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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...

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

All Chloe ever dreams of is becoming a pop star. It's not just that she wants to be famous, she wants to share her talent. When she gets an auditio...

Cynthia Moon is an average working girl until the editor of her magazine assigns her an article on precocious children. Then she meets Philip, aged...

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...

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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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...

I write this sitting in the kitchen sink is the first line of a novel about love, sibling rivalry and a bohemian existence in a crumbling castle in...

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 ...

Following a terrible storm, seven-year-old Lottie is rescued from a shipwreck local Cornishman, Arnie Lanroska. Her clothing suggests she comes fr...

The gentle women of Cranford go about their quiet lives expecting nothing to happen to them, and adhering to their own rather eccentric set of rule...

One of Thomas Hardy's most powerful works, The Return of the Native centers famously on Egdon Heath, the wild, haunted Wessex moor that D. H. Lawre...

Dr. Carr's mind is firmly made up. Katy and her little sister Clover are to spend a year away at boarding school. A strange place, far from home, b...

For Oxford, the arrival of twenty-seven American tourists is nothing out of the ordinary... until one of their number is found dead in Room 310 at ...

Set against the French and Indian siege of Fort William Henry in 1757, this title recounts the story of two sisters, Cora and Alice Munro, daughter...