Collection: Fiction

This is a compendium of Poe's tales of mystery and intrigue featuring his ground-breaking detective Auguste Dupin, and complemented by a selection of his greatest-ever tales of the weird and fantastic

Nurse Millie Sullivan is now Nurse Millie Smith, having married aspiring MP Jim Smith. The war has ended and the NHS has just come into action. She's having enough drama at home without her ex-fiance Alex Nolan arriving in town.

The Homicide team, which includes Detective Joe Sable and Constable Helen Lord, is trying to track down a dangerous man named George Starling. At the same time, they are called to investigate a double murder in the fishing village of Port Fairy...

As a lonely child, Alice invented a friend. Sam was always there when she needed him, until one day - he wasn't. Now, Alice's life almost resembles something happy, normal. But when a tragic accident shatters her world, Sam returns...

When Iola Anne Poole, an old-timer on Hatteras Island, passes away in her bed at ninety-one, the struggling young mother in her rental cottage, Tandi Jo Reese, finds herself charged with the task of cleaning out Iola's rambling Victorian house.

Cujo is a huge Saint Bernard dog, the best friend Brett Camber has ever had. Then one day Cujo chases a rabbit into a cave inhabited by rabid bats. And Cujo falls sick and becomes a vortex of horror inexorably drawing in all the people around him.

When Jahan travels to 16th-century Istanbul as a stowaway carrying the gift of a white elephant for the sultan, little does he know the journey on which he is about to embark. In the palace gardens he meets Mihrimah and loses his heart in an instant...

A 16-year old American boy relates in his own words the experiences he goes through at school and after, and reveals with unusual candour the workings of his own mind. What does a boy in his teens think and feel...

A fictional memoir illuminating Aaron Burr's life and times, highlighting his political accomplishments and fatal duel with Alexander Hamilton.

1400s. Brutality and corruption exist nowhere more than in Rome and inside the Church. When Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia buys his way into the papacy as Alexander VI, he is defined not just by his wealth, but by his blood: A Spanish Pope in an Italian city