Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a boy of shallow dreams to a man with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the bleak Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most memorable characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-m...

Wuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Brontë. It tells the story of the intense and destructive love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, two characters whose lives are intertwined with the families of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.

The novel is told through the eyes of Mr. Lockwood, a new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, who becomes fascinated by the history of Wuthering Heights and its inhabitants. He learns about the childhoods of Catherine and Heathcliff, who were b...

Indochina, 1951. Tonkin and northern Annam have been liberated by the Vietminh. In the south, the French are fighting a vicious battle to keep the corrupt regime in

Saigon in power.

We meet Ruben in Nha Trang, an Annamese port town where he debarked from a French ocean liner in search of a monastery that a script said had to be somewhere in the mountains of Annam.

It was not the only reason for his quest: he had inherited a chest with unusual contents: a small skeleton.

Accompanying the che...

A beautiful gift anthology that celebrates gothic prose and poetry in all its wild and captivating glory.

A set of playing cards featuring illustrations of Dickens' most famous characters, with rules to Victorian card games and their mentions in his novels included in the booklet

"The Phantom of the Opera" is a gothic novel by Gaston Leroux. The story is set in the Paris Opera House and follows the mysterious Phantom, who is known to haunt the building's backstage and underground passages. The Phantom becomes infatuated with the opera singer Christine Daaé and starts to manipulate her career, using his musical genius to train her voice and arranging for her to take the lead role in productions.

As Christine's success grows, so does the Phantom's obsession, and he bec...

In the Republic of Azalea, a large and powerful country somewhere in Asia, two small European countries, Holland and Denmark, want to corner the cheese market. Cheese means political influence and commercial profits. Behind the diplomatic glamour and protocol is a world of ruthless scheming bureaucrats who will stoop to anything to destroy their rivals, enemies and friends in their quest for personal gain. Steel Embassy doors are meant to protect ambassadors against the evil world without. B...

In 1914, a room full of German schoolboys, fresh-faced and idealistic, are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war'. With the fire and patriotism of youth, they sign up. What follows is the story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror and disillusionment of life in the trenches.

Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular. But by the time she retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Grand Slam titles. And if you ask Carrie, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father, Javier, as her coach. A former champion himself, Javier has trained her since the age of two.

But six years after her retireme...

'Sensationally good - huge, epic, immersive and absorbing . . . certain to be a book of the year' Lee Child

New Delhi, 3am: a speeding Mercedes jumps the kerb, and in an instant five people are dead. It's a rich man's car, but when the dust settles there is no rich man at all, only a shell-shocked servant who cannot explain what has led to this carnage.

Age of Vice is a novel propelled by the enormous wealth, startling corruption and bloody violence of the Wadia family - lov...