Toni Morrison   Toni Morrison's Paradise takes place in the tiny farming community of Ruby, Oklahoma, which its residents proudly proclaim "the one all-black town worth the pain." Settled by...

Judith McNaught Corporate raider Matthew Farrell had come a long way from the poor, scruffy kid of Indiana's steel mills. A long way from the country club where, feeling like...

Nina Stibbe This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in Leicestershire in the 1970s. The place...

John MiltonThis epic is Milton's most famous work, employing the heterodox theology later expounded in De Doctrina Christiana.

MiltonMilton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the story of the Fall of Man, a tale of immense drama and excitement,...

Eileen PollackWe first meet Lucy Appelbaum, the heroine of Paradise, New York, in 1970, as a nine-year-old girl enjoying her family's Catskills hotel, the Garden of Eden. Ten years later,...

John Meaney Nulapeiron is an isolated planet ruled by supra-human beings and the law of the Logic Lords. The people are impoverished and brutalised. In a life-changing event, a legendary...

Joseph Finder   It was only a prank: diverting cash from Wyatt Telecom's executive slush fund to throw a retirement bash for a member of the loading dock crew. But...

Author: Liam Callanan Some stories are still waiting to be found. In a city of millions, it’s easy to lose someone… Twelve weeks before Leah Eady arrived in France, her...

James Patterson and Richard DiLallo The evidence is clear—Luc Moncrief, the most famous detective in Paris, is now the sharpest crime-solving mind in the NYPD. Three thrilling cases from the...

Sebastian Faulks A Times Fiction Book of the Year'Superb . . . weaves winningly between the present and the second world war, between Tangiers and Paris.' ObserverHere is Paris as...

Jojo MoyesBestselling author Jojo Moyes brings us a charming and heart-warming short story in association with Quick Reads.Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She has never even...