Transferred to Naples after a tangle with the Sicilian Mafia, Detective Inspector Giuseppe...
If this is a man
"With the moral stamina and intellectual poise of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built,...
Rudin
"The only people who remain misunderstood are those who either do not know what they want or are...
The Seville Communion
Murderous goings-on in a tiny church draw the Vatican into the dark heart of Seville. A hacker...
Fair Play
“One of those rare stories capable of making the reader feel at one with the writer.” Irish Times...
Madame Bovary
With Madame Bovary Flaubert established the realistic novel in France. Yet he always refused to...
Nana
Perhaps Zola's most famous novel, Nana is an evocation of the glittering, corrupt world of the...
L’Assommoir
"I wanted to depict the inevitable downfall of the working-class family in the polluted atmosphere...
Thérèse Raquin
Thanks to our guest reviewer, Kenny Campbell. "I was familiar with Zola's later career, and knew...
Gigi & The Cat
In these two superb stories of the politics of love, Colette is at her witty, instinctive best....













