Elizabeth GaskellThis is a tale of Dives and Lazarus, of the comfortable pinnacle and the miserable base of the Victorian social pyramid. It is told, however, without simplification and without...

PL TraversAn extraordinary English nanny blows in on the East Wind with her parrot-headed umbrella and magic carpetbag and introduces her charges, Jane and Michael, to some delightful people and...

PL Travers 'When Jane and Michael Banks draw up an advertisement for a nanny, Mary Poppins arrives on a gust of the East Wind and slides up the bannister, changing...

PL Travers 'Pulled down from the clouds at the end of a kite string, Mary Poppins is back. In Mary’s care, the Banks children meet the King of the Castle...

PL Travers Discover the joy and wonder of Mary Poppins in the classic adventures!The original and classic stories available now in all-new luxurious livery in time for the release of...

PL Travers Things happen to the Banks children when they go to the park with Mary Poppins. Strange things, funny things, unexpected things: nothing is ever straightforward with Mary Poppins...

Yigael Yadin The excavation from 1963 to 1965 of the Judean desert rock-fortress of Masada, has taken its place as one of the most exciting and significant archaeological events of...

Roald Dahl“The Trunchbull” is no match for Matilda!Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there...

EM Forster"The work of an exceptional artist working close to the peak of his powers."—Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, New York Times Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this...

Christa Wolf Medea is among the most notorious women in Greek tragedy - a woman who sacrifices her own children to her jealous rage. In this novel, Wolf explodes the...

Meet Kirsten: An American Girl(American Girl: Kirsten #1)Janet Beeler ShawIn the summer of 1854, after a long & dangerous journey on a small ship, Kirsten Larson & her family arrive...

Meet Molly: An American Girl(American Girl: Molly #1)Valerie TrippFor Molly McIntire, life seems full of change. It's 1944 and the world is at war. Her father is far away caring...