Daphne Du Maurier

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

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?

45Weary 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.

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 …

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.

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.

In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination. Includes 'Blue Lenses'.

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.

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.

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.