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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...

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 ...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

We're the rubbish kids, losers and orphans. Everyday we go out on to the Tip to sort rubbish for Mother Shelly.'For Sham, Fly Pie and his sister Ja...

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...

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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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...

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...