Collection: Fiction

When Cordelia Kane's father reveals the shocking truth about her mother, Cordelia can't suppress her curiosity and when she discovers the answers to her questions lie in Sydney, Australia, she travels there to get them.

For most of her life Mary Bennet has been an object of ridicule. With a notable absence of the social graces, she has been an embarrassment to her family on more than one occasion. But lately, Mary has changed...

Follows dwarf king Bruenor Battlehammer and his violent feud with the orc kingdom of Many Arrows, as they seek to take advantage of the Sundering chaos.

Brighton, 1951. Pantomime season is in full swing on the pier, but the headlines have been stolen by the disappearance of two children. When they are found dead in the snow, surrounded by sweets, the press nickname them 'Hansel and Gretel'

Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. But when Laurent disappears, former Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true...

Working as a companion for the rich and overbearing Mrs Van Hopper in the south of France, Duphne Du Maurier's young heroine meets the charming and chivalrous Maxim De Winter. After a whirlwind romance, and despite her youth, they marry...

Released from jail, clean and sober for the first time since childhood, Kaz Phelps dreams of putting her abusive family and her criminal past behind her. But her little brother Joey, a psychopathic gangster, wants her back in the family firm...

Subject: It is time to decide who will rule the lands and control the magic. Will it be Forland, with its lust for bloody conquest? Will it be Dokuzen, with its dreams of a slave empire, or will it be Vales, armed only with Rhiannon and her magic?

The Vagrant is his name. He has no other. Years have passed since humanity's destruction emerged from the Breach. Friendless and alone he walks across a desolate, war-torn landscape. As each day passes the world tumbles further into depravity...

The Aspern Papers, the tale of a literary historian determined to get is hands on some letters. The Turn of the Screw tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Both works show James's mastery of the short story...