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Orlando
Вирджиния Вулф
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.’Written for...
Frankenstein
Мэри Шелли
In the most famous gothic horror story ever told, Shelley confronts the limitations of science, the nature of human cruelty and the pathway to forgiveness.‘The rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when,...
Kim
Редьярд Джозеф Киплинг
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.‘“I am Kim. I am Kim. And what is Kim?” His soul repeated it again and again.’Set against the backdrop of Britain and Russia’s political struggle in central Asia, Kim,...
Persuasion
Джейн Остин
HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.‘She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.’Written at the end of the...
Middlemarch
Джордж Элиот
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbours.’An epic study of provincial life at a time when...
Moonfleet
John Falkner Meade
First published in 1898, and now a major TV series, Moonfleet is a riveting adventure story full of drama, mystery, revenge, pursuit, smuggling, pirates, and romance, sharing its literary canon with Treasure Island and Kidnapped.The tiny village...
Pollyanna
Элинор Портер
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘When you look for the bad, expecting it, you will get it. When you know you will find the good—you will get that’When life feels difficult, Pollyanna has...
Afterlife
Клаудия Грей
When Bianca chooses death over becoming a vampire, she doesn’t realise that another life lies in store…The fourth and final novel in the internationally best-selling EVERNIGHT series – a vampire romance with a shocking twist.Bianca and Lucas...
Fallen Angel
Andrew Taylor
Like an archaeological dig, The Roth Trilogy strips away the past to reveal the menace lurking in the present: ‘Taylor has established a sound reputation for writing tense, clammy novels that perceptively penetrate the human psyche’ – Marcel...
Cold Killing
Luke Delaney
Terrifyingly authentic, London-set debut crime novel with a psychological edge, by an ex-Met detective. Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Peter James and Stuart MacBride.NO MOTIVE. NO MERCY. NO REMORSE.A series of brutal killings leaves South...
Star Struck
Val McDermid
‘This is crime writing of the very highest order … Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around’ The TimesBodyguarding had never made it to Manchester PI Kate Brannigan’s wish list. But somebody’s got to pay the bills at...
Blue Genes
Val McDermid
Private eye Kate Brannigan confronts betrayal and cold-blooded greed as she investigates the alien world of medical experimentation and the underbelly of the rock music business.Kate Brannigan’s not just having a bad day, she’s having a bad...
Crack Down
Val McDermid
‘Crime writing of the very highest order … Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around’ The TimesThere was only one reason Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan was prepared to let her boyfriend help out with the...
Clean Break
Val McDermid
Manchester-based, kick-boxing PI Kate Brannigan takes on the hard men of European organised crime as she battles to recover a Monet in a case that stretches love and loyalty to the limits.Manchester-based private eye Kate Brannigan is not amused...
Kick Back
Val McDermid
‘Kate Brannigan is truly welcome. Hot on one-liners, Chinese food, tabloid papers and Thai boxing, she is refreshingly funny’ Daily MailKate Brannigan, feisty Manchester-based PI, is back, investigating the bizarre case of the missing...
Dead Beat
Val McDermid
‘This is crime writing of the very highest order … Kate Brannigan has turned into the most interesting sleuthess around’ The TimesDead Beat introduces Kate Brannigan, a female private detective who does for Manchester what V.I. Warshawski has...
Exit Lines
Reginald Hill
Another excellent Dalziel and Pascoe story from the master of the British crime novelThree old men die on a stormy November night: one by deliberate violence, one in a road accident and one by an unknown cause.Inspector Pascoe is called in to...
Ruling Passion
Reginald Hill
‘One of the modern masters of the police procedural’ Sunday TelegraphPeter Pascoe is in shock. A weekend in the country with old friends turns into a nightmare when he finds three of them dead and the missing fourth a prime suspect in the eyes...
Black Dog
Stephen Booth
Dark, intense and utterly compelling, ‘Black Dog’ was an extraordinary first novel from a writer who has rapidly become the most promising crime author to emerge in the genre in years.‘Where Cooper stood was remote and isolated … but the smell...
Ghost Night
Heather Graham
A slasher movie turns real when two young actors are brutally murdered on a remote island film set. Their severed heads and arms are posed in macabre homage to a nineteenth-century pirate massacre. Two years later, survivor Vanessa Loren is...
Midsummer Night
Deanna Raybourn
Readers everywhere have fallen for New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn's intrepid amateur sleuth and socialite, Lady Julia Grey. Not to mention her devastating partner in crime, Nicholas Brisbane. Midsummer Night is the long...
The Shimmer
Carsten Stroud
‘Carsten Stroud is a world-class storyteller… He effortlessly combines hard-nosed cops, mafia dons, and supernatural events with convincing ease. The prose is music. He had me reading late into the night.’ STEPHEN KINGHow do you hunt a killer...
Dumb Witness
Агата Кристи
An elderly spinster has been poisoned in her country home…Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her...
Poirot Investigates
Агата Кристи
The very first collection of superb short stories featuring Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings…First there was the mystery of the film star and the diamond… then came the ‘suicide’ that was murder… the mystery of the absurdly chaep flat… a...
Black Coffee
Агата Кристи
A full-length Hercule Poirot novel, adapted from Agatha Christie’s stage play by Charles OsborneSir Claud Amory’s revolutionary new formula for a powerful explosive is stolen. Locking his house-guests in the library, Sir Claud switches off the...
Trent Intervenes
E. Bentley C.
Twelve stories from the celebrated author of one of the most famous mystery classics ever written, Trent's Last Case.Philip Trent is an artist, a journalist, and an urbane unraveller of highly problematical crimes. Here the unshakable sleuth...
The Clocks
Агата Кристи
A typist uncovers a man’s body from behind the sofa…As instructed, stenographer Sheila Webb let herself into the house at 19 Wilbraham Crescent. It was then that she made a grisly discovery: the body of a dead man sprawled across the living room...
Sad Cypress
Агата Кристи
An elderly stroke victim dies without having arranged a will…Beautiful young Elinor Carlisle stood serenely in the dock, accused of the murder of Mary Gerrard, her rival in love. The evidence was damning: only Elinor had the motive, the...
Vintage Murder
Ngaio Marsh
A touring theatre company in New Zealand forms the basis of one of Marsh’s most ambitious and innovative novelsNew Zealand theatrical manager Alfred Meyer is planning a surprise for his wife's birthday – a jeroboam of champagne descending gently...
Photo-Finish
Ngaio Marsh
Murder and mayhem strike when a small group of people are confined to an island in the middle of a New Zealand lake in one of Ngaio Marsh’s last – and best – novels.The luxury mansion on New Zealand's Lake Waihoe is the ideal place for a...
Colour Scheme
Ngaio Marsh
Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand’s North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel.It was a horrible death – Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to...
Light Thickens
Ngaio Marsh
The complete series of Ngaio Marsh reissues concludes with the re-publication of this 20th anniversary edition of this, her final novel.Peregrine Jay, owner of the Dolphin Theatre, is putting on a magnificent production of Macbeth, the play...
Dead Water
Ngaio Marsh
A quirky Roderick Alleyn mystery about faith, greed – and murder.Times are good in the Cornish village of Portcarrow, as hundreds of unfortunates flock to taste the miraculous waters of Pixie Falls.Then Miss Emily Pride inherits the celebrated...
Final Curtain
Ngaio Marsh
A country house murder, artistic insight and the post-war reunion of Alleyn and Troy combine in Ngaio Marsh’s wittiest and most readable novel.Agatha Troy, world famous portrait painter, is inveigled into accepting a commission to paint the...
Swing, Brother, Swing
Ngaio Marsh
Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued.The music rises to a climax: Lord Pastern aims his revolver and fires. The figure in the spotlight falls – and the coup-de-th?atre has become murder… Has the eccentric peer let hatred of his future...
False Scent
Ngaio Marsh
Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued.Mary Bellamy, darling of the London stage, holds a 50th birthday party, a gala for everyone who loves her and fears her power. Then someone uses a deadly insect spray on Mary instead of the azaleas. The...
Third Girl
Агата Кристи
A perplexed girl thinks she might have killed someone…Three single girls shared the same London flat. The first worked as a secretary; the second was an artist; the third who came to Poirot for help, disappeared convinced she was a murderer.Now...
Last Ditch
Ngaio Marsh
A classic Ngaio Marsh novelYoung Rickie Alleyn had come to the Channel Islands to try to write, but village life was tedious – until he saw the stablehand in the ditch. Dead, it seemed, from an unlucky jump.It might have ended there had Rickie...
Grave Mistake
Ngaio Marsh
Another classic Ngaio Marsh novel.At first it looked as if Sybil Foster had intentionally left the world: with two husbands dead, a daughter marrying the wrong man and – it later appeared – a debilitating disease, it was no wonder she took her...
Opening Night
Ngaio Marsh
A classic Ngaio Marsh novel reissued.Dreams of stardom had lured Martyn Tarne from faraway New Zealand to make the dreary, soul-destroying round of West End agents and managers in search of work. The Vulcan Theatre had been her last forlorn...
Good Wives
Луиза Мэй Олкотт
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.’In mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts, Meg, Jo, Beth and Amy...
The Odyssey
Гомер
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Alas that mortalsShould blame the gods! From us, they say,All evils come. Yet they themselvesIt is who through defiant deedsBring sorrow on them-far more...
Oliver Twist
Чарльз Диккенс
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'Oliver Twist has asked for more!'Fleeing the workhouse, Oliver finds himself taken under the wing of the Artful Dodger and caught up with a group of pickpockets in...
Mansfield Park
Джейн Остин
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘I pay very little regard…to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not...
The Moonstone
Уилки Коллинз
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.’Centred around a glorious yellow diamond that carries with it a...
Silas Marner
Джордж Элиот
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us: there have been many circulations of the sap before we detect the...
Moll Flanders
Даниэль Дефо
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.‘My true name is so well known in the Records or Registers at Newgate, and in the Old Bailey, and there are some things of such consequence still depending there,...
The Woodlanders
Томас Харди (Гарди)
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Grace Melbury, the only daughter of a timber-merchant, arrives home in Little Hintock after an expensive education and her father looks to find a husband...
Arabian Nights
Sir Burton Richard
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘“For,” said he, “there never was nor is there one chaste woman upon the face of earth.”’A collection of Persian, Arabian and Indian tales dating from the 9th...
The Deerslayer
Джеймс Фенимор Купер
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Set in the 1740s, just after the start of the French and Indian wars, James Fenimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer tells the story of a young Natty Bumppo, most...
