Collection: Adult fiction

Finding herself stifled by marriage, Emma Bovary throws herself into a desperate love affair and by doing so, sows the seeds of her own downfall.

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.

General

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.

Stephanie Plum, bombshell bounty hunter, is dropped into a smorgasbord of murder, kidnapping and extortion. However, her mind is on other matters - she has two proposals to consider: marriage, and a single perfect night out with her partner.

Trouble seems to find Stephanie Plum wherever she goes, and once again she's struggling with her tangled love life, chaotic family and her god-given gift for destroying every car she drives. She decides to quit her job as a bounty hunter, again, but it's not quite so easy.

This novel follows the story of Oona 'Star' Sullivan, a sweet and considerate girl who wants nothing more than for everybody in her family to be happy - until that is, the boy next door moves in and everyone starts worrying about her.