FICTION NOVELS

A sequel to the banned novel, The Rainbow , Women in Love follows the tumultuous lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula. Turning his keen...

Features a wily fox who is outwitted by a quick-thinking cicada, a tortoise who is triumphing over a self-confident hare and a fable-teller named A...

One million dollars – that's what Harvey Metcalfe, lifelong king of shady deals, has pulled off with empty promises of an oil bonanza and instant r...

Queenie Jenkins can't cut a break. Well, apart from one from her long term boyfriend, Tom. That's definitely just a break though. Definitely not a ...

10 witty and enchanting animal fables in verse which, like a modern Aesops Fables, can be enjoyed by young and old alike, from the author of A Suit...

Hard Times: For These Times is the tenth novel by Charles Dickens, first published in 1854. The book surveys English society and satirises the soci...

The son of Norwegian parents, Roald Dahl was born in Wales in 1916 and educated at Repton. He was a fighter pilot for the RAF during World War Two,...

Men, towards the end of the last millennium, felt a sudden tightening of the bowels with the news that the services of their sex had at last been d...

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien CBE FRSL was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The H...

It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none...

Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the ...

Read Charles Dickens’s first novel.The Pickwick Papers was Dickens' first novel and was a huge success when it was first published. It tells the ta...

With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Scott Brewster, University of Central Lancashire Wilkie Collins is a master of mystery, and The Woman in White...

Set In Hardys Wessex, Tess Is A Moving Novel Of Hypocrisy And Double Standards. Its Challenging Sub-title, A Pure Woman, Infuriated Critics When Th...

Generally regarded as the pre-eminent work of Conrads shorter fiction, Heart of Darkness is a chilling tale of horror which, as the author intended...

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy has, in what we laughingly call the past, had a great deal to say on the subject of parallel universes. Very ...

On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Sa...

Set in the rural midlands of England, The Rainbow revolves around three generations of the Brangwen family over a period of more than sixty years, ...

Here is Douglas Adamss indispensable guide to life, the universe and everything. This sublime collection dips into the wit and wisdom of the man be...

Jeanie has been a loving wife to George for over thirty years, a devoted mother to their daughter and, recently, an adoring grandmother – all this ...

The Tragedie of Julius Caesar dates from around 1599, and was first published by Heminge and Condell as the sixth play in the Tragedies section of ...

Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever, rich, and quite certain she is immune to romance. Inspired by the recent marriage of her friend and governess,...

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, Professor of English Literature, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Serie...

 young and lovely runaway alone on the road to London Miss Charity Steane is running away from the drudgery of her aunt's household to find her gra...

This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirat...

 Persuasion , her last novel, Jane Austen reveals her most mature dissection of people, place and social setting. Like the earlier works Persuasion...

Meek outsider among her cousins in the Unaccustomed elegance of Mansfield Park. Soon after Sir Thomas absents himself on estate business in Antigua...

From the worlds biggest selling author comes another nail-biting page-turner. Paperback , 332 pages Published July 1st 2003 by Pan MacMillan (first...

Another four of Agatha Christie’s twelve, celebrated Miss Marple novels in a single volume, bound in the stylish livery of the new series. A Caribb...

Raven is a ruthless assassin, a hired killer, whose cold-blooded murder of the Minister for War will have violent repercussions across Europe. As t...

La Bete humaine (1890), the seventeenth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, is one of Zola's most violent and explicit works. On one level a tale ...

Sparkling characterisation and inventive plot from one of the best known and beloved detective novelists of all time.\r\n\r\nThe sixtieth birthday ...

Jeremy Marsh is the ultimate New Yorker: handsome, almost always dressed in black, and part of the media elite. An expert on debunking the supernat...

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*A spy is dead. A legend is born. Read the explosive new James Bond thriller.*****A British agent floats in the wat...

An absorbing mystery as well as a morality tale, the story of Pip, a poor village lad, and his expectations of wealth is Dickens at his most delici...

North and South tells the story of Margaret Hale, a southerner newly settled in the northern industrial town of Milton, whose ready sympathy with t...