Travelling by train has always had an air of civilised glamour, as the track cuts precise swathes through all terrains. The bringing together of souls journeying together with diverse purposes also makes the railway an ideal setting for fiction. So climb aboard with our selection of the very best railway reads, including implacable opposition to the Nazis in Closely Observed Trains, obsession and murder in Strangers on a Train and, of course, Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
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Leo Tolstoy; Louise Shanks Maude;... Set against the backdrop of Russian high society, this novel charts the course of the doomed love affair between Anna, a beautiful married woman, and Count Vronsky, a wealthy army... | Jules Verne; Michael Glencross; Brian... One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life... |
Shena Mackay Contains thirteen stories, and a selection of twenty-three more from author's previous collection, making it a delight for her existing admirers and the introduction to her work for beginners. | Andrei Makine; Geoffrey Strachan A story of courage and survival in the face of great adversity. |
Agatha Christie Agatha Christie's most famous murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. | Michael Crichton Rich, handsome and ingenious, Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of... |
Hamid Ismailov; Robert Chandler Set mainly in Uzbekistan between 1900 and 1980, this title introduces the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas on the ancient Silk Route. It chronicles the dramatic changes that... | Graham Greene; Christopher Hitchens A gripping spy thriller that unfolds aboard the majestic Orient Express as it crosses Europe from Ostend to Constantinople. |
Pascal Mercier Raimund Gregorius is a mild-mannered, middle-aged professor of ancient languages. One morning, as he is teaching, he is seized by a restlessness that drives him to abandon his classroom then... | Emile Zola; Roger Pearson Did possessing and killing amount to the same thing deep within the dark recesses of the human beast? La Bete humaine (1890), is one of Zola's most violent and ... |
Agatha Christie Agatha Christie's audacious mystery thriller, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. | Edward Marston 1851 and the city of London anticipates the grand opening of the Great Expedition. The London to Birmingham mail train is looted and derailed and Detective Colbeck fights to untangle... |
John Buchan; Stella Rimington It's May, 1914. Britain is on the eve of war with Germany. Richard Hannay is living a quiet life in London, but after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger... | Patricia Highsmith 'Bruno slammed his palms together.' Hey! Cheeses, what an idea! I kill your wife and you kill my father! We meet on a train, see, and nobody knows we know... |
Edward Marston Faced with what initially appears to be a motiveless murder, Colbeck is intrigued by the murder weapon - a noose. When it emerges that the victim had worked as a... | Andrew Martin When railwayman Jim Stringer is assigned to drive holiday makers to Blackpool in the summer of 1905, he thinks he's struck lucky. But his dreams are soon destroyed - when... |