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An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home…Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrie...

`It is hoped that we are not destined to see very much more of each other, Mr Carleton! You arouse in me an almost overmastering desire to give you...

Ever since its first publication, John Gray's relationship classic, MEN ARE FROM MARS, WOMEN ARE FROM VENUS has held its place at the top of the in...

Captain Hastings recounts 18 of Poirot’s early cases from the days before he was famous… Hercule Poirot delighted in telling people that he was pro...

Six Four . The nightmare no parent could endure. The case no detective could solve. The twist no listener could predict. For five days in January 1...

Set In An Unnamed Caribbean Seaport, Garcia Marquez's Extraordinary Love In The Time Of Cholera (1988) Relates One Of Literature's Most Remarkable ...

THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE is a novel about memory and magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us.

From the impish to the brilliantly comic, Vikram Seth's animal fables in verse can (like Diwali sweets) be enjoyed by young and old alike. Familiar...

A full-length Hercule Poirot novel, adapted from Agatha Christie’s stage play by Charles Osborne Sir Claud Amory’s revolutionary new formula for a ...

The human eye is so complex and works so precisely that surely, one might believe, its current shape and function must be the product of design. Ho...

Adventuress and opportunist, Ethelberta reinvents herself to disguise her humble origins, launching a brilliant career as a society poet in London ...

When a group of bohemians takes over Arcadia, a house on the seafront, Lottie Swift and Celia are as drawn to its temptations as Merhams citizens a...

India’s Westernized elite, cut off from local traditions, ‘want to write a full stop in a land where there are no full stops’. From that striking i...

In The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins crystallized the gene's eye view of evolution developed by W.D. Hamilton and others. The book provoked widespr...

The Western world has experienced extraordinary economic progress throughout the last six decades, a prosperous period so extended that continuous ...

Hercule Poirot is summoned when a young woman is accused of murdering her wealthy aunt's house companion

The third stunning thriller in the Kate Brannigan series, from No.1 Sunday Times bestseller Val McDermid. ‘This is crime writing of the very highes...

Indian tennis star Arya Ashok is twenty-seven and ranked among the world's top ten players. But she's dogged by a breathing disorder, and a Grand S...

The Mallen Litter is the third and final part of the multi-generation story of the Mallens, which began with The Mallen Streak and continued with T...

'Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin ...' In this book, the explosion that detonates the narrative also...

About The Book : The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins is a 19th-century British epistolary novel. It is an early example of the modern detective novel, ...

Douglas Yandell, a youngish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be...

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the American Civil War, Margaret Mitchell's magnificent historical epic is an unforgettable tale of love and l...

After rejecting all of her more respectable suitors, Abigail Wendover faces the formidable task of persuading her wealthy family to accept Miles Ca...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins.In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Aus...

Everything is familiar. But everything has changed. Coming back to the little community is like walking into a nightmare for Jim Gardener, poet, dr...

Mary Ann Evans (22 November 1819 - 22 December 1880; alternatively "Mary Anne" or "Marian"), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English nov...

In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane. For disill...

Unsuccessful in his ambitions, the young and naive Peter Schlemihl seals a pact with the Devil in which he exchanges his shadow for the purse of Fo...

Banished from England for seeking to marry against his father's wishes, Ivanhoe joins Richard the Lion Heart on a crusade in the Holy Land. On his ...

The story of two sets of "cruel and bloody bigots" at war in late 17th century Scotland.

Is there really such a thing as a good luck charm? Ex-soldier Logan Thibault thinks he just might have found one. Haunted by memories of the friend...

As a wit, Wilde lived by his own maxim: "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." A...

This is a collection of the poetic works of Oscar Wilde. The majority of these poems were written before he was 27, with a handful of impressionist...

On The Road Swings To The Rhythms Of 1950s Underground America, Jazz, Sex, Generosity, Chill Dawns And Drugs, With Sal Paradise And His Hero Dean M...

A baby rescued from the snow. A wealthy familys tragic secret. A girl determined to make her mark. One winters night, Molly Earnshaw rescues a newb...

Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Franks remarkable diary has since become a world classic—a powerful rem...

I Have A Vission Of The Songlines Stretching Across Thr Continent And That Wherever Men Have Trodden They Have Left A Train Of Song And That These ...

This novel, written when Dickens was only 25 years old, immediately brought him immense popularity. Presenting a host of now-classic characters in ...

Michael Corleones exile in Sicily is ending, but on the instructions of his father, The Godfather, he must bring back to him the young man known as...

Death comes from the sky in this thrilling War of the Worlds graphic novel adaptation!Several days ago, projectiles from the Red Planet began to ra...

Missing, presumed dead for three years, Sherlock Holmes returns triumphantly to his dear companion Dr. Watson. And not before time! London has neve...

Italo Calvinos masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book be...

The Toll-Gate is a Regency novel by Georgette Heyer, which takes place in 1817. Unlike many of Heyer's historical novels which concentrate on a plu...

Lewis Crane was a child when the devasting Los Angeles earthquake of 1994 ripped his life apart, leaving him the sole survivor of his family.Now, t...