Fiction

Charley Benetto is a broken man, his life destroyed by alcohol & regret; when he decides to end his own life, something curious happens - he meets his mother, dead for eight years,... more information

Playing for the highest stakes of all...In the 1960s, four ambitious new MPs take their seats at Westminster. Over three decades they share the turbulent passions of the race for p... more information

A masterly evocation of the last years of Dr Johnson, arguably Britain's greatest Man of Letters. The time is the 1770s & 1780s & Johnson, having completed his life's major work (h... more information

Hisako Onoda, world famous cellist, refuses to fly. And so she travels to Europe as a passenger on a tanker bound through the Panama Canal. But Panama is a country whose politics a... more information

Betjeman, appointed Poet Laureate in 1972, is celebrated as the best loved poet of the twentieth century. His subtle blend of wit & melancholia, affection & criticism continues to ... more information

This intensely spiritual work forms the cornerstone of the Hindu faith, and is also one of the masterpieces of Sanskrit poetry. It describes how, at the beginning of a mighty battl... more information

The Italian evening class at Mountainview School is like hundreds of others starting up all over city. But this class has its own special quality - as the focus for the varied hope... more information

In a Greek taverna, high over the small village of Aghia Anna, four people meet for the first time: Fiona, an Irish nurse, Thomas, a Californian academic; Elsa, a German television... more information

Quentins restaurant in Dublin has many stories to tell - Ella Brady wants to make a documentary about the place, but when she uncovers what has really gone on there, she's forced t... more information

Ria & Marilyn have never met, but a chance phone call leads them to swap houses for the summer. Ria goes to America in the hope that the change will give her the courage to sort ou... more information

Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. ... more information

Struggling manufacturer Robert Moore has introduced labour saving machinery to his Yorkshire mill, arousing a ferment of unemployment and discontent among his workers. Robert consi... more information

First published in 1848, a novel in which a woman flees from a disastrous marriage with her child to a desolate moorland mansion. It portrays one woman's struggle for independence ... more information

When world-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a mysterious symbol -- seared into the chest of a murdered physicist -- h... more information

When a new NASA satellite detects evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory, a victory th... more information

When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine - encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls in its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautifu... more information

Richard Hannay's ennui comes to an abrupt end when a murder is committed in his flat. Only a few days before the dead man had revealed to him an assassination plot which would have... more information

One spring day, 30 pilgrims set off from an inn in Southwark for a shrine in Canterbury. The inn keeper offers a free dinner, on their return, to the person who can tell the best s... more information

London 1792. The Kellaways move from familiar rural Dorset to the tumult of a cramped, unforgiving city. They are leaving behind a terrible loss, a blow that only a new life may so... more information

Recently, there had been some strange goings on at Styles St Mary. Evelyn, companion to old Mrs Inglethorp, had stormed out of the house muttering something about 'a lot of sharks'... more information