Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, originally published in 1837, opens with the death of Louis XV in 1774 and ends in 1795 when Bonaparte quelled the insurrection of the Vendemiaire. It is a work of great narrative and descriptive power that was itself meant to be revolutionary.

Everyone has secrets. But some are more dangerous than others.

When a country life dream turns into a nightmare ...

A new translation of the pop-culture phenomenon that is Battle Royale.

From Victorian England to then-colony India, India Fan centers on Druscilla Delaney, a parson's daughter, in thrall to the wealthy Framling family. Druscilla becomes the reluctant friend to the arrogant Framling daughter, Lucia, who constantly requires rescuing from her own rash decisions.

The new Tom Thorne thriller from No.1 bestselling author Mark Billingham

As he's about to commit a massive act of violence, he finds himself shot back through time to resurface in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, where he sees why 'Hell is Red River, Idaho, in the 1970s'. This book seeks an understanding of why human beings hate.

The sensational 'ripped from the headlines' thriller from Alex Marwood, the Edgar-Award winning author of The Wicked Girls.

This Norton Critical Edition restores the full title to the 1771 novel and emphasises the growing recognition of Smollett as a major British author.

An imprisoned paedophile and child murderer unexpectedly appeals his conviction. In return for a reduced sentence, he offers to implicate those involved in the crimes who were never caught; to provide evidence of Police corruption at the time of the original investigation; and to reveal where the corpses of never found teenage girls are buried.

Opening dramatically with the horrors of the 2005 London bombings, this is the profoundly moving story of a country on the brink of civil war and a child's struggle to come to terms with loss.

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commerical upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 and 1920. This, the only critical edition of Galsworthy's popular masterpiece, contains detailed notes which are vital to the saga, explaining particularly the contemporary artistic and literary allusions, and slang of the time.

A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation

In this new edition the writings of the young Brontes - Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and Branwell - are presented together for the first time in a single volume. The fantasy worlds of Glass Town, Angria, and Gondal, experiments in romance and realism, provided a rich source for their later work and offer an insight into their developing creativity.

Presents a story full of lust, madness, and ecstasy. This book features twelve distinctive characters that lived in the same region of central England over the span of six thousand years. It tells how their narratives are woven together in patterns of recurring events, strange traditions, and uncanny visions.

Jude's life has been turned upside down due to her new man Piers, who's obsessed with Tennis and keen for Jude to get involved. When one of Pier's friends dies on the court in suspicious circumstances, Jude gets caught up in the police investigation. Meanwhile, Carole is trying to identify human remains known locally as the 'Lady of the Lake'.