First published in 1946, in later years Carr considered this novel one of his finest works. It sh...

'Luke flung the light of his torch full onto the face of the immobile figure. Then he had the sho...

Amidst the confusion of too many fake names, clues, ciphers and convoluted alibis, Macdonald and ...

Written by Angela Milne, the niece of A. A. Milne, and originally published in 1942, the story sh...

From satyrs and sea creatures to griffins and dragons, monsters lay at the heart of the medieval ...

Rose Macaulay's novel, first published in 1928, offers a sharp and witty commentary on how we twi...

This is a timely reissue of a 1960s novel that deals with the lingering trauma of the Second Worl...

Scottish fictional counterpart to Virginia Woolf's feminist essay 'A Room of One's Own'.

Illustrated throughout, and with a complete text translation, the book explores the context in wh...

Manuscripts from the British Library, Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the Getty Museum have ...

First published in 1956, this classic mystery leaps out of rarity to join the British Library Cri...

First published in 1973 but written in the vintage mystery mode, Lettice Cooper uses her literary...