Collection: Adult Fiction

Author, dramatist and satirist, Gogol deeply influenced Russian literature with his powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. This volume includes his most admired short fiction, 'The Diary of a Madman', and his most famous drama, 'The Government Inspect...

Stanley and Rose live in Rawlinson Road, Islington, surrounded by younger, smarter families like the Orams. Encroached on by age and affluence, the only answer to their problems, in spite of everything, lies in their fierce and prickly devotion to each other.

It is 1945 and men and women prepare to return to the lives they left behind in 1939. But the world, for most of them, has changed beyond all recognition. Everyone has been buffeted by the winds of war - now they face the tempestuous tides of peace.

'The Summer Book' is a fresh, vivid and magical novel about seemingly endless summers of discovery. An elderly artist and her six-year-old granddaughter while away the summer together, on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds and sudden storms.

Charles Wenmouth is a young lay preacher in 1870s Cornwall who finds himself drawn to a local blind girl by the faith she maintains despite her disability, but after one Sabbath spent preaching, he returns to his village to hear devastating news. Will he face the doubt that has long threatened to...

Cora Bender killed a man. But why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the throat, again and again, until she was pulled off his body?

'The Dream Archipelago' is an interlinked collection of stories in which Christopher Priest explores war, relationships and different forms of reality. The stories take place in a world that is vastly different from our own.

'Born in Fire' is the first book in a trilogy of novels about the Concannon sisters of western Ireland. A wealthy American gallery owner seeks out Irish glass artist Maggie Concannon, hoping to feature her work. But as soon as they meet, the sparks begin to fly.

Angela is six when her parents hand her over to an aunt and uncle. She's well cared for until she's 16 when her uncle takes too much of an interest in her. Moving to Liverpool, she becomes a success in the world of fashion design. The pain of a love affair sends her home to Ireland where she make...

Kate McKinnon is a professional cook and single mother whose career is jeopardized when she falls for a high-ranking politician.