Fiction - General

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" delves into the moral decay of its protagonist, Dorian Gray, who remains youthful while his portrait ages, serving as a chilling allegory for the corrupting influence of vanity and hedonism in Victorian society."The...

A woman gets arrested for the murder of her friend based on flimsy evidence. Then the murdered woman returns and leaves solid evidence as well as hints with various people, including a hard-nosed detective and his solicitor friend, who finally put...

The people of San Angela had no idea Mill Roth left his cattle empire to a woman by the name of Hattie Stamps, the widow of Beaver Stamps, who was Mill’s oldest and best friend. Until she showed up claiming the Roth Empire everything was fine. Some of...

A scathing criticism of social climbing underlies this unsettling story by Frances Eleanor Trollope, sister-in-law to Anthony and daughter-in-law to Frances Milton Trollope. Published in 1876, A Charming Fellow is a serious exploration of a bitterly...

*The Top 5 Bestseller*Bestseller Lucy Coleman is back in the Cotswolds for the wedding we’ve all been waiting for. If you loved Lucy Coleman's bestselling Christmas at Lock-Keeper's Cottage, don't miss this!Imogen Tolliman and Gray Adams can’t wait to...

A Clergyman's Daughter is a 1935 novel by English author George Orwell. It tells the story of Dorothy Hare, the clergyman's daughter of the title, whose life is turned upside down when she suffers an attack of amnesia.It is Orwell's most formally...

One of the greatest satires in American literature, Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court begins when Hank Morgan, a skilled mechanic in a nineteenth-century New England arms factory, who is struck on the head during a quarrel and...

At a time when I needed a lift, this novel came into my life.' 5* Reader ReviewAmy Piper is in need of a bit of luck. She’s lost her confidence, her mojo and her way.But one thing she has never lost is her total love for her thirteen-year-old son...

'At a time when I needed a lift, this novel came into my life.' 5* Reader ReviewAmy Piper is in need of a bit of luck. She’s lost her confidence, her mojo and her way.But one thing she has never lost is her total love for her thirteen-year-old son...

Charles Dickens created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and...

Back in 1957, nine-year-old Zidra Vincent met Jim Cadwallader for the first time. Fourteen years later, their bond of friendship - forged during childhood in the beautiful coastal town of Jingera - is still strong. But is friendship all they dream of?...

Frankie Piccione is done running away from her responsibilities - for now, anyway. Two years after fleeing Westenbury with a shattered heart, it's time to return and take up her place on the board of the family business. Piccione's Pickles and...

‘The novel walks a line between comedy and wrenching sadness. It is fluently written and its depiction of domestic chaos … is all too recognisable’ Sunday TimesA Family Man tells the story of thirty one year old Matt Webster, who arrives home from...

A Girl of the Limberlost, a novel written by the American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter, was first published in August, 1909. The story takes place in Indiana, in and around the Limberlost Swamp, during the early 20th century. (Summary...

A Hero of Our Time is indeed a portrait, but not of one man. It is a portrait built up of all our generation's vices in full bloom. You will again tell me that a human being cannot be so wicked, and I will reply that if you can believe in the...

It was meant to be the experience of a lifetime, for Australian twin sisters Helen and Alex Dorian, to walk the famous Camino from Saint Jean Pied de Port in the French Basque country, to Santiago del Compostella in Spain. But Helen injures her leg on...

With stories of hidden treasure and secret chambers, past and present collide in Hannah Dennison's A Killer Ball at Honeychurch Hall.When antique dealer Kat Stanford stumbles upon the partially mummified body of a young woman in an abandoned wing at...

An Australian childrens' classic about life on a ranch around the same time of A Little Florida Lady, with a similarly plucky tomboy heroine. Also, like the latter story, expect some racial stereotyping of Asian and Aboriginal characters. (Summary by...

A Little Princess is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first published as a book in 1905. It is an expanded version of the short story "Sara Crewe: or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's", which was serialized in St. Nicholas Magazine from...

A newly married couple with a flair for the macabre buys a Queen Anne-styled manor that echoes their gloomy insides. Once the pair met and committed themselves, both knew there was no way to escape from the other—even in death.Conrad and Elizabeth...

Hidden away from the outside world, tucked in the corners of rolling hills, lies a monastery. Only open to the public during certain times of day that align with the monks’ strict schedule, a young girl, Mary Baptisia, and her parents volunteer to...

It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will entertain and enlighten you as few other books can. A novel, that leaves you yearning for more.A Moment of ClarityIn a small town, in the smallest county in the Florida panhandle, a...

Polly Milton, a 14-year-old country girl, visits her friend Fanny Shaw and her wealthy family in the city for the first time. Poor Polly is overwhelmed by the splendor at the Shaws' and their urbanized, fashionable lifestyles, fancy clothes and some...

A captivating tale about the wonders of wildlife and the trials of conservation. Wolf Vandengetz has the ideal post for an adventurous scientist, researching prides of lions. Then he gets a promotion. With a heavy heart, he leaves his fieldwork in the...