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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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …

»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 …

»The Virgin and the Gipsy», written as a brief fiction titled by English novelist D.H. Lawrence, was posthumously released in 1930. Due to the spelling of "Gipsy" in the original and …

Time to leap into the Cortina as Sam Tyler and Gene Hunt roar back into action in a brand new installment of Life on Mars.DCI Gene Hunt plunges into the boxing underworld – and this time, the gloves …

»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 …

Discover a collection of fairy tales unlike the ones you»ve read before . . . Once upon a time, in the middle of winter, a King sat at a window and sewed. As he sewed and gazed out onto the landscap …