This work takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy through to the massive advances of technology and industrialisation during the Victoria...

Set in the rural midlands of England, 'The Rainbow' revolves around three generations of Brangwens, a family deeply involved with the land and noted for their strength and vigour. When Tom...

John Harmon, in exile for many years, discovers that by a curious quirk in his father’s will he must marry Bella Wilfer, a girl he has never met, in order to claim his inheritance. Mistakenly...

This is a book about the beauty and complexity of the human soul, about God, love, and justice, and yet you can lose yourself in it as if it were a dream. You will be transported to New York of...

A movie starring Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, and Michael Fassbender! In 1907 Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung began what promised to be both a momentous collaboration and the deepest...

On a mild autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. When the creak of the garden gate heralds the arrival of an unexpected...

In 1965, the dogged Lieutenant Carmine Delmonico is assigned to solve what appears to be a single murder. Part of a young woman's body has turned up at one of the world's leading neurological...

Agatha Christie's greatest sleuth in fourteen of his greatest cases, including Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, and Evil Under the Sun. Drawn from Christie dramas...

Brutus and Cassius are dead at Philippi, leaving two men to inherit the world. One is twenty-year-old Octavian, whose brilliance, subtlety and political cunning give the lie to his small, sickly...

A passionate but ultimately tragic love affair starts when two students - one French, one English - meet at university at the beginning of the sixties. From its tentative, unpromising early...

‘Like all fathers,’ said Dickens, ‘I have a favourite child, and his name is David Copperfield.’ He is the favourite, too, of many listeners.

The story follows the trials and...

When Trollope returned to England in 1872, after a long visit to Australia, he was horrified by the immorality and dishonesty he found. In a fever of indignation he wrote 'The Way We Live Now',...

Plantaganet Palliser, Prime Minister of England - a man of power and prestige, with all the breeding and inherited wealth that goes with it - is appalled at the inexorable rise of Ferdinand Lopez....

Dave Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home...

Claiming God commanded her to gruesomely murder her three small children, a radical political science professor with a high-profile politician husband pleads insanity, leaving New York District...