T. S. Eliot called The Moonstone ‘the first, the longest and the best of detective novels’. Combining a teasing plot with a vivid portrait of Victorian England, Collins makes his charac...
A glorious collection of some of the best sleuths in the business. Including creators such as Poe and Conan Doyle to Hammet, Christie, Chandler, Rendell and Rankin. Perfect gift edition
"My favorite novel -it's just the greatest explosion of imagination, craziness, satire, humor, and heart." Daniel Radcliffe.The devil with his retinue, a poet incarcerated in ...
As a literary subject, Christmas has inspired everything from intimate domestic dramas, to fanciful flights of the imagination, and the full range of its expression is represented in this wonderful...
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of ...
The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers a dazzling variety of stories with Venetian settings, including Daphne du Maurier's haunt...
Father Christmas is missing on the busiest night of the year! Will he be found in time for the sleep before Christmas?This seasonal lift-the-flap adventure features sturdy, durable flap...
The strange and wonderful tale of man's experiences on Mars, filled with intense images and astonishing visions.The classic work that transformed Ray Bradbury into a household name. Written in the ...
Included here are famous tales like 'Sound of Thunder', in which the carelessness of a group of time-travellers leads to disastrous consequences, and 'The Veldt', in which two seemingly innocent yo...
An adorable new story in the no.1 bestselling Ten Minutes to Bed series, written specifically to help little ones settle down for bedtime and a perfect book for children with new siblings.
This most romantic of fairy tales is found in many versions, and the story of the beautiful girl who falls into a long sleep, to be awakened by a lover, has been interpreted by some as an allegory ...
In this beautifully packaged anthology A. S. Byatt, Alice Munro, Elizabeth Bowen, Sherwood Anderson, Edith Wharton, Anita Desai, Colm Tóibín, Lorrie Moore and many others reflect upon...
Water World is the stunning new book from Ben Rothery, author of Hidden Planet and Sensational Butterflies.Life on Earth is shaped by water, and only survives here because of it, but ou...
Woven through all these tales are the unique histories and mythologies of the regions of Southern Italy, encompassing Sicily, Calabria, Cantania, Basilicata, Apulia and Campania. Theocritus, Virgil...
The stories collected here--including such gems as Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky," O. Henry's "The Marry Month of May," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Bridal P...
Pedro Pony is having a superhero birthday party and Peppa is invited. But who will is the special guest?Lift the flaps to find out all the hilarious things that happen at a superhero bi...
Discover all sorts of construction vehicles in this bright, fun pop-up book!With sturdy pop-ups, playful illustrations and simple text, young children will love exploring this book as a...
Peppa, George and Grandpa Pig are visiting the zoo and discovering all the wonderful animals!Stroke Mr Lion's fluffy mane, poke the penguin's squashy tummy and touch a very bumpy tortoi...
Calm your own sleepy dragon and count down to bedtime with this new board book edition of Ten Minutes to Bed Little Dragon, part of the no. 1 bestselling Ten Minutes to Bed series.Soari...
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Eliz...