Sitting on a California beach at summer's end, Jane Marsh thought back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie. She remembered not only the heather-covered hills, her grandmother and how she had secretly dreamed of marrying...

There are millions of stories in the city - some magical, some tragic, others terror-filled or triumphant. Jonah Kirk's story is all of those things as he draws readers into his life in the city as a young boy, introducing his...

Two young children, cousins Dicky and Emmeline Lestrange, and a galley cook survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific and are stranded on a lush tropical island. The cook, kindly old salt Paddy Button, assumes the responsibility for...

Daredevil ex-RAF pilot, Edwin Cruse, buys a Hercules aeroplane for a mere ten thousand dollars. It is however, awkwardly placed for collection - on an iceberg in the Antarctic! Cruse, and others of less honest disposition, set out to...

Jane Priddle, a proper young Englishwoman, has lived a sheltered, genteel life. In 1897, she is offered a life-changing opportunity: she will travel to Canada's northwest frontier to search for young Billie Thomm. Surviving in the...

In 1926 the Soderbjerg brothers, Ray and Roy, plunge into radio and found Station WLT (With Lettuce and Tomato) in order to rescue their failing restaurant. A comic yet poignant novel from one of America's most well-loved humorists...

The 1970s in Britain saw a series of industrial disputes, a referendum on membership in the European Economic Community, conflict about issues of immigration and citizenship, and emergent environmental and feminist movements. It was...

Set in a turn-of-the-century Hindu community in the Eastern Caribbean, No Pain Like this Body describes the perilous existence of a poor rice-growing family during the August rainy season. Their struggles to cope with illness, a drunken...

In a barbaric, demon-infested world, no one stands against the all-powerful magic of the Unnamed Enemy, who is called Master of Fiends. No on except young Jarrel and his three friends - Scythe, Archer and Mandra - each with their own...