**AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT**'The No.1 Greatest Crime Writer' The Times'Ripley, amoral, hedonistic and charming, is a genuinely original creation' …
'Marvellously, insanely readable... Highsmith has done it again' The Times"There's no such thing as a perfect murder... That's just a parlor game, trying to dream one up."Tom …
Widely acclaimed since publication, The French Lieutenant's Woman is John Fowles' best-loved novel and the ultimate in epic historical romance. Charles Smithson, a respectable …
**AS SEEN ON WRITE AROUND THE WORLD WITH RICHARD E GRANT**A brilliant story of intrigue, retribution, revenge and redemption.Imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Edmond Dantès …
A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South …
No longer a boy, not quite a man, Edwin Clayhanger stands on a canal bridge on his last day of school, and surveys the valley of Bursley and the Five Towns. Serious, good-natured …
Mysterious disappearances, domestic cases, noiseless, bloodless snuffings-out… the law can look as deep as it likes, but when the crime itself goes unsuspected… oh yes, there's …
TRANSLATED AND INTRODUCED BY DAVID LUKEDeath in Venice is a story of obsession. Gustave von Aschenbach is a successful but ageing writer who travels to Venice for a holiday. One …
'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...'Lucie Manette has been separated from her father for eighteen years while he languished in Paris's most feared prison, the …
'One of the most compassionate of all writers...you feel a kind of agony of helpless tenderness in the writer for all troubled souls' The Times Jude Fawley is a young man who longs …
