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This is the tale of two families both joined and riven by love and hate. Cathy is a beautiful and wilful young woman torn between her soft-hearted husband and Heathcliff, the passionate and resentful man who has loved her since childhood. The power of their bond creates a maelstrom of cruelty and violence which will leave one of them dead and cast a shadow over the lives of their children.
Her mother’s dying request takes Mary Yellan on a sad journey across the bleak moorland of Cornwall to reach Jamaica Inn, the home of her Aunt Patience. With the coachman’s warning echoing in her memory, Mary arrives to find Patience a changed woman, cowering from her overbearing husband, Joss Merlyn.
Following ship surgeon Lemuel Gulliver, Jonathan Swift’s satire, Gulliver’s Travels, is a humorous critique of the darker aspects of human nature. During his voyage, Gulliver visits four islands, each more bizarre and fantastical than the last.
The classic, heartrending story of a British boy’s four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester.
A sparkling celebration of Paris by some of the greatest writers in the world from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Elizabeth von Arnim’s much-loved novel about four women sharing a castle in the Italian Riviera.
A beautiful and sustaining volume of poetry which offers inspiration for funeral readings.
A stunning gift edition of the Arsène Lupin stories which inspired the hit Netflix series Lupin, with an introduction from Emma Bielecki.
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