Michael Marshall Now a major BBC TV show, starring John Simm.Taut, menacing, sinister, gripping, intelligent, action-packed – everything you could want from a thriller.When ex-LAPD patrol cop Jack Whalen’s wife...

Washington IrvingIn The Sketch-Book (1820-21), Irving explores the uneasy relationship of an American writer to English literary traditions. In two sketches, he experiments with tales transplanted from Europe, thereby creating...

Sarah WatersOne postwar summer in his home of rural Warwickshire, Dr. Faraday, the son of a maid who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country physician, is...

Andrew Michael HurleyTwo brothers. One mute, the other his life long protector.Year after year, their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the...

Dean KoontzShe had appeared out of nowhere...in the middle of traffic, on a busy day, in front of Carol's car. A teenager with no past, no family - and no...

Franz Kafka"As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. He was laying on his hard, as it were...

Karl Ove Knausgaard The breathtaking new novel from the internationally bestselling author of My Struggle'Knausgaard is among the finest writers alive.' New York TimesOne long night in August, Arne and Tove...

Edgar Allan Poe The Penguin English Library Edition of The Murders in the Rue Morgue and Other Tales by Edgar Allan Poe'... an agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity...

Edgar Allen PoeA stowaway aboard the New England whaler Grampus, young Arthur Gordon Pym finds himself an unwilling passenger on an extraordinary voyage. Edgar Allan Poe's only novel, first published...

Chris Bohjalian It begins with a door in a dusky corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire. A door that someone has sealed shut...

CJ Tudor   She sleeps, a pale girl in a white room . . .Three years ago, Gabe saw his daughter taken. In the back of a rusty old car,...

Jonathan MooreImagine an updated Vertigo: darker, more scary but just as hypnotically seductiveDr Caleb Maddox is an expert on pain. A leading San Francisco toxicologist, he is mapping the chemical...