11 Brilliant Fiction Books That Are Totally Free to Kindle Users

If you've seen the film and TV adaptations of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen then you'll know all about Elizabeth Bennett and Mr Darcy and their fascinating relationship. Published more than 200 years ago in 1813, this witty novel is just as relevant to the pride and prejudice of the 21st Century.

Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman brought the detective to a whole new audience in the BBC's adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's great hero. Read the tales of his original cases in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

If contemporary chick lit is more up your street, then Lacey London's Meet Clara Andrews will introduce you to a cocktail-loving heroine who has an ideal life working in the fashion industry, until she starts dating two men and discovers just how hard it is to play the field.

Revel in 1920s Jazz Age America with F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. The eponymous character's love for Daisy Buchanan leads to tragic events in this commentary on the American Dream. Even if you've seen the Leonardo DiCaprio film version, the striking language of this classic makes it worth reading.

Charles Dickens has, of course, written dozens of classics, many of which are available for free on the Kindle. Great Expectations is one of his most interesting and accessible, with young orphan Pip's unrequited love for snooty Estella, and one of the most iconic figures in Dickens' works, the living cobweb Miss Havisham.

Kate Bush fans who've sung "Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home" will learn the full tale behind Catherine and Heathcliff's stormy love story set on the equally wild Yorkshire moors in Emily Brontë's classic tome Wuthering Heights from 1847.

Go old school crime fiction with The Early Classics of Agatha Christie. The set of two includes The Secret Adversary and The Mysterious Affairs at Styles, which introduces her legendary character Hercule Poirot.

Brick is the first in Conrad Jones' DI Braddock Books series, and follows the detectives of Liverpool's Major Investigation Team as they attempt to solve the unprovoked murder of a teenager as members of an organised crime family begin to topple.

While these are plays not prose, William Shakespeare: The Complete Collection does sit on the fiction side of the fiction/nonfiction divide. Including the iconic playwright's tragedies, comedies, romances, histories, and also his poetic works, this collection will keep you entranced for hours. Get stuck in at the deep end with Hamlet or Romeo & Juliet.

A classic work of American fiction, Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn shows you the deep South before the American Civil War through the eyes of the eponymous first person narrator.

Helen Rolfe's Valentine's Day at the Café at the End of the Pier is a short read that you can gobble up during your lunch break, as an introduction to the series about Jo and the characters who frequent the café in Salthaven-on-Sea her grandparents ask her to help run.