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Explores the effects of invasion on both the conquered and the conquerors.

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When Rachel Verinder's birthday present - the Moonstone, a large Indian diamond - is stolen at her party, suspicion and the diamond's mysterious curse seem set to ruin everyone and everything she loves. Only Sergeant Cuff's famous detective skills offer any hope of peace and a future for them all.

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'The first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels' T S Eliot

When Rachel Verinder receives a gift of an astonishing yellow diamond from her bitter old uncle for her eighteenth birthday, she has no idea that the stone brings great danger with it.

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Part of Alma Classics Evergreen series, The Moonstone is here presented with an extensive section on Collins's life and works.

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The moonstone is a yellow diamond of unearthly beauty brought from India and given to Rachel Verrinder as an eighteenth birthday present, but the fabled diamond carries with it a terrible curse.

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A book of the utmost importance, in the words of Lenin, and a landmark in Russian literature, The Mother here presented in a brilliant new version by Hugh Aplin, the first English translation in almost a century will enchant modern readers both for its historical significance and its intrinsic value as a work of art.

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Written at the same time as Oliver Twist - indeed the serialized version of the novel referred to Mudfog as the protagonist's home town - The Mudfog Papers lampoons all manner of journalistic and scientific writing of the time and showcases the young Dickens at his satirical best.

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Horror, madness, violence and the dark forces hidden in humanity abound in this tales, including - among others - the bloody, brutal and baffling murder of a mother and daughter in Paris in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", the creeping insanity of "The Tell-Tale Heart", and the Gothic nightmare of "The Masque of the Red Death".

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A mysterious stranger appears at a New Years Eve party, becoming the enigmatic sleuthing sidekick to the snobbish Mr Satterthwaite

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This collection unites Twain's most accomplished short works, including "The Mysterious Stranger, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, " and seven other stories. Revised reissue.

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And while seeming to smile on the engagement of his nephew, Edwin Drood, he is, in fact, consumed by jealousy, driven to terrify the boy's fiance and to plot the murder of Edwin himself.

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This is a book about heroism - of sorts. He could become one of the great ones of the game, a player unmatched in his time - a hero. But his first hard-won big chance ends violently, at the hands of a crazy girl, and then it is years before he gets another shot.

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O'Hara was American fiction's greatest eavesdropper, recording the everyday speech and tone of all strata of mid-century society Wall Street Journal

John O'Hara remains the great chronicler of American society, and nowhere are his powers more evident than in his portraits of New York's so-called Golden Age.

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An original collection of all of James's New York Stories.

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Echoes of Angela Carters more fantastical fiction reverberate through this exuberant tale of a hermaphrodite Jekyll and Hyde figureenjoyably energetic SUNDAY TIMES

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With this pair of absurd, comic stories, the author indulges his imagination and delights readers.

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Hoffmann's classic Christmas fairy tale, immortalised by Tchaikovsky's ballet, is brought to life by the gorgeous contemporary artwork of Finnish illustrator, Sanna Annuka.

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The humour of the shop and the pilgrimage counterbalance the tragic and sentimental story of Little Nell. A Disney production of THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP has recently finished shotting in Ireland, starring James Fox, Peter Ustinov, and Tom Courtenay.

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* Black comedy in the style of The Dud Avocado * 'Definitely demonic, exquisitely carved, deadly murderous comedy' Dawn Powell, Book Week

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You might find it hard to imagine that those ageing spinsters living quietly in small English towns ever led lives of passion or hardship, that they ever possessed beauty or romantic ideals. This title tells the story of two such old wives, sisters Constance and Sophia, from youth, through marriage, heartbreak, triumphs and disasters, to old age.

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An inability to control his fantasies sends Gilbert Pinfold, a well-known author, cruising on a Ceylon-bound liner to recuperate. Yet, to his horror, the hallucinations increase and life on board becomes very embarrassing.

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'Powerful as [Richard Wright] was - is - as a writer, nobody can surpass him in doing certain kinds of writing...