Collection: Adult fiction

This is the compelling story of two women, born centuries apart, and the ancestral legacy that binds them. Tracy Chevalier is the author of 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' and 'Falling Angels'.

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.

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.

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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.

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 ...