Collection: Fiction

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

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.