A young English boy describes his relationship with his father and the special adventure they share together.

From the pen of a master-the #1 bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of Atonement-comes an astonishing novel that captures the fine balance of happiness and the unforeseen threats that can destroy it. A brilliant, thrilling page-turner that will keep readers on the edge of their seats. Saturday is a masterful novel set within a single day in February 2003. Henry Perowne is a contented man-a successful neurosurgeon, happily married to a newspaper...

A master criminal plots and carries out the robbery of gold bullion being sent by train from London to Paris in supposedly invulnerable safes.

Oliver Twist is born an orphan and grows up handed from bad position to worse. Eventually he ends up in the London street gang run by Fagin, who attempts to blacken the boy's pure soul in his service. Through chance and coincidence Oliver is restored to his mother's middle-class family, where he is shown love and comfort for the first time in his life. The villains' attempts to kidnap him back are foiled and all are transported or hanged.

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Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher and her husband, Scotland Yard Inspector Alec Fletcher, the proud new parents of twins, consider it a godsend when they inherit a large house in Hampstead from Alec's great-uncle, but the idyllic setting is disturbed when a dead body shows up in the communal garden, calling Alec away to lead the investigation, and prompting Daisy to try her hand at discovering the identity of the dead man and who did him in.

Set in London in 1837, this is a Dickensian-style novel replete with period slang and flavour. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia. What does he want and why is he so interested in the comings and goings in Great Queen Street? And why is Tobias Oates, celebrated author, amateur hypnotist and fellow-burglar, interested in Jack? 1997.

"British crime icon Ted Lewis's lost masterwork, an unnerving tale of paranoia and madness in the heart of the 1970s London criminal underworld, published in the US for the first time. Two intertwining narratives--past and present--chronicle the man's tragic fall from power. In London, George Fowler resides at the head of a lucrative criminal syndicate that specializes in the production and distribution of "blue films"--illegal pornography, and some...

Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.