Collection: Fiction

'The Canterville Ghost', in which a young American girl helps to free the tormented spirit that haunts an old English castle.

A bitter love triangle, a mysterious inheritance, and power of money motivates, frustrates and activates the characters to a bitter end. Our Mutual Friend is a witty indictment of a society fallen prey to the dawning age of commercialism...

Malcolm McEacharn is the man who brings joy to early Sydney in the form of an iceberg. He brings electricity to Melbourne and becomes its Lord Mayor - but he is driven by an obsession that threatens to destroy him and his world....

A chance encounter leads to the journey of a lifetim... One moment in time can change your life forever... Ben's always loved the month of December, but with his marriage to Daphne on the rocks, this year it's missing its usual magic. So when his old flame Alice gets back in touch, Ben can't hel...

After concert violinist Caroline Waverly breaks up with her conductor and lover Luis, she escapes to her late grandmother's home in Innocence, Mississippi. But instead of tranquility, she finds the town torn with suspicion over two brutal murders.

The more startling for the economy of its prose and plot, this novel's story, set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori.

This book includes thirteen short stories published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Esquire, together with the entire Pat Hobby series - seventeen stories about an aging screenwriter scrambling to make a living in Hollywood during the 1930s.

Catherine Coombs, Cat, has finally come to the end of herself. She wants to make amends to those she has hurt. Her quest takes her to Nantucket, where the women she once called family still live. Despite her sins, will they welcome her again?

Dickens' third novel, published in 1839, was a vivid and powerful protest against cruelty to children, and the descriptions of Mr Squeers and his wicked boarding school were to be instrumental in securing educational reform in the early Victorian period.