Collection: Fiction

On learning of Ivan Ilyich's sudden death, his former colleagues begin vying for promotion. It seems neither in life nor in death has he made any lasting impression. Ilyich's life is revealed as one of futility, of emptiness and of spiritual barrenness

Paul Manning is dismayed to discover that the uncle he must visit in the country is a churchman. Yet far from the oppressively religious household he envisages, Manning is delighted to meet his genial relations, not least, his cousin Phyllis.

A young English orphan, Lois Barclay, arrives in America to be greeted by an atmosphere of shadowy terror and a wave of Puritan suspicion. She settles with her uncle's family in Salem, Massachusetts, on the eve of the world's most notorious witch hunt.

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that these beautiful people are simply re...

It's the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. Slowly, through the gift of music and friendship, she finds a way of starting again.

'Crazy rich asians' is the outrageously funny debut novel about three super-rich, pedigreed Chinese families and the gossip, backbiting, and scheming that occurs when the heir to one of the most massive fortunes in Asia brings home his ABC (American-born Chinese) girlfriend to the wedding of the ...

Charles Parnell Cassidy - he could have been a conman or a cardinal so he became a little of both. The perfect paradigm of an Irish politician, he was a hearty breed of man who went after power and money and got them - every way he could.

The body of a beautiful blonde is found in the library of Gossington Hall. What the young woman was doing in the quiet village of St. Mary Mead is precisely what Jane Marple means to find out. Amid rumors of scandal, Miss Marple baits a clever trap...

Carla Roberts lives alone in the top of a highrise building in Hackney, then she is found brutally murdered. Meanwhile, Samson Segal, an unemployed thirty-something has taken to spying on his neighbours, particularly beautiful Gillian Ward...

In death, as in life, Elizabeth Hunter remains a callous, destructive vivisector of the lives around her, as her son and daughter convene at her deathbed in a Sydney suburb, and her housekeeper, nurses and solicitor dance attendance...