Family & Relationships
Five Little Peppers at School
The Five Little Peppers are off to school - Joel and Davie at a boys' boarding school, Polly, Phronsie and Ben at home. At first the storyli…
The Randolphs
The Randolphs continues the journey of the Randolph family, picking up shortly after the events of Household Puzzles. This Christian fiction…
Little Fishers and Their Nets
Thirteen year old Nettie Decker is called home after having lived with another family for 7 years, to find that her father is a drunkard and…
Margy's Queer Inheritance
Helen, Margy and Rose Blythe, displaced from their family home in Long Island, have struggled to carve out a new life in their tiny apartmen…
Cunning Workmen
Miss Cora Parkhurst is an irresponsible and flighty Sunday school teacher for a group of young ladies. She has simply no time to prepare the…
A Girl of the Limberlost
Set in the Limberlost swamp of Indiana, A Girl of the Limberlost follows Elnora Comstock through struggles and triumphs as she seeks educati…
Daddy-Long-Legs
Jerusha Abbott was brought up at the John Grier Home, an old-fashioned orphanage. The children were wholly dependent on charity and had to w…
The Rose Child
The Rose Child tells the enchanting tale of a young girl living in the picturesque village of Wildbach, whose passion for roses mirrors her …
The Vicar of Wakefield
Published in 1766, 'The Vicar of Wakefield' was Oliver Goldsmith's only novel. It was thought to have been sold to the publisher for £…
Children of the Ghetto
In this 1892 novel of London's Jewish East End, Israel Zangwill sets the apparently irrational and decidedly indecorous religious practices …
Emily of New Moon
Orphaned Emily Starr is sent to live at New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island with her aunts Elizabeth and Laura Murray and her Cousin Jimmy…
The Heart of Philura
Once again Mrs Kingsley does not shy away from the highs and lows of life in the quickly changing world of the 1900s…the ageing women workin…
Tenterhooks
The second of the 'Little Ottleys' trilogy, an Edwardian comedy of manners. Several years have passed since the events in 'Love's Shadow', b…
Eight Cousins
This is the story of Rose Campbell, a rich but lonely and sickly girl who has been recently orphaned and sent to live with her maiden aunts.…
One Commonplace Day
A temperance lecturer misses his train and ends up attending a town picnic. It was a common enough picnic on a commonplace day. But the disc…
The Superstition of Divorce
This short book was written in 1920, and in it Chesterton, with his usual wit and incisive logic, presents a series of articles defending ma…
The Railway Children
Roberta, Peter and Phyllis are suddenly yanked out of their comfortable lives and removed to live in the country with only their mother and …
Elsie's Widowhood
Elsie's Widowhood continues the poignant journey of Elsie Dinsmore as she navigates the profound changes brought by the loss of her beloved …
The Duke's Children
In the last of the six Palliser novels, the sudden death of his wife, Lady Glencora, leaves Plantagenet Palliser, the Duke of Omnium, findin…
The Green Mirror
Three generations of the Trenchard family, ruled over by the indomitable Mrs Trenchard, live together in comfortable domesticity until Kathe…