Literary Fiction

The Agatha Christie Collection is a collection of 11 classic detective novels from the queen of crime fiction. We accompany Hecule Poirot on his first 6 adventures, as well as embark on a journey into the beginning of the Tommy & Tuppence Mysteries and Colonel Race series.

Set in the height of the Second World War, The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series, Confusion, where chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic) ‘They could be like telegrams, or the most...

From the author of The Bright Years, the story of April and Leo, a couple on the brink of collapse. When their house goes up in flames, family secrets and thorny histories emerge as they are forced to decide what is worth salvaging. When April and Leo’s house burns in the middle of the night...

The Second World War has finally ended and so begins a new era of freedom and opportunity for the Cazalet family in Casting Off, the fourth novel in Elizabeth Jane Howard's magnificent Cazalet Chronicles. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic). ‘Somehow, she...

Step into the shadows with three of the most influential works ever written in the horror genre. Essential Horror Classics: Volume One brings together tales of creeping dread, supernatural decay, and psychological terror that continue to haunt readers more than a century after their publication. Together, these enduring classics showcase horror in its many forms—from the cosmic and uncanny to the psychological and gothic—offering an unforgettable journey into the darker corners of the human imagination.

First published in 1876, and since adapted for both stage and screen, Daniel Deronda is George Eliot's last completed novel. Gwendolen Harleth, a beautiful but stubborn young woman, is forced into a loveless marriage proposal with the calculating Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt, a man of few words but several secrets. Despite her mother's plea to help secure the family fortune, Gwendolen flees to a German town where she crosses paths with the titular character, Daniel Deronda.

A beautifully curated collection of profoundly intimate and boundary-pushing writing, The Selected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf showcase some of the literary icon's work at its very best. Both lyrical and impressionistic in style, Woolf's short stories offer a candid insight into her characters' inner lives – their memories, thoughts and desires – cultivating a rich emotional framework from which her different protagonists evolve.

Two intertwined disappearances leave a rural community in shock in the latest gripping Charlie Parker novel from New York Times bestselling author John Connolly. In a darkly brilliant thriller set in Maine’s rural Kennebec River Valley, the body of a young runaway from a “troubled teens”...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In the giddy dawn of flight – when every reckless dreamer fancied himself a conqueror of the air – one supremely confident amateur straps into his beloved homemade machine, the Alauda Magna, and sets out to astonish the world. What follows is a...

Bertie Wooster's life is a beautifully orchestrated disaster. Whether he is fleeing terrifying aunts, becoming entangled in ill-fated schemes, or facing the sudden threat of matrimony, trouble has a way of finding him. Enter Jeeves: the incomparable valet who is always ready to save his master from himself. Inside this complete collection are thirty-three legendary tales of romantic entanglements, country-house chaos, and glorious confusion.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. “A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both...

Short, sometimes sweet and often strange, here are seven great stories by some of the best writers from around the world... Anne Enright Yoko Ogawa David Szalay Nadifa Mohamed Andrey Kurkov Yael van der Wouden and Roddy Doyle The Booker Prizes celebrate the world’s best fiction. In this book...

« L'une des plus grandes romancières de notre époque. » Delia Owens, autrice du best-seller Là où chantent les écrevisses Jolene et Michael Zarkades sont mariés depuis douze ans. Comme beaucoup de couples, ils doivent affronter la réalité du quotidien – gérer leurs enfants, leurs carrières et leur vie domestique. Alors que leur mariage est en train de s'effondrer, Jolene, pilote dans l'armée de l'air, apprend qu'elle va être déployée en Irak. Les adieux sont déchirants, mais en tant que militaire, Jolene connaît son devoir.

Dominic Salt et ses trois enfants sont les gardiens de Shearwater, une île perdue au milieu de l’océan Austral. Abritant la plus grande banque de graines au monde, le site accueillait jusqu’à il y a peu de nombreux chercheurs que la montée des eaux a contraints à partir. C’est aux Salt, désormais seuls sous la menace inexorable des élé-ments, qu’il revient de choisir les semences qui seront sauvées et dont l’avenir de l’humanité pourrait bien dépendre. Un soir de tempête, une femme s’échoue sur le rivage, miraculeusement en vie.

Eine Lawine aus Schlamm und Dreck. Es ist dunkel und kalt in Shetland. Seit Monaten regnet es. Auf dem Weg ins Tal reißt das Wasser gewaltige Erdmassen mit sich, die Teile des kleinen Örtchens Ravenswick unter sich begraben. Bei den Aufräumarbeiten findet man in den Trümmern eines Hauses die Leiche einer unbekannten Frau in blutrotem Seidenkleid. Kommissar Jimmy Perez will wissen, wer sie ist – doch stößt er bei den Inselbewohnern auf eine Mauer des Schweigens. Als sich herausstellt, dass die Frau ermordet wurde, ruft Perez seine alte Kollegin Willow Reeves aus Inverness zur Hilfe.

A single choice can reveal the true nature of a soul. In Markheim, Robert Louis Stevenson delivers a haunting psychological tale of guilt, temptation, morality, and redemption. Set on a dark Christmas Day, the story follows Markheim, a man whose desperate actions lead him into a chilling...

La nationale 50 coupe droit à travers le désert du Nevada, sous un soleil écrasant. On n'y entend que le jappement lointain des coyotes. C'est là qu'un flic étrange, un colosse aux méthodes très particulières, arrête des voyageurs sous des prétextes vagues, puis les oblige à le suivre à la ville voisine : Désolation. Et le cauchemar commence… Ce thriller éprouvant, au goût d'apocalypse, nous entraîne plus loin que jamais dans la lutte éternelle du Bien et du Mal.

"The Oval Portrait" is a horror short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, involving the disturbing circumstances of a portrait in a château. It is one of his shortest stories, filling only two pages in its initial publication in 1842. The tale begins with an injured narrator seeking refuge in an abandoned mansion in the Apennines. The narrator spends his time admiring the paintings that decorate the strangely shaped room and reading through a reference book, found on a pillow, that describes them.

"The Gold-Bug" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe published in 1843. The plot follows William Legrand, who becomes fixated on an unusual gold-colored bug he has discovered. His servant Jupiter fears that Legrand is going insane and goes to Legrand's friend, an unnamed narrator, who agrees to visit his old friend. Legrand pulls the other two into an adventure after deciphering a secret message that will lead to buried treasure.

Pencarrow Bay has one more heart to fix after Gen is left picking up the pieces following her traumatic break up. Just as she starts to heal, the last thing she expects is to be swept off her feet by a dashing Dutchman who sales into the bay. He’s the perfect distraction and their days...

I have the honor of sending you, for your magazine, an article which I hope you will be able to comprehend rather more distinctly than I do myself. It is a translation, by my friend, Martin Van Buren Mavis, (sometimes called the "Toughkeepsie Seer,") of an odd-looking MS. which I found, about a year ago, tightly corked up in a jug floating in the Mare Tenebrarum — a sea well described by the Nubian geographer, but seldom visited now-a-days, except by the transcendentalists and divers for crotchets.

"The Duc de L'Omelette" is a humorous short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier on March 3, 1832, and was subsequently revised a number of times by the author. The Duc de L'Omelette dies while dining on an ortolan and finds himself in hell: an apartment filled with various works of art that has a window overlooking a fiery landscape. Face to face with Satan, the Duc manages to avoid damnation by cheating him at a game of cards.

When the taste of a tea-soaked madeleine sends the narrator spiraling into recollections of his childhood in Combray, everyday life becomes something stranger and more profound: a landscape shaped by obsession, longing, social performance, and the fragile architecture of time itself. From sleepless nights and first loves to aristocratic salons glittering with vanity and wit, Swann's Way transforms ordinary experience into a hypnotic meditation on what it means to remember — and to live.

Father Brown, a modest, mild-mannered priest with a sharp intellect and even sharper sense of the human condition, is thrown into a series of mysteries which often baffle both his peers and the authorities. Despite his humble appearance, Father Brown can easily detect falsehoods, see through disguises and defy tampered logic to get to the truth. From cases of theft, fraud and murders with no apparent weapon, Brown remains calm in the face of evil time and time again, utilising compassion, empathy and keen intuition.

David Kirke’s childhood is sheltered, his nature is gentle and peaceable; he is no hero of romance but a human being with faults and failings which lead him into trouble when he adventures into the world to seek his fortune. In the background of the story are the hills of home and the noise and bustle of London; in the foreground are the people, alive, vigorous and full of personality, who play their parts in the shaping of David’s life.