Collection: Fiction

A new translation of Dostoevsky's epic masterpiece, Crime and Punishment (1866). The impoverished student Raskolnikov decides to free himself from debt by killing an old moneylender, an act he sees as elevating himself above conventional morality. Like Napoleon he will assert his will and his cri...

Jude Farraday is a happily married, stay-at-home mom who puts everyone's needs above her own. Her twins, Mia and Zach, are bright and happy teenagers. When Lexi Baill enters their lives, no one realises the tragedy that will unfold.

As children, Dick and Maisie were both under the cruel and repressive care of Mrs Jennet, where, even as a child, Maisie treats Dick with indifference. Dick later becomes a successful artist through his war-time illustrations of the Sudan campaign.

As a young boy in Ithaca, Odysseus listens in wonder to his grandfather Autolykos. He learns of his heritage and a lifelong passion is sparked: to become an adventurer and warrior. In Mycenae, he meets King Eurystheus and learns the story of Hercules

Chronicles three generations of Clearys, ranchers carving lives from a beautiful, hard land. It is the story of only daughter Meggie and her lifelong relationship with the haunted priest Father Ralph de Bricassart - that dangerously oversteps boundaries

Charles Strickland, a conventional stockbroker abandons his wife and children for Paris and Tahiti, to live his life as a painter. His decision leads to an obsession which carries severe implications.

Scientist, Victor Frankenstein, learns how to create life and creates a being in the likeness of man, but larger than average and more powerful.

Anna Karenina is the wife of a Russian government official. She leads a correct but confining upper-middle-class existence. She seems content with her life as a proper companion to her dignified, unaffectionate husband, until she meets Count Vronsky

The classic story of an English sailor marooned on a desert island for nearly thirty years.

As thick snow blankets Newcastle, boisterous crowds of Christmas revellers jostle onto the Metro. And Margaret Krukowski - sitting quietly in the middle of the busy train - is viciously murdered, though nobody sees the stabbing take place. Margaret's murderer is seemingly invisible; her killing m...