In the dreary suburbs of Paris, the merciless greed of a seemingly respectable woman is unearthed by her long suffering niece, and Maigret discovers the...
Maigret meets his match in the alluring form of Felicie. In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those...
In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had...
Exiled from Paris, Maigret discovers some disturbing secrets in a sleepy coastal town in this new translation, book twenty-two in the new Penguin Maigret series....
Maigret's peaceful retirement in the countryside is disrupted when a relative unwittingly embroils himself in a crime he did not commit and the inspector returns...
Agatha Christie’s first ever murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book...
When Kino, a poor Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana...
",He began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention.", Pride and Prejudice , one of the most famous love stories of all...
'Pray, pray be composed,' cried Elinor, 'and do not betray what you feel to every body present. Perhaps he has not observed you yet.'For Elinor...
A stunning new edition of Edgar Allan Poe's most terrifying stories, with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman Part of the Gothic series -...
'Nowhere could she discover the dens of iniquity about which she had dreamed...'Sparkling, darkly humorous tales of high society, playboys, courtesans, peasants, sex and savagery...
'I could hear the frost crackling outside. Greenish moonbeams shone through windows covered with patterns of ice...'One of the most moving accounts of being a...
'I pity this house, the curse of God is hanging over it' Two lovers must face tyrants, war, riots, plague and famine as they...
'He said that Shamil had ordered Hadji Murat to be taken dead or alive....'Two masterly Russian tales of freedom, fighting and great warriors in the...
'He too began to chase the great pierrot through the corridors of the château...' A novel of desperate yearning and vanished adolescence, the story...
'I slept very comfortably with half a dozen smoke-dried human skulls suspended over my head' The great Victorian scientist's heroic adventures across South-East Asia,...
Tells the story of three generations of the Brangwen family and their struggles with each other and themselves....
'Every step the Scarlet Pimpernel takes on French soil is fraught with danger' The French Terror is raging, and few are safe...
'The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.' Set in an Edwardian London underworld of terrorist bombers, spies, grotesques and fanatics,...
'My guest was lying sprawled on his back. There was a long knife through his heart which skewered him to the floor'Richard Hannay...
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