Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies...

THE GARDE ACADEMY NURTURES.THE FOUNDATION DESTROYS.WHO WILL WIN?________________ Taylor Cook and the 'Fugitive Six' guard their Legacies against the murderous Foundation. They know trouble is coming. A mole inside the Academy is stealing secrets. They...

It has been over a year since the invasion of Earth was thwarted.Taylor Cook thought the invasion was just a bad dream. She'd heard about teens who were suddenly developing incredible abilities, but she had never really believed it. Not until the day she...

Set in the pulse-pounding world of I Am Number Four, this fast-paced action-packed thriller follows the gifted students of The Human Garde Academy.When teenagers around the globe develop new superpowers - new Legacies, the Garde create an Academy...

This collection of over forty of Andersen's most popular stories includes The Mermaid, The Real Princess, The Snow Queen, The Tinder Box, The Ugly Duckling, The Red Shoes and The Little Match Girl.

Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the...

Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat Cavalier and Roundhead battle it out in the turbulent setting of the English Civil war and provide the background for this classic tale of four orphans as they face adversity, survival in the forest,...

Little Princess by Frances Burnett is a story of motherless Sara Crewe who was sent home from India to school at Miss Minchin’s. Her father was immensely rich and she became “show pupil” – a little princess. Then her father dies...

Five Children and It by Edith NesbitIts eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes... it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick, soft fur... and it had hands and feet like a monkey's. 'It' was...

In the The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a huge cyclone transports the orphan Dorothy and her little dog Toto from Kansas to the Land of Oz, and she fears that she will never see Aunt Em and Uncle Henry ever again. But she meets the Munchkins, and they tell...

Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas, and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.In these elegant and devastating tales of deception, desire, and...

Atmospheric, sensual and utterly riveting, Carmilla is the novel that inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula. A true gothic masterpiece, this titillating tale is a key text in the history of vampire literature.A haunting presence lurks among...

This elegant hardback edition presents Henry James’ classic horror novella, The Turn of the Screw, featuring deluxe cover embossing and gilded page edges. The Turn of the Screw is a gothic ghost story, described by Oscar Wilde as ‘a...

Jane Austen's witty, beloved classic on misguided matchmaking is beautifully presented in a deluxe hardback edition with printed page-edges.Albeit that she is not yet 21, Emma Woodhouse foresees a future as a spinster dabbling in matchmaking. Charming...

Anne Elliot is persuaded to reject the love of her life, Captain Wentworth, when her good friend Lady Russell, hints that there is a better match to be found. Now eight years later, Anne's family has been forced to retrench and move to Bath. But while...

A deluxe, full-color illustrated edition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s timeless swashbuckling tale—an adventurous new installment in the MinaLima Classics, the bestselling series from the renowned design studio behind the graphics for the Harry...

The mysteries of our universe and a terrifying sense of the unknown are laid bare in this anthology of weird fiction. Featuring stories from Edith Nesbit, Algernon Blackwood, Robert Louis Stevenson and more, Classic Weird Stories celebrates the...

J. L. Carr's beautiful portrayal of the countryside and the healing it brings, in an irresistible Little Clothbound Classics edition designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman'Unlike anything else in modern...

It is 1915, and Miranda Gray is spending the war on the other side of the Atlantic to her husband. Staying with her eccentric relatives and young son at her family’s stately home, Miranda struggles to find her wartime role. Is she to play the...

One of the great cult novels, a book that can be read and re-read throughout a lifetime, A Glastonbury Romance is John Cowper Powys' masterpiece. Set in a beautifully imagined fictional version of the West Country, the novel inhabits a...