It is 1922, and in a hushed south London villa life is about to be transformed, as genteel widow Mrs Wray and her discontented daughter Frances are obliged to take in lodgers. Lilian and Leonard Ba...
Mallory Quinn has had enough of playing it safe. As a nurse and devoted daughter, she takes care of everyone but herself. And as the local good girl, she's expected to date Mr. Right. But for once ...
Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, ...
"Nastrojowy romans obyczajowy o prawie do kochania, sile pożądania i obowiązku, rozgrywający się na barwnym tle angielskiej wsi. Miranda i David przeprowadzają się z dziećmi z Londynu do piękn...
The hotel was old, run-down. But to Swiss-born hotelier Hugues Martin, it is a rough diamond tucked away on a quiet New York City street. So Hugues scrapes together everything he has to purchase th...
Introduction and Notes by Henry Claridge, Senior Lecturer, School of English, University of Kent at Canterbury.This is a troubling story of crime, sin, guilt, punishment and expiation, ...
The hotel was old, run-down. But to Swiss-born hotelier Hugues Martin, it is a rough diamond tucked away on a quiet New York City street. So Hugues scrapes together everything he has to purchase th...
After following the advice from a manual called "How to Meet and Marry Mr Right", Jane learns that in love there is neither pattern nor promise. The Girls' Guide To Hunting and Fishing is...
Moving, ribald and semi-autobiographical, Lives of Girls and Women is the only novel from Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureThe only novel from bestselling author Alic...
Harry Morgan was hard - the classic Hemingway hero - rum-running, gun-running and man-running from Cuba to the Florida Keys in the Depression.He ran risks, too, from stray coastguard bu...
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing "A la recherche du temps perdu". It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by ...
8.45 P.M. Realise there have been so many times in my life when have fantasised about going to a scan with Mark or Daniel: just not both at the same time.Before motherhood, before marri...
Angela's back on home turf - and in her biggest romantic scrape yet...Angela Clark has fallen in love with New York - and it's starting to love her back. But when she's summoned home to England, sh...
The authors of Rosemary's Baby tells the story of Joanna, who moves to the small town of Stepford with her family. The men in the town have their own club - quite soon Joanna is aware of the fact t...
When Barry Fairweather dies unexpectedly in his early forties, the little town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbe...
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) spent the last fourteen years of his life writing "A la recherche du temps perdu". It is an intimate epic, an excavation of the self, and a comedy of manners by ...
Nowa guwernantka przybywa do dużej rezydencji, by opiekować się dwojgiem małych dzieci. Wkrótce potem następuje seria drobnych, ale dziwnych wydarzeń. Kobieta, próbując znaleźć odpowi...
Sparkling, darkly humorous tales of high society, playboys, courtesans, peasants, sex and savagery in nineteenth-century France, from the father of the short story.
A thrilling account of English history's missing women during the dark days leading up to the Civil War. With appeal to fans of Philippa Gregory and Suzannah Dunn.
American English During the Great Depression in the United States, and after the loss of their farm in Oklahoma, the Joad family is faced with a journey of more than one thousand miles to Californi...