Best-Loved Short Stories
Evan Bates
Offers a selection of short stories by such authors as O. Henry, Gustave Flaubert, D.H. Lawrence, and James Joyce.
The Redeemer
Jo Nesbo
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Suite Française
Irène Némirovsky
In June 1940 France fell to the Nazis. The effects of this momentous event on the lives of ordinary Parisians and the inhabitants of a small rural community...
Nothing Lasts Forever
Maureen Lee
Brodie Logan's seemingly idyllic life with her once-loving husband is suddenly turned upside down - so she moves to a big shared house in Liverpool, and there meets...
Lime Street Blues
Maureen Lee
In the 1960s, Liverpool, and the glamorous world of music, is the place to be. So, when Sean, Lachlan and Max form The Merseysiders and Jeannie and Rita...
Remarkable Creatures
Tracy Chevalier
In the early 19th century, a windswept beach along the English coast brims with fossils for those with the eye. From the moment she's struck by lightning as...
The Postmistress
Sarah Blake
It is 1940, and bombs fall nightly on London. In the thick of the chaos is young American radio reporter Frankie Bard. She huddles close to terrified strangers...
Handle with Care
Jodi Picoult
Charlotte O'Keefe's beautiful, much-longed-for, adored daughter Willow is born with osteogenesis imperfecta - a very severe form of brittle bone disease. If she slips on a crisp packet...
Fathers and Sons
Richard Madeley
Richard Madeley is fascinated by the speed of change in family life and how being a father has changed since the time of his father and grandfather. In...
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel
''Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks'...
The Help
Kathryn Stockett
Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver... There's Aibileen, raising her seventeenth...
The Secret Life of Bees
Sue Monk Kidd
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's...
Falling Angels
Tracy Chevalier
A sumptuous new look for the bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring. 1901, the year of Queen Victoria's death. The two graves stood next to each...
Sophia's Secret
Susanna Kearsley
When bestselling author Carrie McClelland visits the windswept ruins of Slains Castle, she is enchanted by the stark and beautiful Scottish landscape. The area is strangely familiar to...
The Last Kingdom (Alfred the Great 1)
Bernard Cornwell
The first book in a brand new series, The Last Kingdom is set in England during the reign of King Alfred. Uhtred is an English boy, born into...
Three Cups of Tea
Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
'Here we drink three cups of tea to do business; the first you are a stranger, the second you become a friend, and the third, you join our...
The Glass Lake
Maeve Binchy
Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry,...
Lights Out Liverpool
Maureen Lee
As Britain stands alone against a monstrous enemy, the inhabitants of Pearl Street face hardship and heartbreak with courage and humour. The war touches each of them in...
Tuesdays With Morrie
Mitch Albom
Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you...
The Other Side of the Dale
Gervase Phinn
This is a warm, funny and mostly true account of the first year that Gervase Phinn spent as a schools' inspector in North Yorkshire. His brilliantly portrayed cast...
The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl
Roald Dahl
This is a complete collection of the superb short stories which have appeared in: 'Over To You', 'Kiss Kiss', 'Someone Like You', 'Switch Bitch' and eight further stories:...
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