When penniless businessman Mr Bedford retreats to the Kent coast to write a play, he meets by chance the brilliant Dr Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing...

A Story of the Time of the Merrie MonarchAn episode in the life of Mr. Thomas Betterton as told by his friend John Honeywood.

Young, impoverished and ambitious, science student Mr. Lewisham is locked in a struggle to further himself through academic achievement. But when his former sweetheart, Ethel...

During one return home, Sir Percy tells the story of André Vallon, a young Jacobin, to the Prince of Wales. André, wishing to revenge himself on a despotic seigneur,...

Nicolette is a re-telling of the medieval French story Aucassin and Nicolette.

From the author of the bestselling Jalna series, a story of one small thing that creates a lot of beauty.Bill and Coo were two pigeons who built their nest in the shelter of the...

A story of the French aristocracy, the book concerns Madame de Pompadour’s influence over the King and France.In US published under the title Petticoat Rule.

There are dreadful—perhaps scurrilous—rumors about the Borgias of renaissance Italy, and here Dumas, in his Celebrated Crimes series, dishes up the dirt in all its...

The Knights of the Cross is an epic of medieval times and national destiny, ranking as one of the highest achievements from the pen of Henryk Sienkiewicz, the Nobel Prize winner...

When Emma Rouault marries dull, provincial doctor Charles Bovary, her dreams of an elegant and passionate life crumble. She escapes into sentimental novels but finds her fantasies...