The first in the Chronicles of Barsetshire series, The Warden is both a humorous satire of the Church of England and a poignant insight into the manner in which public matters impact private lives.

Christmas is around the corner...so too are all manner of spooky apparitions at the Essex Witch Museum

A modern fable about one man's search for visibility on an enchanted island.

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre has gripped readers since its 1847 publication. Thousands of readers since then have been drawn by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion.

A magical, charming and deeply moving fable about love, family, war and resilience from the Costa Prize-winning author of Day

The most celebrated horror story ever written. The dreadful tale of Victor Frankenstein, a visionary young student of natural philosophy, who discovers the secret of life. In the grip of his obsession he constructs and animates a creature from dead body parts - with catastrophic results.

In this haunting illustration of the treatment of mental health and chilling Gothic tale, a woman is confined to a room and forbidden to do anything interesting, and loses her mind. In 1887, following a nervous breakdown, Gilman had been sent to a leading neurologist, she explains in 'Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper', also included in this volume.

Part of Alma Classics Evergreens series, this edition of The Woman in White includes pictures and an extensive section on Collins's life and works.

Presented here with extra material about the author's life and works, notes and bibliographic information, The Mill on the Floss is one of literature's finest evocations of childhood and adolescence.

One of Virginia Woolf's most famous novels, Mrs Dalloway is a triumph of experimentation, a cornerstone of Modernism and a subtle examination of love, freedom, mental illness and the female condition in society.

Unfinished. Man Dying. A great painter lies on his deathbed. Max Porter translates into seven extraordinary written pictures the explosive final workings of the artist's mind.

Arianwyn is recruited for an important mission: to retrieve the Book of Quiet Glyphs from its hiding place in the Great Wood. But as feyling refugees gather outside the town walls and hex plagues the forest, tensions lead to fall-outs with her friends. Arianwyn soon realises that she alone can find the Book, and wield its secrets ...

A collection of short stories featuring characters who are wound up as tightly as a drum, full of anxiety, thwarted compassion and frustrated desire. James Kelman won the 1994 Booker Prize for "How Late it Was, How Late".

Eagerly awaited third novel from author of the bestselling Lempriere's Dictionary and The Pope's Rhinoceros

This title provides a stitch-up of the world of television soaps.

'A poetic meditation on exile and return, but also a love story and a political thriller' Guardian

Alfie's not really a bad guy. It's just that he has this overwhelming desire for the ladies. You might say that "birds" are irresistible to him, sort of second nature. There's Ruby, Clare, Siddie, Carla, and Annie - but who's counting? Certainly not Alfie.

A Gothic fairy tale set in eighteenth century Mississippi...the South, especially Miss Welty's, is entirely its own thing' Angus Wilson A fable from one of the best loved classic writers of the American South

Ireland was too small for Ginger Coffey. No matter how hard he tried to get on, he just ended up as a glorified errand boy. That was why he emigrated to Canada with his wife and daughter. But even there his manifold talents were slow to be recognized. By the author of "The Colour of Blood".