BREAKING POINT, THE: SHORT STORIES

THE BIRDS AND OTHER STORIES

A classic of alienation and horror, 'The Birds' was immortalised by Hitchcock in his celebrated film. The five other chilling stories in this collection echo a sense of dislocation and mock man's sense of dominance over the natural world.

THE DOLL AND OTHER STORIES

In these short stories, some of which have been lost for decades and are collected here for the first time, du Maurier displays to full effect her remarkable imagination.

DON'T LOOK NOW AND OTHER STORIES

Five short stories from a celebrated writer, exploring deep fears, longings, secrets and desires.

THE FLIGHT OF THE FALCON

It is over 500 years since Duke Claudio the Falcon lived his brutal life in Ruffano. But have things really changed? Do murder and outrages mean the flight of a new Falcon?

FRENCHMAN'S CREEK

Weary of the debauchery of life at the court of Charles II, Dona, Lady St. Coulomb, flees London and escapes to her husband's home in Cornwall. Here she finds peace and beauty and a swashbuckling French pirate.

THE GLASS-BLOWERS

Sophie Duval reveals to her long-lost nephew the tragic story of a family of master craftsmen in eighteenth-century France, with the violence and terror of the Revolution as a clamouring background against which their loves and their hopes are played out.

GROWING PAINS

A remarkable insight into the mind of a woman who became a famous writer and remained a person of warmth, wisdom and integrity.The author writes of her early life, from the time she was very small until, at the age of 25, her first novel had been published.

THE HOUSE ON THE STRAND

After experimenting with a drug, Dick Young is transported back to the fourteenth century and starts to resent time he must spend in the modern world.

JAMAICA INN

After her mother's death, Mary Yellon left the friendly shores of the Helford River to go and live with her mother's sister at Jamaica Inn, where her uncle was the landlord. She first sensed something was wrong when the coachman looked uncomfortable about her destination …

MY COUSIN RACHEL

Philip Ashley, an orphan, is raised by his much older cousin, Ambrose, a single man who names Philip as his heir. On a trip to Florence Ambrose meets and marries the beautiful Rachel but then dies suddenly without returning home.When Rachel arrives in England Philip finds himself strongly attracted to her.

REBECCA

When Maxim de Winter brings his new bride home to Manderley she is haunted by the spirit of his first wife, Rebecca. A gripping novel of love and suspense set in Cornwall.

THE SCAPEGOAT

A warring family, ailing business, sordid past and the chance of escape for opportunist Jean Comte de Gue.

WINDING STAIR, THE: FRANCIS BACON, HIS RISE AND FALL

Francis Bacon was an obscure but ambitious lawyer. He became Solicitor-General and rapidly rose to the office of Lord Chamberlain, whilst writing a stream of books that would influence later generations of scientists and thinkers. His time of influence was short lived as he was stripped of office after being accused of corruption.