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The Girls' Book of Priesthood
Margot Goodwin arrives as the new curate at St Mark’s, Highbury. She’s one part exhilarated, ten parts terrified.This is the most important twelve months of her life. Success would ...
The Odd Women
First published in 1893, ‘The Odd Women’ by Victorian author George Gissing revolves around the themes of feminism, marriage, and love through the lives of several contrasting wome ...
A Tale of the Tow-Path
‘A Tale of the Tow-Path’ by American author Homer Greene, is a short story which follows the exploits of the young son of a farmer, Joe Gaston. Following a disagreement with his fa ...
Amy Foster
In this 1901 short story inspired by Ford Maddox Ford’s "The Cinque Ports", Conrad works on the theme of alienation. It centers on a young man, Yanko, the sole survivor of a shipwr ...
Stand by the Colours
Loyalty is tested to its limits in this thrilling English Civil War adventure.In the opening days of 1644, there seems to be little hope for Parliament’s soldiers. To William Sparr ...
Sunshine and Second Chances
A holiday with old friends makes for plenty of fun in the sun!Debs chokes on the dust as she looks forlornly at her ancient vacuum-packed summer clothes. It seems doubly cruel that ...
The Holladay Case
The life of a law clerk at a New York firm is hectic. It can only be made more so by the addition of a murder trial. Alongside his job at Graham & Royce, Lester has a front-row sea ...
Queen Lucia
"Queen Lucia" (1920) is the first volume of E. F. Benson’s "Mapp and Lucia" 6-novel series. It is a comedy of manners, set in provincial Riseholme (Lincolnshire). Emmeline Lucas ru ...
Moths of the Limberlost
Gene Stratton-Porter was a naturalist and fierce conservationist as well as an author, and one of the areas she held dearest was the Limberlost swamp. Indeed, she spent her income ...
Bunner Sisters
‘Bunner Sisters’ explores the lives of the impoverished class in 1870s New York. Sisters Ann Eliza and Evelina run a small shop out of a shabby basement on a side street. Despite t ...
In the Year of the Jubilee
The Jubilee marks the fiftieth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. Dickensian in its sweeping scope of London life, Gissing’s "In the Year of the Jubilee" (1834) depicts the hars ...
That Affair at Elizabeth
Published in 1907 ‘That Affair at Elizabeth’ is a detective novel set in turn of the century New York City. When bride-to-be Marcia disappears just hours before her wedding, friend ...
The Storm
"The Storm" (1704) is a founding document of modern journalism. It tells of the events of November 1703, when a hurricane struck Britain. It is composed of verbatim eyewitness acco ...
The Custom of the Country
The Custom of the Country (1913) is a scathing critique of American upward mobility, as told through the journey of overindulged Undine Spragg. She moves from Apex City to New York ...
The House of Mirth
Witty socialite Lily Bart has expensive tastes. Unfortunately, she does not have the social status to match. So far she has managed to get by on ‘old money’ and has become accustom ...
Laddie
"Laddie" is Gene Stratton-Porter’s most autobiographical novel, and is titled after her brother, who drowned as a teenager. It is the story of Pamela Pryor and Laddie Stranton. Whi ...
The Harvester
"The Harvester" is a gentle love story, made up of a fondness for nature, high moral ideals and an engaging plot. It is the story of young David Langston, who lives in the countrys ...
Ingen väg hem
Sommaren 1940. Två år har gått sedan Hedy Bercu flydde sin hemstad Wien och nazisterna. Nu blickar hon upp mot himlen över Jersey och det oupphörliga mullret från de tyska flygplan ...
Taistelulähetti
Heinäkuun lopulla 1941 sotamies Taneli Kaappola saa määräyksen komppanianpäällikkö Tikkasen lähetiksi itärajalle. Taistelut Tyrjän kylän valtaamiseksi ovat juuri alkamassa, ja Isä- ...
Toinen todellisuus
Postinjakaja saapuu syrjässä sijaitsevan pienen mökin pihaan. On epäilyttävän hiljaista. Pihalla on vain kissa, mutta talon ovi on auki. Sisällä postinjakaja kohtaa odottamattoman ...
Joulu joka päivä
Kolmen lapsen äiti Emelie on kyllästynyt elämäänsä. Lasten isä on palannut kotiinsa Gambiaan, ja Emelie on uurastanut saadakseen arjen toimimaan. Budjetti on tiukka, työ on tylsää, ...
Marsin prinsessa
Yhdysvaltojen sisällissodan veteraani John Carter vaihtaa maisemaa koto-Virginiasta Arizonan osavaltioon kullan perässä. Kullan perässä on toki muitakin. Taistelu arvokkaasta miner ...
Tarinaniskijä
Joe Crownilla on unelma. Jonain päivänä hän jättää köyhän elämän taakseen ja hänestä tulee ammattikirjoittaja – menestynyt sellainen. Sitä ennen Crownin on kuitenkin selvittävä New ...
Paksun lumen talvi
Ennennäkemätön lama kurittaa Suomea syksyllä 1992. Työttömyys on hurjassa nousussa, ja velkataakka painaa harteita. Oikeusministeri Hannele Pokka tietää kuitenkin, millä keinoilla ...
Tuonen morsian
Rikosten selvittelyssä ansioituneen Aamulehden toimittaja Ina Djurlingin ja konstaapeli Voitto Karhun hääjuhlat keskeytyvät odottamattomalla tavalla. Karhu joutuu astumaan saappais ...