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Controversy has surrounded Pericles for centuries, due to the fact that critics and editors have argued that much of the play was written between 1...

A thriller by the author of "The Day of the Jackal", "The Odessa File" and "The Dogs of War".

Set during the Jacobite rising in Scotland in 1745, this novel springs from Scott's childhood recollections and his desire to preserve in writing t...

From the author of the critically acclaimed What Alice Forgot comes a breakout new novel about the secrets husbands and wives keep from each other....

About the Book: Regency Buck Georgette Heyer is unbeatable. Sunday Telegraph. A beautifully repackaged edition of one of the best of the best. It i...

As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and it greatest triumph--th...

The tale of the beautiful Lorna, who was kidnapped by the Doones, a band of outlaws who terrorise Exmoor. Lorna yearns to be back with her family. ...

A morally complex and mature work from a modern masterIN THIS later novel by Graham Greene-featuring a new introduction-the author continues to exp...

Richard Sharpe and the Battle of Fuentes de O?oro, May 1811 In the spring of 1811, while quartered in the crumbling Portuguese fort of San Isidro, ...

Rejected by the incomparable Miss Milborne for his unsteadiness of character, wild Lord Sheringham is bent on avenging Fate and coming into his for...

The Italian evening class at Mountainview School is like hundreds of others starting up all over the city. But this class has its own special quali...

It is 498 years since the two Foundations came into existence – half-way through the Interregnum planned by Hari Seldon. The Second Foundation has ...

Lady Constantine Breaks All The Rules Of Social Decorum When She Falls In Love With The Beautiful Youth Swithin St Cleeve, Her Social Inferior And ...

A death row confession propels a homicide detective into an investigation that will tear Miami apart in #1 New York Times –bestselling author Arthu...

Thomas Hardy spent much of his youth in the historical town of Dorchester, and it is to these familiar surroundings that he turns for the setting o...

Hercule Poirot is intrigued by the details surrounding the murder of wealthy Mrs Inglethorp, mistress of Styles Court. This was Agatha Christie's f...

'As nearly perfect as any book can be. It is straightforward, it has simplicity and unsentimental tragedy, and it has a swift, unforced style which...

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters co-author Ben H. Winters is back with an all-new collaborator, legendary Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy, and t...

In this classic collection of four novellas, the grand master takes you on irrestistible journeys into the far reaches of horror, heartache and hop...

Lethal Secrets...Special Agent Samantha Quest won't hesitate to shake the highest Levels of government and confront the ruthless to discover who as...

 Christmas Eve. The Lee Family Reunion Is Shattered By A Deafening Crash Of Furniture, Followed By A High-pitched Wailing Scream. The Tyrannical Si...

WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR(1564-1616) Is Acknowledged As The Greatest Dramatist Of All Time. He Excels In Plot, Poetry And Wit, And His And His Talent Enco...

What would you do if your everyday world were turned upside down in an instant? In this collection of twist-in-the-tale stories of suspense you can...

Murder, stolen plans, a mysterious death and a menage a trois – four intriguing novellas featuring Hercule Poirot…How did a woman holding a pistol ...

worldwide bestseller first published in 1980, this novel tells the story of Jennifer Parker, a successful lawyer who is loved by two men, one a pol...

The Man in the Iron Mask is the final episode in the cycle of novels featuring Dumas celebrated foursome of D Artagnan, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, ...

Luke Fitzwilliam could not believe Miss Pinkerton's wild allegation that a multiple murderer was at work in the quiet English village of Wychwood.....

Wickedness...such wickedness...."The dying woman turned to Father Gorman with agony in her eyes. "Stopped....It must be stopped....You will...."The...

 seance in a snowbound Dartmoor house predicts a grisly murder…In a remote house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a sma...

Heart Of Darkness Is The Finest Of All Conrad's Tales, Showing Him At The Height Of His Powers As A Writer Of Great Vividness, Intensity, And Sophi...

 perfect introduction to Agatha Christie - four of the best Hercule Poirot stories, chosen for their readability and sense of adventure. A man is f...

Lemony had an unusual education and a perplexing youth and now endures a despondent adulthood. His previous published works include the thirteen vo...

The Book That Topped The International Online Poll Held In Agatha Christie’s 125th Birthday Year To Discover Which Of Her 80 Crime Books Was The Wo...

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire' J. K. RowlingCatherine Morland is a young girl with a very active imagination. Her n...

The adventures of a mischievous 19th century boy in a Mississippi River town and his friends Huck Finn and Becky Thatcher.

The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi-comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout...

Alongside such familiar favourites as Edward Thomas's 'Adlestrop', John Masefield's 'Sea-Fever', Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchya...

Set In The Gulf Stream Off The Coast Of Havana, Hemingway's Magnificent Fable Is The Story Of An Old Man, A Young Boy And A Giant Fish.Here, In A P...

Outside a peaceful town in central Maine, a monster is waiting... Cujo is a two-hundred-pound Saint Bernard, the best friend Brett Camber has ever ...

A middle-aged diplomat is accosted in an airport lounge and his identity stolen…Sir Stafford Nye’s journey home from Malaya to London takes an unex...

Soon after Sally Lockharts father drowns at sea, she receives a strange anonymous letter. The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fear at h...

Tommy And Tuppence Beresford Were Restless For Adventure, So When They Were Asked To Take Over Blunt’s International Detective Agency, They Leapt A...

It  is 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, has just embarked on a motoring trip through the west of England that will become a jou...

This edition of the poetry of Rudyard Kipling contains all of his verse. His poetry uses many rhythms and popular forms of speech, ranging from dra...