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'The Count of Monte Cristo' is one of the great popular novels of all time and a landmark in the development of modern popular fiction. Robin Buss's lively English translation remains faithful to the style of Dumas's original.

Anna Karenina seems to have everything - beauty, wealth, popularity and an adored son. But she feels that her life is empty until the moment she encounters the impetuous officer Count Vronsky. Their subsequent affair scandalises society and family alike, and soon brings jealousy and bitterness in...

For the first time in his long life, renowned author Kogito Choko is suffering from writer's block. The book that he wishes to write would examine the turbulent relationship he had with his father, and the guilt he feels about being absent the night his father drowned in a storm-swollen river; bu...

1918: the war on the Western Front is all but over. Two soldiers are forced together and their friendship continues in civilian life, as they piece together their lives and devise a money-making scam that could make them a fortune ...

A woman arrives in the village of Winsford on Exmoor. She has travelled a long way and chosen her secluded cottage carefully. Her sole intention is to outlive her beloved dog Castor. And to survive the torrent of memories that threaten to overwhelm her. Weeks before, Maria and her husband Martin ...

Jon is on the run. He has betrayed Oslo's biggest crime lord: The Fisherman. Fleeing to an isolated corner of Norway, to a mountain town so far north that the sun never sets, Jon hopes to find sanctuary amongst a local religious sect. Hiding out in a shepherd's cabin in the wilderness, all that s...

1945, Lake Como. Mussolini and his mistress are captured and shot by local partisans. The precise circumstances of Il Duce's death remain shrouded in confusion and controversy. 1992, Milan. Colonna, a depressed hack writer, is offered a fee he can't refuse to ghost-write a memoir. His subject: a ...

A writer discovers a set of notes in his notebook and sets off on a journey through the Paris of his past, in search of the woman he loved 40 years previously. In the Montparnasse district, he retraces his nocturnal footsteps around the Left Bank during France's period of decolonisation in the 19...

1870s Sicily. Much to the displeasure of Vigàta's stubborn populace, the town has just been unified under the Kingdom of Italy. They're now in the hands of a new government they don't understand, and they definitely don't like. Eugenio Bortuzzi has been named Prefect for Vigàta, a regional repr...

Heartsick over the break-up of his relationship with the alluring, elusive novelist Hayat, the narrator of 'The Dust of Promises' finds himself in Paris, where he has come to receive an award for his photograph of a traumatised war-orphan, but he knows that no picture can ever fully capture the d...