Fiction

The Signalman

Simon Bradley

A classic ghost story by Charles Dickens, introduced by Simon Bradley, author of The Railways

The Woman in Black and Other Ghost Stories

Susan Hill

A stunning gift edition collecting together Susan Hill's bestselling ghost stories

The Neruda Case

Roberto Ampuero

Published for the first time in English, an atmospheric, brilliant novel from an internationally bestselling literary luminary.

Ghost Stories

Various

Draw the curtains, stoke the fire, turn down the lights – what could be better on a winter evening than a ghost story or two, guaranteed to send a shi…

Printer's Devil Court

Susan Hill

Beautiful hardback edition of a perfectly chilling ghost story by the author of The Woman in Black.

OxCrimes

Peter Florence

Following the success of OxTales and OxTravels, this collection of crime writing is the latest Oxfam fundraiser, introduced by Britain's greatest…

Father! Father! Burning Bright

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett's second story. This time, set in the 1970s, in classic Bennett country, Yorkshire. 'On the many occasions Midgley had killed h…

The Clothes They Stood Up In

Alan Bennett

The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it origina…

The Laying On Of Hands

Alan Bennett

Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely…

The Deceivers

John Masters

A twentieth century classic novel of colonialism in India

The Lotus and the Wind

John Masters

Mr Masters's descriptions of the Indian scene are as highly coloured as ever and his narrative as exciting and dashing.

Queenie

Alice Munro

An unforgettable masterpiece from the winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Dolly

Susan Hill

From the greatest living writer of ghost stories, here is a perfect chiller: a story of two damaged children filled with unease, the supernatural and…