Superb supernatural stories from a supreme exponent of the genre.

A collection of Nancy Mitford essays, journalism and reviews spanning her career between 1929 to 1971.

Award-winning biographer Selina Hastings skillfully depicts the life and times of Evelyn Waugh

A hardback gift edition of an early Mitford novel.

A woman called Colette passes a summer in Provence, contemplating her past, laying plans for a future – which may not include sexual love.

A disturbing, compelling story of violence and emotional violence and the search for love.

Family and sexual intrigue in 1920s France.

Sand's last published work: romance with a feminist twist.

Unique pairing of two blistering pieces on The Jazz Age.

A brilliant tale of love, deception, betrayal and spirituality in 1950s London.

Two novels which evoke Greece and Rome in different eras.

Dark and secretive characters inhabit post WWI Rome.

MacNeice's only novel is a picaresque, inter-war romp.

A fascinating female and psychological perspective on wartime military culture.

The inaugural James Tait Black Prize winner; a fascinating blend of personal passion and epoch-defining politics.

A collection of stories including the classic Roman Fever

An early Mitford outing that will delight her many followers.

An exquisitely crafted, fairy tale-like novel, championed by Margaret Drabble

A sparkling World War II story from Nancy Mitford.

Enthralling stories from one of Britain's best loved writers.

The prototype of all classic crime fiction.

A wicked satirical examination of the British legal system.

A moving and skilful evocation of life in old age.

Old truths are revealed as a match-making scheme unravels in 19th century Anglo-Ireland

Anne Brontë's first novel

New collection to mark the centenary of the writer's death.

The book that became The Prelude

The Capuchin version of this timeless tale.

Capuchin's own beautiful edition of this seminal 20th century work.

Galsworthy's first novel set the tone for his attacks on upper class hypocrisy.

A dazzling, experimental novel about identity and fiction.

When the bright young things meet the old regime on a Scottish grouse moor, the real sport begins.

A dark, intense tale of bitter family dysfunction.

One of only two full-length novels by Saki.

Cultures clash and war threatens as a love affair begins in 1930s Peking.

A study of erotic obsession and the nature of genius.

Herbert Read’s only novel is a sustained piece of political and philosophical fantasy.

A brilliant exploration of the French Catholic soul.

One of the most powerful and romantic novels ever written

A wonderful evocation of nineteenth century Paris.

Master of the macabre and suspense, Edgar Allan Poe’s short stories have sent shivers down spines of generations of readers.

Dazzling short stories chronicle the ‘Lost Generation’ of London youth in the 1920’s

Moving examination of First World War pacifism

A passionate novel of love and war, set in the 1920's.

A fascinating insight into 1960's London through a fictional lens.

A ripping yarn featuring the prototype for Indiana Jones.

A dark, compelling tale of obsession, murder and their grim consequences.

In the quiet Welsh village of Bishop’s Eywas, little Shirley inspires a chain of events not to be explained by reason.

A riches to rags odyssey - ideal for the credit crunch culture.

Shipwrecked and cast adrift, Lemuel Gulliver wakes to find himself on Lilliput, an island inhabited by little people, whose height makes their quarrels over fashion and fame seem ridiculous.

Vercors’ classic novel raising the question: What is man?

A classic tale of familial love and loyalty.

Beautiful, connected short stories by the Pulitzer-prize winner, who is celebrated in Joseph Heller's Closing Time.

“The south wind blows constantly during the spring and summer. Hardly less constantly in autumn. And in winter, often for weeks on end.”

Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Book Award for Fiction.

The Conclave charts the first thirty years in the life of a suburban dilettante with aesthetic aspirations, who, in the 1980s, begins a lucrative career.

A poignant and perceptive study of a marriage of a marriage in difficulty.

One man's search for love and meaning in rural France and Paris.

A look behind the staff room door of a boys' public school, into the hearts and minds of two rival masters.

A look behind the staff room door of a boys' public school, into the hearts and minds of two rival masters.

Kent, the ‘Garden of England’ provides the rustic setting for these poignant stories from the creator of The Darling Buds of May.
The H. E. Bates Society

The three stories in this volume are often considered as a trilogy on the destructive power of sexual passion, yet this is the first time they have been published together as a single volume.

A review of the author’s writing by Robbie Clipper Sethi, 1994

Set in the year before the Wall Street crash, Juan in America is a classic evocation of the final mania of prohibition, as seen through equally maverick British eyes.
Time magazine review, May 1931

When the naive David Balfour sets out on his quest for a long lost relative, a terrifying chain of events is set in motion. He is plunged into a world of infamy and violence from which there seems no escape.
The Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship for Scottish writers who want to further their career in literature

 The Hireling was made into a film starring Sarah Miles and Robert Shaw.

 Considered by many to be one of the greatest crime novels ever written, The Hound of the Baskervilles is an absolute classic of the genre.

Donn Byrne was a story-teller, the last, as he himself explained, of a long line of Irish story-tellers. He belonged to the school of the romantic, the rhetorical, the magical – in short to the stylists of story-telling.
Israeli composer Max Stern adapted the novel into an opera

An article on the roots of Eileen Goudge’s writing. by Tony Jaros Vegetarian Times, August, 1995

G.K. Chesterton’s little priest investigates his own murder in the first of eight unusual cases.

The Dark Flower covers almost 30 years in the life and loves of Mark Lennan, opening in 1880 with Mark an 18-year-old undergraduate studying art at Oxford.

Picture a London in the future where democracy is dead.

Dracula is a classic of British fiction. Count Dracula is the epitome of evil, exotic and real enough to be the subject of several modern day films.

An interview with Bram Stoker about Dracula, conducted by Jane Stoddard, in the British Weekly, 1 July 1897.

The Man Who Knew Everything is not a tragedy: though it contains pain and tragedy, this finely wrought and moving novel tells of a life redeemed by the commitment of its protagonist to his métier.

Not a tragedy: though it contains pain and tragedy, this finely wrought and moving novel tells of a life redeemed by the commitment of its protagonist to his métier.

The Green Hat perfectly reflects the atmosphere of the 1920s – the post-war fashion for verbal smartness, youthful cynicism and the spirit of rebellion of the ‘bright young things’ of Mayfair.

An Error of Judgement is a strange and disturbing story of marriage and moral dilemma.Olivia Laing's review of An Error of Judgement in The Guardian, 1st March 2008

 This new selection reflects de Maupassant’s remarkable diversity, with stories that vary in theme and tone, ranging from tragedy and satire to comedy and farce.
A BBC radio programme celebrating the life and work of Guy de Maupassant

Plain Tales From The Hills was Kipling’s first published volume of fiction. With its concentration of effect, the collection is a landmark in the history of the short story.
Jon Buchan’s essay considering race in the short story.
Image of Kipling’s writing room