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‘Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave, ‘ —W.E. Henley. His name was Charlie Mears; he was the only son of h …

One of Hilaire Belloc’s most famous works, ‘Cautionary Tales for Children’ satirizes a genre of admonitory children’s literature popular in England in the late 18th and 19th centuries. The seven …

Pele and Hiiaka are Hawaii’s most spectacular female deities, and this story of their conflict over the mortal Lohi’au stands at the fountainhead of Hawaiian myth, oral tradition, and dance. For ce …

Working round the clock for her country1941: As a nurse in the rubble-strewn East end of London, Daisy Driscoll is a first-hand witness to the trauma of the Second World War. All she can do during …

From the New York Times bestselling author and literary phenomenon V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) comes a shivery gothic tale of romance, class divisions, and the secrets that …

A delightful children’s classic dealing with questions of natural life with plentiful and colourful examples of how things work, and more importantly, why such things as rain, snow, wind and others …

In a certain kingdom there lived a Prince Ivan. He had three sisters. The first was the Princess Marya, the second the Princess Olga, the third the Princess Anna. When their father and mother lay at …

This epic Gothic Western about a half-Indian outcast who becomes a famous buffalo hunter is ‘;a big sprawling novel of the West as it really was’ (The Denver Post). Perhaps Joe Cobden was always …

In Helen Carey’s poignant and nostalgic novel SOME SUNNY DAY, it’s 1940, and two young women are growing up in a world full of drama and danger. Perfect reading for fans of Kate Thompson and Donna …