From the author of "Black Rock", this explores the effect of violence on a family, and is set in Trinidad and England. Taps into Smyth's own experiences of life on the islands.
For Maggie and Bill it was love at first sight . . .One impulsive wedding later and with the arrival of three perfect children, Jake, Aly and Stan, the Barrett family seem to have it all. Until the...
A late-night gambling session ends in a bet for Richard Gaunt: can he walk to Oxford by lunchtime the next day? Gaunt sets off, but as the dreaming spires near he's scooped off the roadside. He's t...
Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with spe...
Silas is the friendless misely weaver sho lives by himself in a small cottage near the village of Raveloe in the heart of the Englist countryside. He has a strange past, and just the sight of him t...
James Patterson’s BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.The golden boy of American football just went bad.Quarterback Grayson Knight has a squeaky-cl...
This humane, moving masterpiece of families, love, duels, heartache, failure and the clash between generations caused a scandal in nineteenth-century Russia with its portrayal of youthful nihilism....
A collection of 11 unmissable short stories from the number 1 internationally bestselling author of Me Before You and After YouNell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's neve...
Tender is the Night is a story set in the hedonistic high society of Europe during the ‘Roaring Twenties’. A wealthy schizophrenic, Nicole Warren, falls in love with Dick Diver - her ps...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, ...
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, ...
Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest...
The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's improvidence. I stopped ...
Like his legendary, Pulitzer Prize winning novel THE HOURS, Cunningham's masterly new novel is a heart-breaking look at the way we live now. Full of shocks and aftershocks, BY NIGHTFALL makes us th...
The first glimpse of the sea on Marine Drive filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's improvidence. I stopped ...
Daniel, senior rodu MacGregorów, trafia do szpitala. Trwa ciężka operacja. Anna, żona Daniela od niemal czterdziestu lat, z lękiem oczekując na jej wynik, wraca myślami do przeszłości.
Subtitled 'A Romantic Novel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race', The Torrents of Spring - Hemingway's second published work - wonderfully parodies the themes and styles of the 'great race' of...
Rok 1922. Nowy Jork – stolica jazzu, mody i prohibicji. To tutaj spełnia się amerykański sen. To tutaj, na Manhattanie, młodziutka i zdolna Nell dostaje wymarzoną pracę w salonie projektanta ...
Elinor is as prudent as her sister Marianne is impetuous. Each must learn from the other after they are they are forced by their father's death to leave their home and enter into the contests of po...
An aspiring young Berlin actress turns the tables on her lustful middle-aged admirer, in Nabokov's deadpan, deliciously cruel story of hopeless infatuation and horribly inventive revenge.