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Now available:

March 2008

The Green Hat
An Error of Judgement
On Horseback and Other Stories
Plain Tales from the Hills
June 2008

The Dark Flower
The Napoleon of Notting Hill
Dracula
The Man Who Knew Everything
July 2008

The Hound of the Baskervilles
Messer Marco Polo
Green Dolphin Country
The Incredulity of Father Brown
October 2008

Juan in America
How I Became a Holy Mother
The Hireling
Kidnapped
Forthcoming from:

January 2009

The Voyage
Mr Perrin and Mr Traill
The Conclave
Love in a Wych Elm & Other Stories
Tales of Sexual Desire
March 2009

South Wind
Potiki
Silas Marner
Two People
May 2009

Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal
Cashel Byron's Profession
You Shall Know Them
My Name is Aram
July 2009

Shirley's Guild
Incandescence
Highland Fling
October 2009

The Dupin Mysteries
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Now available:

March 2008

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
June 2008

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.
July 2008

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