Collection: Fiction

Ella Rubenstein is forty and unhappily married when she takes a job as a reader for a literary agent. Her first assignment is to read a novel about the ancient Sufi mystic, Rumi, who was transformed by the whirling dervish into a poet and advocate of love

P. G. Wodehouse brings together some of his oldest friends for a party. Jeeves and Wooster are there, so is Mr Mulliner and the Oldest Member. And also the Drones, Oofy Prosser and Bingo Little ...

The saga of Pilot-Major John Blackthorne, and his integration into the struggles and strife of feudal Japan. Starting with his shipwreck, the novel charts Blackthorne's rise from reviled foreigner up to trusted advisor and eventually, Samurai...

When a gallery owner collides with an offbeat artist, it's the perfect recipe for disaster. But when two hopelessly mismatched people share a love of art, a passion for each other, and a city like Paris, nothing is truly impossible...or is it?...

Charlie Jardim has just trashed his legal career in a spectacular courtroom meltdown, and his girlfriend has finally left him. A charitable colleague slings him a prosecution brief that will take him to the remote coastal town of Dauphin...

Chief Bromden, whom the authorities believe is deaf and dumb, tells the inside story of a mental institution ruled by the formidable 'Big Nurse'. Into this terrifying muted world comes anarchic McMurphy, who wages total war on behalf of his fellow-inmates

One day Ruth wakes thinking a tiger has been in her seaside house. Later, a formidable woman called Frida arrives, looking as if she's blown in from the sea, but in fact she's come to care for Ruth. Frida and the tiger: which of them can Ruth trust?

Jed Walker, ex-CIA, has been chasing down a sinister group code-named Zodiac that the big guns have failed to eradicate. But as Walker follows the trail of bodies, he finds the answers are closer to home than he ever imagined...

Justine Brent, a trained nurse is asked to attend her childhood friend Bessy Westmore, a rich textile mill owner left paralyzed by a riding accident. Bessy begs to be released from a life of pain, and Justine administers a lethal dose of morphine....

At age 4, Thursday chooses her own name. At age 6, she falls in love with her best friend, James, with whom she happily spends all her time. But in the adult world, things are not so simple...