Collection: Adult fiction

This adventure story begins as Crusoe leaves the English coast for Africa and finds himself the sole survivor of a shipwreck. On a desert island, he finds another human footprint on the shore, encounters cannibals, and befriends a native.

Brothers Tony, Sean and Ned had the perfect upbringing. They adore their parents and actually look forward to coming home for Sunday lunch. But now they're grown up, real life is starting to get in the way. Mass market edition.

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Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang, to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-bat- tle ship Royal William. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all that he goes through in danger of ...

In a novel which has lost none of its power to disturb and entertain, the leading light of Victorian 'sensation' fiction, draws on contemporary theories of insanity to probe Victorian anxieties about the rapid rise of consumer culture.

In New Mexico an old man begins a journey that can only end in death. For thirty years Samuel Jones has lived as an Apache, severing all ties with his family. Now his daughter needs him to ride against the Indians and recapture his lost granddaughter.

At the age of 32, Harriet Swift thinks she has the perfect life. But when her only sister is killed in a car crash, Harriet is forced to move back to her childhood home to help look after her orphaned niece and nephew. Before long Harriet discovers things about her family and herself she never be...

The 33 tales in this collection are set in the Paris of society women, prostitutes and small-minded bourgeoisie, as well as the isolated Normandy villages the author knew as a child. They focus on the relationships between men and women, brothers and sisters, and masters and servants.

Set in the 1850s when rail travel took off, this title, written by Edward Marston, also chronicles the new crimes it inspired.

Working in New York one hot summer, Esther Greenwood is on the brink of her future. Yet she is also on the edge of a darkness that makes her word increasingly unreal. In this vivid and unforgettable novel, Esther's vision of the world shimmers and shifts: day-to-day New York living, her crazed ...