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Bat Rider and the Cave of Oomba
On the planet of the mile-high Yumi trees, only a few lucky boys and girls may fly bats to the treetops to harvest the fruit. Matthew John w…
Francis Durbridge - The Tyler Mystery
When two young women are found murdered within a week of each other, Scotland Yard enlists the help of sleuthing crime writer Paul Temple to…
Francis Durbridge - The Kelby Affair
The great radio detective lives again in Paul Temple And The Kelby Affair. Returning from an author tour in America, Paul is met at the dock…
Moonskin
“Space is the cure to careless savagery, to stagnant two-party politics, to the fear that condemns visionary science to the dusty shelves of…
A Phantom Lover
A Phantom Lover is a supernatural novella by Vernon Lee (pseudonym of Violet Paget) first published in 1886. Set in a Kentish manor house, t…
A Man and His Unicorn
Vern was an ordinary college instructor and looking forward to spring break. But on the last day of classes and dreaming about a gorgeous ga…
Alice Dugdale
An ordinary village girl's plans for the future with her long-standing beau are threatened when he is seen to be an attractive prospect by a…
Riceyman Steps
Arnold Bennet's masterly novel is a gritty tale about a bookseller whose life and love of a woman are afflicted by miserliness. It is set in…
Nina Balatka
Nina Balatka is a poignant romance set against the backdrop of 19th-century Prague, where the lives of a Catholic woman and a Jewish man int…
An Eye for an Eye
A short but typical Trollope romance in which a young nobleman is torn between love for an impoverished Irish girl and the expectations of h…
Kipps
Arthur Kipps, an orphaned draper’s assistant of humble means, unexpectedly inherits a large sum of money and that is when all his troubles b…
The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
An anecdotal account of the journey undertaken by James Boswell and Samuel Johnson to the Scottish Highlands and the Hebrides Islands - Summ…
The Three Clerks
Romance and crime in the mid-19th century British Civil Service. In this early novel,Trollope draws on his own experiences as a junior clerk…
Love and Mr Lewisham
Love and Mr Lewisham is a witty exploration of the complexities of love, ambition, and societal expectations in late 19th century England. H…
Pictures from Italy
Dickens takes time off his novels to give an account of travels which he and his family undertook in France and Italy. There are vivid descr…
The Man Who Was Thursday
Subtitled by the author as a "Nightmare", this is a fantasy, comic thriller about a plot to end the world by a group of anarchists…
Typhoon
A seafaring novella in which those manning ships are pitted against the forces of nature. A typical Conrad exploration of human beings under…
England, My England
A book of ten short stories, written with Lawrence's typical sensibility to and awareness of social mores, set around the period of the Firs…
A Call
The story of an English gentleman's relationship with two women. Ford's themes are reminiscent of Henry James: the tensions between desire a…
The Hole in the Wall
A lively story about a pub, and those who ran it, at the end of the 19th century in the East End Dockland of London, with its poverty-strick…