Collection: Fiction

Queen Victoria, still mourning her long-dead husband Prince Albert, has found solace in John Brown, an enigmatic palace servant who dabbles in the occult and keeps the grieving queen entertained with his tarot card readings...

The Rider has no memory of who he is, or how he came to be lying in the heat of the North African desert. Rescued by a band of deserters, the Rider begins to piece together his identity, based on shards of recollection and the letters in his post bag

A band of psychologists, under the leadership of psychohistorian Hari Seldon, plants a colony to encourage art, science and technology in the declining Galactic Empire and to preserve the accumulated knowledge of humankind.

St Anton's university college is a cradle for privileged young men and women. It seems like a place where nothing bad could ever happen. Until one weekend, when members of the cricket team go to the mountains for a wild weekend away...

A collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed. Du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination.

Meet John Lago: hitman, film fan, dangerously in love. The object of his affection is Alice, who also happens to be John's nemesis, a fellow killer, and now the wife he never knew he wanted. Together, they aim to take over John's former employers...

Following the death of her beloved husband Phil, Angie has made a new life for herself in the enchanting gold rush town of Millbrooke. She's even fallen for the erudite but scruffy Richard Scott, owner of Millerbrooke House.

1875, Sisi, the Empress of Austria has everything - except happiness. Bored with the Hapsburg Court and her unexciting husband, Franz Joseph, Sisi comes to England looking for excitement and she finds it in the dashing form of Captain Bay Middleton

Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in the world, but she is h...

Five women meet once a month to talk about books, life and love. Honesty, no matter how brutal, is something they treasure. Best friends tell each other everything, don't they? But each woman carries a complex secret and then everything comes unstuck