The five original fairy tales included in this volume were first published by Davis Nutt in 1888. Although it is said that Wilde wrote them for his two young sons, the author himself claimed they w...
This story of two spoilt and lonely children, whose happiness is regained as they bring to life a neglected garden, has become the best-loved of all Mrs. Burnett's books, but it did not acquire uni...
'He is the Napoleon of crime, Watson ... He sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them'
Baron Munchausen’s absurd adventures have entertained adults and children alike for more than two centuries. First published in England in 1785, his traveller’s tales soon became as wel...
The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. Whe...
Scottish Stories is a treasury of great writing from a richly literary land, where the short story has flourished for over two centuries. Here are chilling supernatural stories from Robert Louis St...
Here are libraries modest, mobile, mystical (Borges of course) and magical (Helen Oyeyemi's enchanting 'Books and Roses'); public and private, provincial and prestigious. Little that happen in Eliz...
'By turns savvy, witty and achingly sad, this is a novelist at the top of his game.' Mail on Sunday Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown, Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant and a...
Whether it was Churchill rousing the British to take up arms or the dream of Martin Luther King, Fidel Castro inspiring the Cuban revolution or Barack Obama on Selma and the meaning of America, spe...
A beautiful hardback edition of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel, from the great Toni Morrison.Sethe is now miles away from Sweet Home - the farm where she was kept as a slave for many ...
A beautiful hardback edition of the famously terrifying ghost story, The Woman in Black, together with four other spine-chilling tales in one beautiful volume.Arthur Kipps, a junior sol...
This is our Planet Earth. From the highest peaks to the mysterious seafloor, almost every habitat has been impacted by humans.In this beautifully illustrated guide, you'll see our inter...
I Love Russia takes us to places that non-Russians have never seen and brings us voices we have never heard. It is Elena Kostyuchenko’s courageous attempt to document Russia as experienced by...
Porzucona przez ukochanego, Cretego Asgara, Timoney George zgadza się na zaaranżowane przez wuja małżeństwo ze znacznie starszym mężczyzną. Dzień przed planowanym ślubem, w wigilię Bożego Narodzeni...
Abigail to uzdolniona matematyczka. Kocha książki, a zamiast haftować, obserwuje gwiazdy. Ojciec, wpływowy senator, zabiera ją na wszystkie bale, licząc, że córka pozna mężczyznę, któ...
Panny Wilkins, bogate Amerykanki, zostały wysłane do Anglii, by dobrze wyjść za mąż. Dwie odnalazły tu miłość, ale Violet zniechęca wszystkich zalotników. Jej pasją jest fotografia, marzy o ...
Lucy zarabia na życie, ucząc muzyki. Poznany w niezwykłych okolicznościach lord Max Burnham składa jej korzystną ofertę. Chce, by Lucy dyskretnie ustaliła, z kim potajemnie flirtuje jego przyrodnia...
AModelka Mia Forde bierze udział w pokazie biżuterii najbardziej znanego salonu jubilerskiego w Paryżu należącego do Daniela Devilliersa. Uznała, że to najlepszy sposób, by dotrzeć do ...
Georgie przygotowuje wykwintną kolację dla księcia Abbasa Husseina, który właśnie kupił londyński hotel, stając się tym samym jej szefem. Gdy stawia przed nim na stole kolejne danie i ma zam...
AMary Jones w zastępstwie swojej szefowej idzie na kolację biznesową z Erikiem Ridgemontem. Żałuje, że się zgodziła, bo Ridgemont od pierwszej chwili budzi w niej niechęć i lęk. Zupełnie inne...