Kolymsky Heights: Lionel Davidson
Kolymsky Heights. A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless nights, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It's a place so secret it doesn't officially exist; once there, the scientists are forbidden to leave. But one scientist is desperate to get a message to the outside world. So desperate, he sends a plea across the wildness to the West in order to summon the one man alive capable of achieving the impossible ...
Fast-moving, exhilarating and starring a highly unusual hero, Kolymsky Heights is an unforgettable thriller with a spectacular denouement.
'A breathless story of fear and courage.' Daily Telegraph More
A Fearful Joy: Joyce Cary
This ambitious novel, covering the life of an exceptional woman from her Victorian childhood until after the Second World War, is an attempt, in the author's own words, 'to lay ... More
Tenant for Death: Cyril Hare
Originally published in 1937, Tenant for Death is the first novel by Cyril Hare, one of the best-loved Golden Age crime writers. Two young estate agent’s clerks are sent to ... More
On the Eve: Ivan Turgenev
On the Eve is set at the beginning of the Crimean War and probes the friendships and loves of Elena, a young Russian woman, and the men in her life. ... More
The World of William Clissold Vol. 2: H. G. Wells
Though this novel was first published in 1926, with a preface strenuously denying that it was anything but a work of fiction, William Clissold is nevertheless a character whose thought ... More
A Messiah of the Last Days: C. J. Driver
Allegro Postillions: Jonathan Keates
Massacre and revolution in the mountains of Calabria, passion and betrayal in a Venetian opera house, a web of baffled desire spun during a summer in Verona, a world where ... More
Galaxies like Grains of Sand: Brian Aldiss
‘Brian Aldiss seems to have always had a more oceanic sense of time than most science fiction writers, an almost measured vision of what will transpire in the long run, ... More
The Dark Light Years: Brian Aldiss
‘Flies straight to its mark with hardly a word wasted: a treat for the fans and required reading for anyone seriously interested in the fiction and ideas of today.’ Kingsley Amis on The Dark Light Years by Brian Aldiss. More
The Torrents of Spring and Other Stories: Ivan Turgenev
The Torrents of Spring and Other Stories was written when Turgenev was in his fifties and is considered to be partly autobiographical. Also known as Spring Torrents, The Torrents of ... More
As If By Magic: Angus Wilson
Hamo Langmuir flies westwards round the world to examine the effects of his miraculous high-yielding rice, leaving a bleak and impotent existence behind him. His god-daughter, Alexandra Grant, travels with ... More
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