William Somerset Maugham 
The Magician 

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Regency at its best – Amazon reviewer⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful!! – Amazon reviewer With truth comes scandal!A Kiss Away from Scandal Hope Strickland must find the lost items of her family’s estate. …

An ex-con on compassionate release revisits his old haunts, only to feel dispossessed by how much the city has changed…The son of political dissidents in Soviet-era Prague is condemned to a life of …

Winner of a PEN Translates Award 2021Kurdistan + 100 poses a question to contemporary Kurdish writers: Might the Kurds one day have a country to call their own? With 13 stories all set in the year …

Two former college friends run into each other on the morning train and find themselves reflecting on the very different paths their lives have taken…A counterfeiter, forever living outside the …

This edition connects four female writers from two different countries, presenting the English translations of two of the most popular eighteenth-century French novels and a sequel to one of …

A scandal outside the palace walls!Christina Rose secretly longs for a fairytale wedding, but her betrothal to Prince Antonio of Halencia was a ruse to prevent a royal scandal but dare she hope their …

A teenager discovers her father only brought her from Pakistan to England because he was being haunted by the spirit of her late mother…A divorcee blunders into his ex-wife’s garden with one goal …

First published in 2002. Jean Froissart is probably the best known medieval historians. His Chronicle (of the Hundred Years War) is among the top ten historical works in western civilization. In his …

First published in 1986, this book provides a handlist to James Joyce’s Ulysses, or a complete alphabetical index to the critical reading text, that is, the text on the right-hand pages in the critic …

The essays in this volume examine questions such as Dickens’ symbolism, his political attitudes, his psychological tensions and his artistry. They are also concerned with aspects of Dickens which hav …