Caroline Lawrence March AD 80. In Rome, the Emperor Titus has announced that there will be a hundred days of games to open his new amphitheatre (now known as the...

Caroline Lawrence It's October AD 79. The arrival of a ragged man at the Geminus household sets in motion a series of events which take Flavia and her three friends...

Charles J Finger Atmospheric woodcuts illustrate this Newbery Award–winning collection of 19 South American folktales. Charles J. Finger heard the tales firsthand from native storytellers, whose fables of talking animals,...

Oliver Goldsmith The sweetness of a pastoral poem and the spice of a vivacious comedy mark the enduring charm of The Vicar of Wakefield. With artful skill and delicious humor...

Joseph Conrad With an Introduction and Notes by Hugh Epstein, Secretary of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain'Then the vision of an enormous town prented itself, of a monstrous...

Emanuel Litvinoff The first novel of the Faces of Terror Trilogy is set around the Siege of Sidney Street and the fermenting anarchism of East London. The novel describes youth...

John Galsworthy September 30, 1976 by William Heinemann

Frederick Baron Corvo One day George Arthur Rose, hack writer and minor priest, discovers that he has been picked to be Pope. He is hardly surprised and not in the...

RS Surtees Soapy Sponge's ruthless pursuit of his passion for fox-hunting at the expense of others, brings him into contact with a Dickensian gallery of observed characters, from Dukes to...

Dick Francis   Free choice? According to architect, engineer, and jobbing builder Lee Morris, there’s no such thing. Choice is preordained by personality, of that the young entrepreneur is sure....

Author: Rudyard Kipling First published in 1888, Plain Tales from the Hills was Kipling's first volume of prose fiction. Most of the stories it includes had already appeared in the Civil and Military...

Barbara ArtsonOdessa, Odessa follows the families of two sons from a proud lineage of rabbis and cantors in a shtetl near Odessa in western Russia.It begins as Henya, wife of...