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"Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm Brothers did." - Times Literary Supplement "He is certainly the best British novelist in his field and deserves the widest...

The eighteenth-century bestseller that may have inspired Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility republished for the first time in a modern edition One of the most popular and prolific authors of her...

Gordon Rutherford, a young writer, finds himself in a dangerous dilemma when he is the only witness to the accidental death of an acquaintance. Because of the strange circumstances of the case,...

Billy Casper is a fifteen-year-old with no future, growing up in poverty and seemingly destined to follow his older brother into a life of toil in the coal mines. Life at home is hard: his father has...

Billy Casper is a fifteen-year-old with no future, growing up in poverty and seemingly destined to follow his older brother into a life of toil in the coal mines. Life at home is hard: his father has...

In A Life Marketed as Fiction, Karen Morton argues for a reevaluation of the prolific late eighteenth century author Eliza Parsons, who at age fifty was forced to begin writing novels to provide for...

'Our only current writer who can induce such terror as the Grimm brothers did, and some of the Grimm characters are among the ingredients in this hellbrew of the return of the Black Death.' - Times...

'[Nelson's] style is swift and straightforward, his narrative gift considerable ... Consistently diverting, this may be the novel about homosexuality to end all novels on the subject .. . [W]ill make...

"The story has a nightmarish excitement and maintains a brilliant pace . . . the best of its kind this season." - Detroit News "[S]pine-chilling . . . a far-reaching plot linking the horror camps of...

"A writer who deserves to be admired and cherished." - Francis King "[O]ne of the most original novelists of his generation. His delicate, witty prose ably evokes the atmosphere of south London in...

A gruesome wave of murder--suicides is sweeping England, leaving the police baffled. But General Kirk of British Intelligence thinks the deaths may be connected to the one case he never solved, the...

"It was a book called A Spoiler of Men, by Richard Marsh, and there was a repulsive crime on almost every page. It was Hot Stuff." - P. G. Wodehouse "A Spoiler of Men is as good as The Beetle, and...

Charles Beaumont's untimely death in 1967 at age 38 cut short the brief but brilliant career of a writer now regarded as a master of modern weird fiction. The author of three extraordinary...

'Once upon a time there will be a little girl called Uncumber . . .' Uncumber lives in the distant future, in a world sharply divided between 'Insiders' and 'Outsiders'. The Insiders lead a...

'[A] triumph of mature observation and art.' - Daily Telegraph 'A winter's tale of light and laughter.' - Sunday Times 'What is especially enjoyable is the rough-edged tenderness and kindness of Mr...

Mark Langworthy has just returned home after a stint as a colonial administrator in India. Once a promising writer, his dreams and idealism have been extinguished, and he returns stricken with...

"Keeps you pegging away, page after page, unwilling to put the book down." - New York Times "Mr. Shute knows how to pick astonishing stories and how to keep them moving on non-stop tracks." - New...

'Creepy . . . develops a sense of palpable evil . . . well worth the time of readers who prefer slyly civilized British ghost stories' - Kirkus Reviews 'Fiendishly clever, spine-tingling short...

Azemia is a satirical attack on what William Beckford perceived as characteristically feminine novel-writing. First published in 1797, under the pseudonym Jacquetta Agneta Mariana Jenks, it joined...

'Alex Hamilton is one of the absolute masters of the sunlit nightmare, the tale of insidious disquiet and relentless unease. He's a true original, and it's past time that he took his place in the...

'Buy, borrow or beg Keith Waterhouse's outstanding new novel. I can't recommend it too highly. Waterhouse has an uncanny gift for recapturing every attitude, agony and phrase of childhood and youth.'...

'The funniest book I've read for years' - The Times (London) 'Among the few great writers of our time' - Auberon Waugh, The Independent 'Well written and amusing' - Library Journal Keith...

"[A] first-class psychological study . . . the character drawing, although a little cruel, is admirably done and the writing is consistently excellent." - Times Literary Supplement "It is original,...

Theron Ware is a renowned scholar and Doctor of Divinity. He is also secretly one of the world's great Black magicians. And when a rich megalomaniac industrialist, Baines, enlists his aid in...

When Amy Burton's mother-in-law buys her and her husband Eric a lovely old mansion, it sounds like a dream come true for the young couple. But there's something not quite right about the house. Old...

When Irene Rutledge, a brilliant and beautiful young graduate student, meets the mysterious and fascinating Frank Mattison, the two soon fall in love and marry, despite the warnings of Irene's family...

'[A] well-planned story ... thrilling ... persistently interesting.' - Times Literary Supplement 'Intelligent, well characterised murder mystery with expert secondhand book trade setting.' - Maurice...

'Sharpish in dialogue, slick in characterization . . . made with sympathy and imagination.' - Times Literary Supplement 'A very lively and entertaining novel.' - Sunday Times 'Flows along at an...

In "Staunton's Dinner," Vane Staunton returns after an absence of many years and hosts a dinner for his former friends. But they are horrified to find that he is terribly changed and now appears to...

"A study of poignant beauty and truth, written in a prose so exquisite that one almost forgets the story in the reading of it." - Glasgow Herald "This work is throughout light, clear, delicate, and...