Collection: Fiction

Louis Charles Lynch, aka Lucy, is 60 years old and has lived in Thomaston, upstate New York, his entire life, married to the same woman, Sarah, for 40 years. Like his own father, a determined optimist, Lucy has had plenty of reasons not to be but has withstood them all, including his mother, stil...

Elizabethan England, and a dastardly Spanish plot to take over the throne is uncovered. It's up to Agent Archie Noble to save Queen and country in this saucy and swashbuckling romp from the bestselling author of 'The Flashman Papers' and 'The Pyrates'.

'Old Men in Love' constitutes the posthumous papers of a recondite - yet venal - retired Glaswegian schoolmaster, named John Tunnock.

This moving first novel is a saga of a Sri Lankan family's search for coherence and continuity in a country broken by colonial occupation and riven by ethnic wars.

Miss Read's wonderfully festive collection of Christmas stories is packed with entertaining characters and enchanting tales.

Robert Cecil, secretary of state to James I, has a problem: he owes a vast debt to the Prince of La Spada and he cannot pay. Even worse, he has staked as security the King's Great Pearl - without seeking royal approval. But to Cecil's suprise, La Spada agrees to a hostage deal.

Sweeping from the stiff feathers and frocks of London in the 1880s, to the end of the roaring 20s, this series is an addictive story of the triumphs and sorrows of the Forsytes, a family both fiercely loyal and heartbreakingly divided.

Lady Chatterley's adulterous liaison with the gamekeeper Oliver Mellors makes for a profound meditation on the human condition. Lawrence's work is presented here in the second version, written in 1927, but never published in his lifetime. This edition includes extra material on Lawrence's life an...