Fiction

Fiction

Great literature can range from a fiendishly complex murder mystery that keeps us up all night, to a novel which moves us to tears whenever we think of it. Here you will find the great classics alongside satisfying good reads, hidden gems and favourites from childhood.

American Fiction - browse category

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Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut
Kurt Vonnegut's black satiric voice exposes the cruelties and aberrations of the human condition in a book that ... more
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To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee
Tomboy Scout and her older brother Jem tell thrilling stories about local bogeyman, Boo Radley, but when their ... more
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British & Irish Fiction - browse category

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Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson
By day Billy Bones stalks the cliffs over Bristol, surveying the horizon with a brass telescope; by night he haunts ... more
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Clea

Lawrence Durrell
Clea brings the Quartet to a haunting close, as Darley returns to Alexandria to make amends and attempts to find ... more
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Children's Fiction & Fairy Tales - browse category

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Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe
In this ultimate story of shipwreck and survival, Defoe describes Robinson Crusoe's trials and ingenious solutions ... more
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Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales

Hans Christian Andersen
Hans Christian Andersen's 17 most famous tales, including 'The Emperor's New Clothes', 'The Little Mermaid', 'The ... more
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Classic Fiction - browse category

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Great Expectations

Charles Dickens
In one of Dickens's best-loved and most enduring novels, written in 1860-1 at the height of his powers, the hero ... more
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The Shooting Party

Anton Chekhov
When a 'piercing, heartrending' scream rings out across the grounds of a Russian country estate, it brings to a ... more
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Comic Fiction - browse category

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The Best of Saki

Saki
Cats who learn to talk (to the discomfiture of their owners), bad-tempered aunts who get stuck in water tanks and ... more
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Catch-22

Joseph Heller
Terry Gilliam’s Desert Island Companion
Captain Yossarian is a rebel with a cause: to ... more
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Crime, Mystery & Espionage - browse category

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The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction

The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction encompasses some of the finest writing in the genre, from the Victorian ... more
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John le Carré
With this tale of treachery and conflicted loyalties, le Carré transcends the spy genre, creating a novel that ... more
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Modern Fiction - browse category

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Trouble is My Business and other stories

Raymond Chandler
The mood is dark, the atmosphere electric, the voice unmistakable - in his stiletto-sharp thrillers, Raymond ... more
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The Riddle of the Sands

Erskine Childers
Erskine Childers’ only novel, The Riddle of the Sands, was a sensation when first published and a major ... more
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Sci-Fi, Ghost Stories, Macabre - browse category

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Don't Look Now and Other Stories

Daphne du Maurier
It was in her shorter prose that Daphne du Maurier allowed a free rein to her remarkable imagination and no reader ... more
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The Collected Stories of Gogol

Nikolai Gogol
The 13 stories collected here are as varied as the characters that inhabit them, but all share a liveliness and ... more
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Short Stories - browse category

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The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction

The Folio Treasury of Shorter Crime Fiction encompasses some of the finest writing in the genre, from the Victorian ... more
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The Body-Snatcher and Other Stories

Robert Louis Stevenson
Stevenson was a ruthless refiner of his stories - 'I am always cutting the flesh off their bones' - and his mastery ... more
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World Fiction - browse category

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Lost Illusions

Honoré de Balzac
Lost Illusions is the story of a handsome and somewhat vain would-be poet, Lucien Chardon, whose ambition takes him ... more
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The Mandarins

Simone de Beauvoir
In her most famous novel, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end ... more
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