Hombre & Three Ten to Yuma

<p>A remote stage-coach station is closing down and a small group of travellers are thrown together on the last wagon out: the mysterious Doctor Favor and his wife, a traumatised girl, a brutal stranger called Braden, the station manager, the sharp-eyed young narrator and John Russell, known simply as ''Hombre''. The reader can be quietly confident that some of these travellers will not be reaching their destination alive.<br><br>This superb Western, published in 1961, was one of the novels that made Elmore Leonard''s reputation as someone who had single-handedly revived the genre. It was made into a film starring Paul Newman.<br><br>Also included is Leonard''s celebrated short story ''Three-Ten to Yuma''.</p>