Collection: Fiction

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

This is a fascinating short story collection with a difference and uniquely it shows a very personal side of Tolstoy's work, as well as setting his fiction against the backdrop of Russian history.

The dark tower beckons Roland, the last gunslinger, and the four companions he has gathered along the road. In a terrifying journey where hidden dangers lie at every junction - a runaway train, Roland's staunch enemy and the wizard's glass ball...

Stephen King introduces each of these short stories with a passage about its origins or his motivations for writing it. There are connections between stories -- themes of morality, the afterlife, guilt, what we would do differently if we could see into the future or correct the mistakes of the pa...

Marine biologist Julianne Maroney comes to tiny Declan's Cross on the south Irish coast to heal her broken heart. She doesn't expect to attract the attention of FBI agents Emma Sharpe and Colin Donovan who are investigating an old art theft case...

Sam Spade is hired by Miss Wonderley to track down her sister who has eloped with a louse called Floyd Thursday. But Miss Wonderley is in fact the beautiful and treacherous Brigid O'Shaughnessy, Spade finds himself both hunter and hunted

While they could not be more different, Beth and Megan have a genuine friendship built on years of laugher, tears and true understanding of each other's strengths and weaknesses. But when Beth's daughter reveals a secret, a wedge is driven between them.

Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire in the harmattan. But, when he accidently kills a clansman things begin to fall apart.

An immediate worldwide bestseller wnen it was first published in 1948. This is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and apeople riven by racial injustice.

The tale of a crumbling relationship told from a child's eye view. After her parent's bitter divorce, young Maisie finds herself shuttled between her mother Ida and her father Beale Farange, who value her only as a means for provoking each other.