Collection: Fiction

When Nikolai Gogol left his Ukrainian village in 1828 to seek his fortune in St Petersburg, he began composing these marvelous stories - tales that combine the wide-eyed imagination of the peasant with the social criticism of the city dweller.

A pandemic called The Sweats is sweeping the globe. London is a city in crisis. Hospitals begin to fill with the dead and dying, but Stevie Flint is convinced that the sudden death of her boyfriend Dr Simon Sharkey was not from natural causes.

With the reluctant blessings of their father, the rector of Kurland St. Mary, Lucy Harrington and her sister Anna leave home for a social season in London. But amidst the whirl of balls and formal dinners, the focus shifts to murder...

A portrait of twin brothers. Waldo is the competent man of reason seeing himself as the superior intellect. Arthur, accepted as a half-wit, is the innocent, God's fool, loving and outgoing in a blundering way. They care for each other through a half century

When a man is found brutally murdered in a monastery, its founder is horrified. Then another brazen killing occurs. Then into this violence steps a steely young woman who has a very specific use for a priest who has gone bad...

Life is falling into place for National Parks ranger Erin Taylor. She has a job she loves and she is falling for her colleague, Simon. Until a woman is murdered. But the victim is not just any woman she is Simon's wife, Hayley...

Prim, an aid-worker in the Sudan, is contacted by her sister back in Australia. She has found some documents concerning their ancestors. As Prim's travels progress, she realises that her life is paralleling the paths taken by her Jewish great-grandmother.

When Mike Noonan's wife dies unexpectedly, the bestselling author suffers from writer's block. He is drawn to his summer home, Sara Laughs. Here, Mike finds the once familiar town in the tyrannical grip of millionaire Max Devore...

Alexander McCall Smith captures the goings on of the residents and visitors at Corduroy Mansions, Pimlico, from nasty Liberal Democrat MP Oedipus Snark to the newest resident, Pimlico Terrier Freddie de la Hay...

Badly injured in an ambush possibly orchestrated by Arkadin, Jason Bourne fakes his death and assumes a new identity while endeavoring to assist another team's investigation into a missile attack that resulted in a passenger plane crash...