Patrick WhiteElizabeth Hunter, an ex-socialite in her eighties, has a mystical experience during a summer storm in Sydney which transforms all her relationships: her existence becomes charged with a meaning...

Jonathan Miller and David Pelham An easy to understand, pop up book for teaching the facts of life for children. October 1, 1984 by Viking Adult OS

Edmund Spenser  The Faerie Queene was the first epic in English and one of the most influential poems in the language for later poets from Milton to Tennyson. Dedicating his work...

Daoma WinstonA saga of the joys, tragedies, loves, villanies, and heroics of four generations involved with the Fall River Line, a seagoing passenger service between New York and Boston

Author: Joyce Carol Oates It is 1950 and, after a disastrous honeymoon night, Ariah Erskine's young husband throws himself into the roaring waters of Niagara Falls. Ariah, "the Widow Bride...

FA HayekHayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on...

JRR TolkienOne Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkeness bind themIn ancient times the Rings of Power...

Ellis Peters A MORBID TASTE FOR BONES. In 1137 the head of Shrewsbury Abbey decided to acquire the remains of St Winifred for his Benedictine order. Brother Cadfael is part...

Mitch Albom 'All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time...'On his eighty-third birthday, Eddie, a lonely war veteran, dies in a tragic accident trying to...

Enid BlytonConnie is stuck up and bossy, so when she comes to visit, Joe, Beth and Frannie are fed up. But they won't let her stop them having fun with...

John GalsworthyFollowing her marriage to Michael Mont, Fleur Forsyte throws herself into the Roaring 20s with the rest of London and takes life as it comes. But her marriage is...

John GalsworthyThe Silver Spoon is the fifth volume in The Forsyte Chronicles, one of the most popular and enduring works of 20th-century literature. In creating the many extraordinary members of...