Collection: Fiction

The Aspern Papers, the tale of a literary historian determined to get is hands on some letters. The Turn of the Screw tells of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Both works show James's mastery of the short story...

Returning to Russia from a sanitarium in Switzerland, epileptic Prince Myshkin finds himself torn between two women - the notorious kept woman Nastasya and the pure Aglaia - both involved, in turn, with the corrupt, money-hungry Ganya.

1978, Italy. Enigmatic and cynical, Bravo makes his living catering to the tastes, fantasies and fetishes of the wealthy and depraved. His romance with Carla becomes a nightmare and transforms Bravo into a man wanted by the police and organized crime.

On the last, cold Sunday of February, 1859, Daniel Sickles shot his wife's lover in Washington's Lafayette Square, just across from the White House. This is the story of that killing and its repercussions...

Shipwrecked & washed ashore Gulliver wakes to find himself a prisoner of a race of people less than 6 inches tall on the island of Lilliput. In Modest Proposal Swift suggests that the impoverished Irish might ease their troubles by selling their children

This novel's theme is the Zen Buddhist phrase describing the narrow path to enlightenment. The book describes an over-populated, materialistic society in which people increasingly turn inwards to the spiritual life in a search for freedom

It's been years since Lucy Sheridan was in Summer River. The last time she visited her aunt Sara, she'd been dragged out of a wild party by Mason Fletcher. Returning after her aunt's fatal car accident, Lucy learns there's more to the story...

Richard, Carmel and Liesl are an unlikely trio with a complex shared past. They met while working in Rwanda during the genocide. Now the three are back together, united both by a photograph and attempts on their lives...

London 1920. The world is recovering from war and the future looks bright for sculptress, Lulu Pearson. But then she receives a letter from Joe Reilly, a racehorse trainer in Tasmania, informing her she is the owner of a promising yearling, Ocean Child.

Eddie is a wounded war veteran. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He awakens in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination...