'My guest was lying sprawled on his back, there was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor ...'Richard Hannay has just returned to England after years in South Africa and is thoroughly bored with his life in London. But then a...

' "Oh, my dear, relations are like drugs, - useful sometimes, and even pleasant, if taken in small quantities and seldom, but dreadfully pernicious on the whole, and the truly wise avoid them" 'Taking respite from the Man of Wrath, her children and her...

'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger'The French Terror is raging, and few are safe from the threat of the guillotine. Sir Percy Blakeney, a foppish Englishman, decides to rescue imprisoned aristocrats before they...

'I saw him taking a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies all fell off him, and, as they were in the very act of falling, there issued ... a monstrous creature of the beetle type'Eminent politician Paul Lessingham is the toast of...

The return of the beautiful Countess Olenska into the rigidly conventional society of New York sends reverberations throughout the upper reaches of society.Newland Archer, an eligible young man of the establishment is about to announce his engagement to...

'The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed'Spirited Jo March, now Mrs Bhaer, has settled into living and teaching at Plumfield boarding school, also home to...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me...

'Such a heartwarming read' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'You just read and escape' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Can a pair of later-in-life lovebirds find their way to one another along the cobbled streets of Oxford? Or will one too many bumps along the way throw their romance off course? Everyone...

Lucie and Elliot don’t trust each other, but as they’re forced together to work on a script that could launch both of their dream careers, the sparks flying between them are impossible to deny… “Sexy, funny and just PERFECT for...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Luckiest Girl Alive and Bright Young Women comes the highly anticipated, heart-pounding thriller with twists you'll never see coming…'Dark, twisty, and wildly addictive...

A burnt-out bookseller.A lovesick orc.Is fate enough to keep them together?In Claw Haven, Alaska, monsters are real – but what about fated mates?Vi Harper is good at many things and great at pretending she’s got her life figured out. Truth...

There's something lurking in the stifling darkness and labyrinthine tunnels that run below London... something old, something vicious, and something very, very hungry.     It's the hottest summer on record and London is dying. Prices...

A threatened mother and a relentless detective collide when a series of murders awaken something long buried in the New Mexican desert in this mesmerizing novel of literary horror, perfect for fans of Carmen Maria Machado and Stephen Graham Jones. "A...

A family moves into their dream home – only to discover that it hides an insatiable hunger – in this dread-laced and darkly outrageous domestic horror novel. Nasty, smart, satisfying, and enormously fun – Scott Hawkins, author...

Inspired by the #tradwifetok phenomenon, a novel in which trad wives with dark personal secrets in a small beach town find themselves embroiled in scandal when one of their husbands goes missing, and their traditional—and not so...

"When I want utterly romantic novels...Susan Lee is the author I go for!" --Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author on Julia Song is UndateableTwo enemies-to-lovers, one unforgettable summer escape…Jia Chung is living the...

He’s the arrogant billionaire intent on revenge. She’s the woman who’ll stop at nothing to get justice. Even if it means getting uncomfortably close to the man she hates. Rafael Fairfax: devastatingly handsome, notoriously difficult...

She’s planning their life together. He’s planning to end hers. A serendipitous meet-cute between a bubbly travel influencer and a reclusive billionaire gets twisted in this immensely sexy, darkly funny romance. One misdirection, and...

Josie Boots never knew her mother. But everyone in the small town of Burnville had heard the rumours. Raised by her grandmother, Karen, Josie has always wanted to know the truth behind the whispers. Who was her father? How did her mother die? And...

If the past catches up with you, time travel can be murder . . .London, the present day: commercial time travel is a reality.Tempus Tours – owned by controversial tech entrepreneur Inigo Frank – offers the wealthy a chance to relive history...