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...
T. S. Eliot called The Moonstone ‘the first, the longest and the best of detective novels’. Combining a teasing plot with a vivid portrait of Victorian England, Collins makes his charac...
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
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
Baron Munchausen’s absurd adventures have entertained adults and children alike for more than two centuries. First published in England in 1785, his traveller’s tales soon became as wel...
Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis St...
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Eliz...
Porzucona przez ukochanego, Cretego Asgara, Timoney George zgadza się na zaaranżowane przez wuja małżeństwo ze znacznie starszym mężczyzną. Dzień przed planowanym ślubem, w wigilię Bożego Narodzeni...
Panny Wilkins, bogate Amerykanki, zostały wysłane do Anglii, by dobrze wyjść za mąż. Dwie odnalazły tu miłość, ale Violet zniechęca wszystkich zalotników. Jej pasją jest fotografia, marzy o ...
Lucy zarabia na życie, ucząc muzyki. Poznany w niezwykłych okolicznościach lord Max Burnham składa jej korzystną ofertę. Chce, by Lucy dyskretnie ustaliła, z kim potajemnie flirtuje jego przyrodnia...
AModelka Mia Forde bierze udział w pokazie biżuterii najbardziej znanego salonu jubilerskiego w Paryżu należącego do Daniela Devilliersa. Uznała, że to najlepszy sposób, by dotrzeć do ...
Georgie przygotowuje wykwintną kolację dla księcia Abbasa Husseina, który właśnie kupił londyński hotel, stając się tym samym jej szefem. Gdy stawia przed nim na stole kolejne danie i ma zam...
AMary Jones w zastępstwie swojej szefowej idzie na kolację biznesową z Erikiem Ridgemontem. Żałuje, że się zgodziła, bo Ridgemont od pierwszej chwili budzi w niej niechęć i lęk. Zupełnie inne...