Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 
Penelope’s Progress Being Such Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Penelope Hamilton As Relate to Her Experiences in Scotland 

To mark the publication of Stop What You”re Doing and Read This!, a collection of essays celebrating reading, Vintage Classics are releasing 12 limited edition themed ebook ”bundles”, to tempt rea …

Like all of Hardy’s work, The Return of the Native (1878) is passionate and controversial, with themes and sympathies beyond what a good Victorian would ever admit. A modern and honest novel of …

The Rover Boys in Business, also countable in The Rover Boys Series for Young Americans, was a well-known children’s book series authored by Edward Stratemeyer using the pen name Arthur M. Winfield. …

Charles Dickens died half way through writing The Mystery of Edwin Drood , and ever since speculation has been rife as to how the tale might have unfolded. For this intriguing two-part adaptation for …

”The novel has everything: absorbing melodrama, with a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics” The Times When Nicholas”s father dies he, his mother and sister are left penniless. To ea …

A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner”s central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas – a man doomed, deracinated and alone – wanders the Deep South in search of an …

Avant-garde composer Albert Sanger lives in a ramshackle chalet in the Swiss Alps, surrounded by his ”Circus” of assorted children, admirers and a slatternly mistress. The family and their home lif …

”She has many rare and charming qualities, but Sobriety is not one of them.” A selection of Austen”s dark and hilarious early writings – featuring murder, drunkenness, perjury, theft, poisoning, w …

”A tour de force of writing and intelligence” A.S. Byatt Discover one of the greatest first world war novels. Christopher Tietjens has long loved the beautiful young suffragette Valentine, but the …

”Perhaps his greatest work. The great novel of London: dark, wise, unsentimental” William Boyd WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NICK HORNBY John Harmon returns to England after years in exile to claim his i …