Collection: Fiction

Hilary Mantel delivers a collection of ten contemporary short stories that demonstrate what modern England has become. She writes about gender, marriage, class, family and sex, cutting to the core of human experience...

1938: three girls from different backgrounds find themselves competing for showgirl roles at the exclusive San Francisco Oriental nightclub, the Forbidden City. Then everything changes in a heartbeat with the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Ira is stranded after a car crash. Sophia sees new life in front of her. Lonely ninety-one year old Ira Levinson and college student Sophia Danko's lives are about to converge in the most unexpected - and shocking - ways of all.

An illustrated editon of favourite stories by Henry Lawson for the whole family to enjoy.

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent devourer of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance...

Mitchell's novel weaves history, science, suspense, humor and pathos through six separate but loosely related narratives. Each of the narratives is set in a different time and place, each is written in a different prose and style....

Miranda Wood thought she had seen the last of Richard Tremain, her rich and married ex-lover - until she discovered him stabbed to death in her bed. With her knife. With her world falling around her, Miranda is determined to clear her name...

Rosie's mother is a cruel woman and has Rosie's kind and loving father wrapped around her finger. Though John Tanner does his best to protect her, Rosie often bears the brunt of her mother's rage. And his protection can't last forever...

Banned in India before publication, this immense novel by Booker Prize-winner Rushdie ( Midnight's Children ) pits Good against Evil in a whimsical and fantastic tale.

A story of revolutionaries set in Swizerland and Russia. Conrad's intention was to render not so much the political but the psychological state of Russia in 1911...