'Though she wounded me beyond pain, I too inflicted deep hurt. Not born to murder her, still I sought to break her... Her name...

Dauntless Liza Jarrett, born at the dawn of the twentieth century, is now in her eighties, frail and facing eviction with her...

First published in 1962 as 'La Placa del Diamant', this is considered the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new...

In the final novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader...

In the first novel of her stunning trilogy, Mary Renault vividly imagines the life of Alexander the Great, the charismatic leader...

'This crazy world whirled around her, men and women dwarfed by toys and puppets, where even the birds are mechanical and the few...

A.L. Barker dissects the unnerving emotions of everyday life with the sly humour and exquisite feel for language that prompted...

The scene is Naples, against whose ancient and fantastic background the modern action takes place.

Among the protagonists is...

Caro, gallant and adventurous, is one of two Australian sisters who have come to post-war England to seek their fortunes. Courted...

When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the...

Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young, and she's in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears...

Shortly before the Second World War, a column by 'Mrs Miniver' appeared in
The Times, the first of many recounting the everyday...

To his parents' dismay, Colin Keith - out of the noble but misplaced sense of duty peculiar to high-minded young university...

It's August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted, and Richard Tebben, just down from Oxford, is contemplating the gloomy...

Annabel Christopher is every inch the star: a glamorous actress with a devoted, handsome husband. To keep the paparazzi and her...

Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an...

Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls...

Seventeen-year-old Alan can't stand rows. But, though the Second World War has ended, peace hangs by a fine thread at home: his...

'The motto was Pax but the word was set in a circle of thorns. Peace, but what a strange peace, made of unremitting toil and...

Harriet is caught between two worlds: her older sister is no longer a playmate, her brother is still a little boy. And the...

High in the Himalayas near Darjeeling, the old mountaintop palace shines like a jewel. When it was the General's 'harem' palace,...

Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary,...

On the banks of the River Avon, five sisters are born. The seasons come and go, the girls take their lessons under the ash tree,...

Set in London and Monmouth in the late 1700s, this is an extraordinary novel about Mary Saunders, the young daughter of a poor...

When newly orphaned Cassandra Dashwood arrives as governess to little Sophy, the scene seems set for the archetypal romance...

The soldier returns from the front to the three women who love him. His wife, Kitty, with her cold, moonlight beauty, and his...

'"You know,'"Midge began, and paused. She was rather taken aback, and could not at once think of anything to say. "Perhaps...

When Rainclouds Gather: Escaping South Africa and his troubled past, Makehaya crosses the border to Botswana, in the hope of...

Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband s family in...

In Muriel Spark's fantastic first novel, the only things that aren't ambiguous are her matchless originality and glittering...