies

Anna Karenina is a novel of unparalleled richness and complexity, set...

On his third birthday Oskar decides to stop growing. Haunted by the deaths of his parents and wielding his tin drum Oskar...

'P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so...

This ebullient, gallivanting novel encapsulates the world vision of the Czech Republic's best-loved author in one tumbling,...

Geoffrey Braithwaite is a retired doctor haunted by an obsession with the great French literary genius, Gustave Flaubert. As...

The first novel from the great, incomparable Thomas Pynchon.

The quest for V. sweeps us through sixty years and a panorama of...

These seven stories were the last that Carver wrote. Among them is one of his longest, 'Errand', in which he imagines the death...

With this, his first collection, Carver breathed new life into the short story. In the pared-down style that has since become his...

Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins.

When she is captured she joins a...

After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path....

This volume collects together Sherlock Holmes's most memorable and intriguing cases, including adventures with mysterious masked...

The Mayor of Casterbridge is a man haunted by his past. In his youth he betrayed his wife and baby daughter in a shocking...