Collection: Fiction

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...

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself torn between two women - the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia - both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya.

1978, Italy. Enigmatic and cynical, Bravo makes his living catering to the tastes, fantasies and fetishes of the wealthy and depraved. His romance with Carla becomes a nightmare and transforms Bravo into a man wanted by the police and organized crime.

On the last, cold Sunday of February, 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. This is the story of that killing and its repercussions...