The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best known for its bawdy tales of love, appearing...

Collected here are Gogol's finest tales - stories which combine the wide-eyed, credulous imagination of the peasant with the sardonic social criticism of the city dweller - allowing readers to experience anew the unmistakable genius of a writer who paved...

Trees have starred in stories ever since Ovid described the nymph Daphne's metamorphosis into a laurel, and the landscape of literature has long been enlivened by wild woodlands, sacred groves, and fertile orchards. This delightful collection ranges from...

London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. But there has also been an innumerable...

The struggle for power between two magnetic personalities, the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte to Valmont, is charted through a series of brilliant letters whose shimmering surface reveals all the more clearly the cynical amorality of their authors...

It is the story of the Galactic Empire, crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule. And it is the particular story of psycho-historian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store: a dark age of ignorance, barbarism and...

Elizabeth Bowen is widely considered to be one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century. While her novels masquerade as witty comedies of manners, set in the lavish country houses of the Anglo-Irish or in elegant London homes, they mine the...

The brand-new, nail-biting Jack Ryan thriller __________ When a member of his Cabinet is killed in a plane President Jack Ryan suspects that the "accident" is anything but in this latest shocking entry in this #1 New York Times bestselling series. The...

Passion, betrayal and murder collide in a high-stakes locked-room mystery. There is only one certainty about Flight 868: there is a killer on the plane.Welcome aboard...  Flight 868 is a ticket to paradise, a non-stop service to San Juan,...

HE WILL DO ANYTHING TO SAVE HIS FAMILY, AND THE CITY HE LOVES...New York's greatest detective returns in the new thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author, James Patterson.In New York City, someone has planted a series of deadly bombs.In...

ALL FAMILIES HAVE SECRETS. BUT IT'S THE LIES THAT CAN KILL.The compelling new novel about power, money and lies from the author of Anatomy of a Scandal.‘A timely and compelling study of family guilt. Sarah Vaughan's finest novel yet' MICK...

The brand-new novel from the bestselling author of How to Kill Men and Get Away With it. ‘So engaging and easy to get lost in. I couldn’t put it down’ 5 star reader review ‘All the twists, all the drama and wit sharp enough to...

War veteran Peter Ash must infiltrate a doomsday cult in this crime thriller from award-winning author Nick Petrie.When Peter Ash's friend June Cassidy asks him for a deeply personal favour, it leads him into the murderous depths of a sinister...

The gripping new crime novel featuring Alex Delaware from the bestselling master of suspense. When a young woman is found dead at her kitchen table – with DNA belonging to her ex-boyfriend at the scene – psychologist Alex Delaware and...

'Hallucinatory, disturbing and utterly gripping ... Burke's beautiful prose never fails to grip heart and mind' Daily Mirror When a cloaked, disfigured man leaves a dead woman in a garbage bag on Dave Robicheaux's property, he knows his world and...

The breathtaking new thriller from New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor sees Taskforce operative Pike Logan tracking down an infamous assassin in Argentina.A rogue group of Iranian officials plots the assassination of the Israeli prime...

The darkest secret of the U.S. Presidency is about to be revealed. Beecher White, a young archivist for the US government, has always been the keeper of other people's stories, never a part of the story himself ...Until now. While Beecher is showing...

JASON BOURNE: THE LEANER, MEANER JAMES BOND FOR THE 21ST CENTURYBourne's latest missions is both dangerous and personal. Can he survive this deadly game?Following his lover's murder, Jason Bourne is pursuing a deeply personal revenge when he is...

THE INCREDIBLE ELEVENTH BOOK IN SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING ORPHAN-X SERIES - GUARANTEED TO THRILL YOU FROM PAGE ONE . . . Praise for the Orphan X series‘Pure nail-biting stay-up-all-night suspense’ HARLAN COBEN'Feels like a missile...

Mark Randall lay dead in a field near Lowacre long before Smith had done what he had to do in Belfast. By the time he went back to work, the investigation was well underway. “It’s not my case” he says more than once, and he really...