Collection: Adult fiction

When Lily moves into Marcus's flat, she is intrigued by signs of his recently departed ex-lover. A single dress left hanging in the wardrobe, a mysterious mark on the wall, the lingering odour of jasmine. Who was this woman? And what exactly were the circumstances of her sudden disappearance? ...

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.

At once the disturbing, ultimately consoling story of one family's loss and a searing portrait of life at the dawn of the 21st century, 'Unless' is a daring novel from the master of extraordinary fictions about so-called 'ordinary' lives.

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.