Jane Austen Written in 1814, Mansfield Park is one of Jane Austen's most complex and fascinating achievements. This is a story of richness of character over the flash of personality,...

Reader's Digest Earth's Great Natural A breathtaking photographic essay with impressive pictures of gemstones, precious metals, industrial ores and rocks, soils and chemicals with short explanatory texts that describe how...

Elizabeth Gaskell   This 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...

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...

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...

Frank Norris "I never truckled. I never took off the hat to Fashion and held it out for pennies. I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't...