Preloved Books

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her fami...

Dickens's first novel - with its creative use of the old tradition of graphic satire - is an episodic series of adventures featuring the noble Mr P...

The fountain was not working. Nothing unusual in that...'Marcus Didius Falco and his laddish friend Petronius find their local fountain has been bl...

Smaug Certainly Looked Fast A, When Bilbo Peeped Once More From The Entrance. He Was Just About To Step Out On To The Floor When He Caught A Sudden...

A young American aid volunteer, Ricky Colenso, is brutally murdered in former Yugoslavia. His grandfather, the Canadian billionaire Steven Edmond, ...

Why didn't you tell me there wasdanger in men-folk?Why didn't you warn me?”Tess Durbeyfield, the young, graceful and virtuous daughter of a poor pe...

Author William Harris is spending the fag-end of the season at Antibes finishing his first attempt at historical biography, but he becomes more and...

Sergeant Amy Callan and Lieutenant Caroline Cook had a lot in common. Both high flying army women, both victims of sexual harassment, they left the...

This perennially popular book was cited by Karl Marx in Das kapital to illustrate economic theory, but it is readers of all ages over the last 280 ...

From humble beginnings, Toby Temple becomes a superstar. He knows what he wants – and he always makes sure he gets what he wants. He is the world's...

During five days in the midst of a hot, steamy Louisiana summer, the lives of a colorful cast of characters intertwine in a series of public, priva...

When the NSAs invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletche...

While the Reverend Maybold creates a furore among the village's musicians with his decision to abolish the church's traditional 'string choir' and ...

The time: 200 years after man's first landing on the Moon. There are permanent populations established on the Moon, Venus, and Mars. Outer space in...

His mission: Kill President Charles de Gaulle His code name: Jackel His price: Half a million dollars His demand: Total secrecy, even from his empl...

Jane Eyre remains one of the most widely read of English Classics. In this novel, Charlotte Bronte invented a romantic tale of passion and thrill a...

Sons and Lovers is considered to be D.H. Lawrence’s first mature novel. What is unique about this novel is its profound psychological insights into...

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isnt on it - even though...

OPRAH WINFREY LOVED THIS BOOK SO MUCH SHE ASKED JOHN GRAY TO TAKE OVER AN ENTIRE EPISODE OF HER SHOW TO TALK ABOUT IT! This personal development bo...

A practical guide for improving communication within relationships, helping both sexes get what they want from love and friendship. The author enco...

'Don't you think there is a certain resemblance between the mystery of the Mass and what I am trying to do? ...To give people some kind of intellec...

Love in a Blue Time is a brilliant new collection of stories by the bestselling author of The Buddha of Suburbia.This time, Hanif Kureishi's subjec...

Distant lands, the beautiful gardens of splendid palaces, the sea, the jungle and its beasts, even the desert, are the exotic settings for these st...

This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is perhaps the greatest adventure in all of English literature. Fleeing from pirat...