Collection: Fiction

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...

Aaron Sisson is a coal miner who abandons his wife and children and, with nothing but a flute and a little money, sets out in search of a life of greater personal integrity. His pilgrimage of self-discovery takes him to London, and later to Florence.

Mackenzie's daughter, Missy has been abducted during a family vacation. Evidence that she may have been murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Mack receives a note, apparently from God, inviting him back to the shack...