Adult Classics

The three novels which make up The Forsyte Saga chronicle the ebbing social power of the commercial upper-middle class Forsyte family between 1886 ...

An exciting new edition of the complete works of Shakespeare with these features: Illustrated with photographs from New York Shakespeare Festival p...

Gulliver has many adventures as he first visits the island of Lilliput, where people are only 6 inches high, and then Brobdingnag, where the people...

A king and some unexpected companions embark on a voyage that will take them beyond all known lands. As they sail farther and farther from charted ...

Games, lessons, quarrels and tricks all form part of a lively term, but the biggest event of all is the Fifth Form pantomime, written, acted and pr...

Twelve year old Darrell Rivers is travelling by train to her new boarding school - Malory Towers - for her first year. She quickly befriends severa...

Set in wartime London, Westwood tells the story of Margaret Steggles, a plain bookish girl whose mother has told her that she is not the type that ...

trollope conceived the story of the novel in salisbury while wandering round the cathedral one midsummer eveing in the 1850s . Set in the world of ...

Gaskell's last novel, widely considered her masterpiece, follows the fortunes of two families in nineteeth century rural England. At its core are f...

Join Katy for fun and splendid times Katy Carr intends to be beautiful and beloved and as sweet as an angel one day. For now, though, her hair is f...

After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feathered shuttlecock' to be swatted back and forth by ...

In this much-loved children's classic first published in 1906, the comfortable lives of three well-mannered siblings are greatly altered when, one ...

Trollope's 1875 tale of a great financier's fraudulent machinations in the railway business, and his daughter's ill-use at the hands of a grasping ...

Lucy and Edmund, with their odious cousin Eustace in tow, journey on board the gallant ship the Dawn Treader to the Eastern Islands in search of th...

Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them ...

Moll Flanders, born and abandoned in Newgate prison, is forced to make her own way in life. She applies herself with gusto to husband-hunting, comm...

As a scandalized Victorian society looks on, Alice Vavasor, Lady Glencora, and the Widow Greenow continue their romantic entanglements with disrepu...

Katy Carr is the longest girl that was ever seen. She is all legs and elbows, and angles and joints. She tears her dress every day, hates sewing an...

After the death of her parents, Mary Lennox is brought back from India as a forlorn and unwanted child to live in her uncle's great lonely house on...

PRIDE NAD PREJUDICE: A delightful novel about "how girls catch husbands. Listen in to find out: What will happen to sister Lydia? Will the arrogant...

IS A Heartwarming portrayal of COUNTRY LIFE no close of the 19th CENTURY. This story of three closely related Oxfordshire communities - a hamlet. t...

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Welcome to the Island of Struay, home of one of the best-loved characters in children's books and as seen on TV - Katie Morag McColl! Discover some...

Who can she turn to when life gets tough? April 1941, Hull. Nurse Marie Larsen has grown used to the challenges of keeping Hull Royal Infirmary ru...