Set in British India in the 1920s, this book looks at racial conflict. The characters struggle to overcome their own differences and prejudices, but when the Indian Dr Aziz is tried for the alleged...
Published in 1916 when Joyce was already at work on Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is exactly what its title says and much more. In part a vivid picture of Joyce’s own youth...
This brilliantly coloured tale of the French Revolution is an historical romance set in Paris and London. Famous for the character of Sidney Carton who sacrifices himself upon the guillotine' it is...
When sixteen-year-old Drew Gamble shoots dead the cop who was abusing his family, he becomes the most hated person in Clanton, Mississippi.The townsfolk expect Drew to be convicted and go to ...
HIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED. BUT SO ARE YOURS.'Keeps readers on the edge of their seats through a roller-coaster ride of high-octane action that builds to an explosive finale' SUNDAY EXPRESS<...
A biting satire on dictatorship written during the Second World War and published in 1945, ANIMAL FARM is perhaps the most celebrated twentieth-century English satire after the same writer's NINETE...
A charming new bumper short-story collection from the world’s best-loved storyteller.A fantastic collection of 30 stories about animals of all shapes and sizes, this will charm ch...
As Scheherazade proved long ago, good stories make the best bedtime entertainment. The tales collected here represent the essence of the storyteller's art, with its ancient roots in fantastical leg...
Welcome to The Death Zone.Fourteen mountains on Earth tower over 8,000 metres above sea level, an altitude where the brain and body withers and dies. Until recently, the world record fo...
'Adventurously shape-shifting yet always disciplined, it's a dazzling return to form' The Sunday Times'A thriller with a surprisingly heartfelt and redemptive ending, Billy Summers is a compe...
Dominic:I got her fired.Okay, so I’d had a bad day, but there’s nothing innocent about Ally Morales. Maybe her colourful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality b...
In Lord Byron's lifetime, details of his travels were widely known through poems set in different countries, ranging from his homes in Scotland and England, through Europe and the Middle East, to t...
Following John Grisham's international bestsellers, Camino Island and Camino Winds, Camino Ghosts is the story of an island off the Florida coast with a haunted, violent history and an uncertain fu...
A beautiful hardback classic edition of King's first published novel, CARRIE, produced for the fiftieth Anniversary, with a new introduction by Margaret Atwood. Carrie White is no ordi...
The internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East and West in his new epic: ChinaChina in the nineteenth century: a proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigner...
Christine, blood-red, fat, and finned, was twenty. Her promise lay all in her past. Greedy and big, she was Arnie's obsession, a '58 Plymouth Fury. Broken down but not finished. There was still pow...
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...
Trust no one. Danger, romance and excitement await in the unputdownable and addictive New York Times bestselling sequel to Crave. When she arrived at Katmere Academy, mortal Grace's world turned up...
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
The unforgettable canines gathered here include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull ...