Picador Books Series

Set internationally and spanning three decades, Daniel Martin is, among other things, an exploration of what it is to be English. Daniel is a screenwriter working in Hollywood, who finds himself dissatisfied with his career and with the person he has become. In a richly evoked narrative, Daniel travels home to reconcile with a dying friend, and also to visit his own forgotten past in an attempt to discover himself.

The Magus

by John Fowles

Published May 1966

First published by Cape in 1966, a novel in which a man on a remote Greek island finds himself embroiled in the deceptions of a master trickster, where surreal threads weave ever tighter as reality and illusion intertwine in a bizarre psychological game. From the author of THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN, A MAGGOT and MANTISSA.

The Collector

by John Fowles

Published 1 January 1963

The Collector (1963) is disturbing, engrossing, unforgettable -- the story of an obsessive young man and the girl he kidnaps and holds prisoner in his cellar.

A Maggot

by John Fowles

Published 19 September 1985

An extraordinary work of fiction, from one of the world's most exceptional writers.

The year is 1736 and five travellers are journeying across Exmoor on horseback, their purpose unknown. One evening they stop at a village inn for some rest and, soon after, hear that a man has been hanged nearby and that another is missing. What follows is a maze of beguiling paths and wrong turnings, rituals and revelations, unaccountable motives and cryptic deeds, as the mystery swerves towards a startling vision at its centre.

'This altogether admirable novel serves, as all literature should, the forces of subversion' Anthony Burgess, Observer

'The reader is carried headlong into a maze of violent death, bizarre sex, disguise and terror' Sunday Times