The Island of Doctor Moreau is a classic of early science fiction and remains one of Wells’ best-known books.

A keen observer of human behaviour, our unnamed narrator immediately diagnoses rich Susan as an unhappy woman eager to give her life a drama injection.

Actress Chris MacNeil starts to experience ‘difficulties’ with her daughter Regan. She turns to troubled priest and psychiatrist Damien Karras, who immediately recognises something profoundly malevolent in Regan.

Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his powers of observation to bear on the lives of men who, in their own ways, find themselves alone.

Narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport, he flees a maximum-security prison in Australia to escape to Mumbai.

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who would become the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib. He would avenge the traitorous plot against his noble family and would bring to fruition humankind’s most unattainable dream.

Charlie McGee inherited pyrokinetic powers from her parents. Now the government is trying to capture the girl to harness her powerful fire-starting skills as a weapon.

When an ex-cop is called back into action after a copycat killer emerges; dragging up his past proves more problematic than he ever expected.

As Dr Ando searches for an answer to the Ring curse, it begins to take on a new form of infection.

Shed: a half-Indian bisexual boy who lives and works at the Indian Head Hotel in the tiny town of Excellent, Idaho. The hotel carries on a prosperous business as the town’s brothel.

In search of serial killer Buffalo Bill, the FBI is forced to turn to an old adversary – Hannibal Lecter.

When a young woman who is struggling to maintain her career as a novelist discovers that her editor is in danger from the Memory Police, she concocts a plan to hide him beneath her floorboards.