H. G. Wells (1866-1946), alongside Jules Verne, has been given the title 'Father of Science Ficti...

This delightful picture book, first published in 1903, still enchants its readers and listeners w...

This edition gives a side-by-side parallel translation of Molière 's Tartuffe using Curtis Hidden...

This is a famous little book - invaluable for writers and one of the most influential books writt...

Three of Keynes' classic works in a single volume.

The White Cliffs is a novel in verse, the story of an American girl who falls in love with an Eng...

The Private Life of Helen of Troy

Jim Kjelgaard wrote more than forty extremely popular novels for children. He incorporated into h...

Dr. Thorndyke is one of the best creations of the Golden Age of British detective fiction. He is ...

The Soil and Health, a classic of organic farming, is an essential introduction to organic garden...

The Story of San Michele

Set in England in the 1920's the story is about a father's love, devotion and sacrifice for his b...

'The Man in the Queue' is the first case for Scotland Yard Inspector Grant who was to become the ...

In the second of this wonderful series, Johnny, literature's most hospitable crow, further improv...

Lucy Maud Montgomery was a Canadian author and is best known for her novels, the first of which w...

This book offers easy to follow directions for making all the useful and ornamental knots that ar...

A collection of short stories by Arthur Machen, one of the modern masters of supernatural and hor...

The Scarlet Pimpernel appears in a play and a series of novels and short stories by Baroness Emmu...

A sequel to extremely popular, largely autobiographical 'Diary of a Provincial Lady,' by E. M Del...

This is the definitive reference book for anatomical drawing. Comic Drawing Artists and Fine Arti...

One of the earliest scientific works on all aspects of compost and manure. Still of value today, ...

One of the best novels by Marjorie Rawlings, author of 'The Yearling.'It is a poignant tale about...

Trent's Last Case is in fact the first novel in which the sleuth Philip Trent makes his first app...

A collection of short works, the first, 'The Altruist in Politics,' being a commencement address ...

Rafael Sabatini is a master storyteller. The Daily Telegraph described him thus: 'One wonders if ...

This delightful children's storybook, written in 1952 by Carley Dawson, comes complete with the r...

Dorothy Sayers' much loved 'Catholic Tales and Christian Songs'together with two theological work...

Harold Innis (1894 - 1952) was a brilliant original thinker and professor of political economy at...

The Penny Nichols series consists of four titles: 1. Penny Nichols Finds a Clue (1936) 2. Penny N...

A complete edition of a Danish classic literary masterpiece.Books I to IV: I. Boyhood; II. Appren...

Josephine Tey wrote ingenious crime novels with utterly believable characters, beautifully crafte...

Josephine Tey wrote ingenious crime novels with utterly believable characters, beautifully crafte...

Memories Dreams Reflections

This novel, set in January and February 1793, follows on from 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'.

A novel exploring the need to change and adapt to new life circumstances.

This volume contains the Captain Blood novel, plus the series of short stories - Captain Blood Re...

Number 6 in the Billabong series, 'Captain Jim' takes place in World War I Enland. Norah and her ...

Hilaire Belloc's misbehaving children suffer all manner of grisly ends in these cautionary tales ...

This novel, set in January and February 1793, follows on from 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'.

Lester del Rey (1915 - 1993) was a renowned American Science Fiction writer in the Golden Age of ...

Walter Chrysler established the Chrysler Corporation from the embers of the Maxwell-Chambers Auto...

'The Mechanical Properties of Wood' (fully illustrated) was written primarily for students of for...

'One cannot help but be struck by the degree to which he (George Orwell) became, in Henry James's...

The Penny Nichols series consists of four titles: 1. Penny Nichols Finds a Clue (1936) 2. Penny N...

A sequel to extremely popular, largely autobiographical 'Diary of a Provincial Lady,' by E. M Del...

Carl Sandburg had three daughters and he loved telling them irrepressible, zany tales. He dislike...

In the third of L. Leslie Brooke's fantastic Johnny Crow books, many more animals come to see Joh...

Throughout her life, Virginia Woolf worked and reworked short story ideas, trying to encapsulate ...