Collection: Fiction

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.

Alec Leamas is tired. It's the 1960s, he has been out in the cold for years, spying in Berlin for his British masters, and has seen too many good agents murdered for their troubles. Now Control wants to bring him in but only after one final assignment.

After five years in an Alpiran dungeon, Vaelin Al Sorna just wants to go home. Reva intends to welcome Vaelin back with a knife between the ribs. He destroyed her family and ruined her life. Nothing will stop her from exacting bloody vengeance

The story of Fanny Price, a poor relation and a loner, and her upbringing at Mansfield Park, the magnificent country residence of her uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram and his family ...