Part of Alma Classics new series: 101 Pages, The Duel is an autobiographical novel which describes Casanova's extraordinary battle to the death with a Polish Count

The death of his beloved wife leaves the Duke of Omnium, former Primer Minister, struggling to impose his will on his three children: in debt, and in love with unsuitable marriage partners, they seek to go their own way, and the novel explores family conflict, principle, and the conquering power of love. The last in the superb Palliser series.

Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium and former Prime Minister of England, is widowed and wracked by grief. Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora, he works hard to guide and support his three adult children. Palliser soon discovers, however, that his own plans for them are very different from their desires...

The Duke's Children is a novel about sorrow and loss, and about a parent s pained discovery that our children inevitably grow to love us less than we love them.

DUNE is the bestselling science fiction novel of all time, with nearly ten million copies in print. This all-new edition of Dune features wholly reset text and an incredible new cover.

The bestselling science fiction novel of all time, with nearly ten million copies in print.

The most famous, widely acclaimed and popular of all sf novels NAMED ONE OF THE BBC's 100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD 'An astonishing science fiction phenomenon' WASHINGTON POST

The story begun in Frank Herbert's classic novel Dune continues with Dune Messiah, an extraordinary novel about the price of victory and the cost of war.

The most famous, widely acclaimed and popular of all science fiction novels, named one of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World, and the inspiration behind the jaw-dropping cinematic adaptations Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two.

The recent TV award winning adaption The Durrells left its fans with questions: What happened to the family - and what took them to Corfu in the first place? This book has the answers

A powerful, captivating tale of family secrets and hidden heartache from an internationally acclaimed author

DUSTY ANSWER, Rosamond Lehmann's first novel, was published to sensational acclaim in 1927 and became a landmark book of the inter-war period, shocking in its time, capturing the voice of the younger generation.

Matchmaking is no easy job. Particularly when you're trying to find a girl for your dull, balding, freshly-divorced cousin, shop for contraband Prada goods and attend parties every night. Not to mention that your husband's work trips are increasingly frequent, your city is under attack, and your friends can't be trusted - how is a girl to cope?

Harold Pinter's first and only novel, written in the early 1950s before he began writing plays. The novel is set in post-war London's East End, a landscape of bomb-sites, and describes the lives of four young Londoners whose energy and humour lift them above the routine austerity of the time.

David Kepesh, white-haired, and now in his sixties, is a formidable lecturer at a New York college. For years he's been casually, almost habitually, sleeping with the more spirited of his female students, though with an aesthete's critical distance. But now he's met Consuela Castillo, a twenty-four-year-old Cuban student....

Tom Thorne returns in a breathtakingly gripping new case

A historical novel set in mid-sixteenth century England

Britannia, AD 44. Centurions Macro and Cato (the latter newly promoted) face trouble on two fronts - from the rebellious tribes, and from a deadly plot directly targetting the two soldiers. The powerful fourth novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series, which includes BRITANNIA, THE GLADIATOR and CENTURION.

AD 44, Britannia. A devastating defeat leaves the men of Rome's Second Legion with an impossible decision. The epic fifth novel in Simon Scarrow's bestselling Eagles of the Empire series, which includes UNDER THE EAGLE, CENTURION and INVICTUS.

AD 45, the Adriatic Sea. Centurions Macro and Cato embark on a deadly mission to rescue an imperial agent from pirates. The gripping sixth novel in the bestselling Eagles of the Empire series, which includes INVICTUS, BRITANNIA and THE BLOOD CROWS.