Collection: Adult fiction

The son of a midwestern farmer, William Stoner comes to the University of Missouri in 1910 to study agriculture. Stoner tells of love and conflict, passion and responsibility against the backdrop of academic life in the early 20th century.

Berlin, 1933. The night skies are burning bright with huge bonfires of banned books. The Nazi party is swelling in number, Berlin is no longer a safe place for young Freya. She can only watch on, horrified, as her beloved city falls to fascism - and the usually law-abiding Freya is forced to make...

London, 1963. Angelica harbours a dark secret from the war. Having made a new life for herself in East London's Stepney, she has created a family of her own. Sometimes the ghosts of France feel far away. Finally, she's ready to move on. But secrets catch up with you, whether you like it or not. F...

DCI Jack Parker fights to hide his Early Onset Dementia while he continues to do the job he loves - investigating crimes & bringing villains to justice. Still haunted by the death of a colleague in a hit & run for which he blames himself, he pursues the case with a determination bordering on reck...

This novel explores the hidden springs of thought and action in one day of a woman's life. Virginia Woolf is direct and vivid in her account of the details of Clarissa Dalloway's preparation for a party. The novel was first published in 1925 by the same Hogarth Press that Woolf and her husband fo...

It's 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is well and truly over. Living alone in her late mother's country home, Isabel's life is as it should be: led by routine and discipline. But all is upended when her b...

When Alice Carroll steps into Curiosity Cottage, a picture-perfect former bric-a-brac shop in the Cotswold Village of Little Pride, she thinks she's found the perfect place to start the new phase of her life. Freshly separated from her collector long-term boyfriend, she's excited to embrace her n...

Julie Chan didn't mean to steal her identical twin's life. She meant to call the police when she found the body. She meant to dial 911. Except when she unlocked Chloe's phone to make that call, she also gained access to her estranged sister's sponsorship deals, her followers, her wealth, her whol...

Edited by prize-winning writer and broadcaster A.S. Byatt, this collection of English short stories contains 37 stories selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J.G. Ballard and Angela Carter.