Adult Classics

A wonderful retelling of Shakespeare's thrilling tale of love torn apart by history. With notes on Shakespeare and the Globe theatre and Love and D...

The four Pevensies help Caspian battle Miraz and ascend his rightful throne NARNIA... the land between the lamp-post and the castle of Cair Paravel...

"The Children's Golden Library " : He picked up a clear pine shingle that lay in moon light, took a little fragment of red keel out of his pocket, ...

A classic Enid Blyton school series with timeless appeal - in new adventures by Anne Digby. Elizabeth longs to star in the school play, so she know...

They say Aslan is on the move. Perhaps he has already landed, whispered the Beaver. Edmund felt a sensation of mysterious horror. Peter felt brave ...

The girls are in a higher form now. This year there is the tension of exams for the first time, but there is all the fun of the summer term as well...

Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is an audacious rete...

A Christmas Carol is a novella by English author Charles Dickens. It was first published by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. It tells the st...

Digory let out a scream. "What's happened to Polly?" "Congratulate me, my dear boy," said Uncle Andrew, rubbing his hands. "My experiment has succe...

Best known for the 'Mowgli' stories, Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set...

In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Crac...

When Cyril, Anthea, Robert and Jane find the Psammead, a magical sand fairy, in a pet shop in London, they have no idea that they are about to emba...

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

"Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it." Transcending time and place, Anna Sewell's m...

“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wo...

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...

First published in serial form in Dickens's "Household Worlds", this novel centres around an early Victorian country town at a crucial moment of tr...

Candide, or Optimism (1759) written by Voltaire, the shining star of the French Enlightenment, is a biting, hilarious and frequently outrageous sat...

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...

While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to ...

Wordsworth Classics covers a huge list of beloved works of literature in English and translations. This growing series is rigorously updated, with ...

A novel of serendipity, of fortunes won and lost, and of the spectre of imprisonment that hangs over all aspects of Victorian society, Charles Dick...

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...