Scott Fitzgerald was called the laureate of the Jazz Age. The Great Gatsby (1926) is a cynical celebration of the post-Great War Long Island/ New York world of get-rich-quick. The narrator, Nick Ca...
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 ...
Bruce Wayne has returned to Gotham City to search for a childhood friend who has disappeared. His investigations lead him to violent altercations with Killer Croc and the Penguin as well as confron...
The future world faces a new peril when The Atom restores the miniature people of the bottle city of Kandor to their true size, unwittingly releasing an invading force of Kryptonians!Th...
The Dark Knight is bringing justice to the streets of Gotham City, but his continuing one-man war has its consequences. Psychologist Hugo Strange is on his case, believing he should be tracked down...
Little Billy's mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond.So, one day, that's exactgly what he does.There he meets the Minpins: miniature p...
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...
The Reaper returns to Gotham, showing criminals no mercy - and Batman has to concoct a dangerous plan to defeat him and find the killer of his parents.This exciting DC Comics Graphic No...
Jack Reacher, "the coolest continuing series character" (Stephen King), returns in a brand new, pulse-pounding read from Lee and Andrew Child.Chicago. 1992. A hospital patient...
Up until now, middle school hasn't exactly been a joyride for Greg Heffley. So when the town threatens to close the crumbling building, he's not too broken up about it. But when Greg re...
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...
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 ...
Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration. Fairy-tale and fantasy were his forte and in later life he responded to the dark sti...
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...
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...
Peter Rabbit is off to visit his friend Squirrel Nutkin! On his way, he comes across many familiar friends and asks all sorts of questions about their homes . . . Will Peter find out he and his fri...
A brand new seasonal title in the Peter Rabbit Tales series that every generation of Beatrix Potter fans will love.With new, humorous illustrations of Beatrix Potter's well-loved charac...
'This is probably one of the greatest fantasy sequences ever written. Darkly magical and intense Cooper weaves her storytelling wonder over fully realised characters and worlds, drawing in the read...