Adult Classics

The first title in Arthur Ransome's classic series, originally published in 1930: for children, for grownups, for anyone captivated by the world of...

Son of a bankrupt landowner, Frank Gresham is intent on marrying his beloved Mary Thorne, despite her illegitimacy and apparent poverty. Frank's am...

Set in the Scottish Highlands after the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, orphaned David Balfour, tricked by his miserly uncle, survives attempted murder...

Lambert Strether is sent by his wealthy fiancee, Mrs Newsome, to Paris to bring home her son Chad who is required to take charge of the family busi...

The five children find a cantankerous sand fairy, a psammead, in a gravel pit. Every day 'It' will grant each of them a wish that lasts until sunse...

The Hound of the Baskervilles is the classic detective chiller. It features the world's greatest detective, Sherlock Holmes, in his most challengin...

Barchester Towers (1857) is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire, the work in which, after a ten years' apprenticeship, Trollope finally...

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

South London, 1932. Times are hard for ten-year old Lizzie Collins and her family. With her father dead, it is up to her mother, grandmother and au...

An unexpected windfall gives Peggie Cartwright the lucky break she deserves. At last she can save her family from financial ruin. Ever since Cyrus ...

Both Kirsty and Craig Nicholson sacrifice lovers to hold their marriage together for the sake of their crippled son. For a time all seems well unti...

John, Susan, Titty and Roger sail their boat, Swallow, to a deserted island for a summer camping trip. Exploring and playing sailors is an adventur...