Romance
Heart of the World
H. Rider Haggard wrote Heart of the World in 1895 and it tells of the search for a secret and hidden Mayan civilization living in a long los…
The Dead Secret
The Dead Secret by Wilkie Collins explores the heavy burden of secrets and the choices that shape our lives. At the heart of the story is Sa…
Aurora Floyd
Aurora Floyd, the daughter of a rich banker and an actress, could not have had a better start: back from a finishing school in Paris, she is…
War and Peace
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir") is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy,…
The Carved Cupboard
Agatha, Gwen, Clare and Elfie have always been told that they will inherit their aunt's house. But when their aunt dies, she leaves it all t…
War and Peace
War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir”) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, firs…
Pride and Prejudice
Pride and Prejudice is a keenly observed exploration of love, class, and social expectations in early 19th-century England. At its heart is …
Fenton's Quest
Fenton's Quest follows the journey of Gilbert Fenton, a skilled businessman from London, who finds himself captivated by a beautiful woman f…
Miss or Mrs.?
Natalie Graybrooke is in love with her cousin Launcelot Linzie, but engaged to Mr. Turlington, an older man who covets her fortune and whom …
Sense and Sensibility
This is a story of the English moneyed class and its eternal struggle for creating “sense and sensibility” in its world. A potential marriag…
Green Mansions
"Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest" is a narration of his life story by Abel, a Venezuelan, to a comrade. Once a we…
Pauline's Passion and Punishment
Before she wrote Little Women and Little Men, Louisa, writing under the pseudonym A.M. Barnard, had this `blood and thunder' thriller (as sh…
Ramona
Set in Old California in the wake of the Mexican-American War, Ramona is two stories at once. It is the story of the love between a part-Nat…
The Upas Tree
Ronald West has a brilliant idea for his next novel, but to do it right, he wants to spend the next six months tramping around central Afric…
The Patrician
The book revolves around the story of two love affairs. Miltoun (an aspiring politician) proposes to Mrs Audrey Noel, only to find that she …
Ann Veronica
Ann Veronica was a controversial book detailing the development of a naive school girl into a "New Woman". When it was published, …
The Tale of Genji
The Tale of Genji (Genji Monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the …
The Pretty Lady
‘The Pretty Lady’ is considered to be one of Bennett's most revealing and under-rated works. It is the story of a French prostitute, Christi…
To Let
‘The Forsyte Saga’ is the story of a wealthy London family stretching from the eighteen-eighties until the nineteen-twenties.To Let is the t…
Black Heart and White Heart
Black Heart and White Heart transports listeners to the tumultuous era of King Cetywayo, where love and cultural conflict intertwine. This p…