In this spirited but faithful sequel to Anthony Trollope's "The Last Chronicle of Barset" we carry on from where the great Victorian novelist so frustratingly left off. We meet all our old favourites again - Archdeacon Grantly, Bishop Proudie, Glendo...
Danny is a young boy growing up in the impoverished north east of England in the nineteen sixties. He tells the story of a fateful summer that began in hope and ended in tragedy, and changed his life forever....
This book retells the story of Jane Austen's most popular book from the point of view of one of her least popular characters, Mr. Collins, the comic clergyman from Pride and Prejudice. It is a light-hearted exploration of what might have happened beh...
Classicists and non-classicists alike should enjoy this light-hearted retake on the story of how the Trojan War began. While sticking closely to the ancient texts for its events, its gods with the morals of five-year-old hooligans, and its heroes con...
Have you ever wondered what Jane Fairfax, Frank Churchill and the mysterious Mr. Dixon got up to in Weymouth the summer before the events recounted in Jane Austen's "Emma"? Now is you chance to find out, in this latest from the author of "Pride Unpre...
This volume completes the story begun in "The Judgement of Paris." Readers will meet the same juvenile delinquent gods and the same heroes obsessed with everyday problems. It all adds up to a humorous retelling of an ancient story that will strike ch...
After a chance meeting between Mary Crawford and William Price, now a captain in the Royal Navy, Mary Crawford returns to Mansfield to work her magic again on the Bertram family, now much altered, and to reunite them while war rages in Europe....
A chance encounter at a London ball between Mary Crawford, beautiful, vivacious and wealthy and Fanny Price's brother William, now Captain Price of His Majesty's Navy, starts a correspondence that leads Mary Back to Mansfield Park, to work her old ma...
This book tells the story of how Mr and Mrs Bennet met and produced their family of daughters, each one destined, in her own way, to be a heroine. It also reveals the further adventures of Mary and Kitty after their sisters had left home....
Read this book to find out the backstory of Eleanor Tilney and her childhood sweetheart, the viscount she marries at the end of Northanger Abbey. Follow them through their honeymoon in Europe as the Peace of Amiens between England and France breaks d...
Now that she is Miss Dashwood, Margaret, the erstwhile ""Terror of the Seas"" must carve out her own role in life. Her sisters, Elinor and Marianne, are both happily married and supremely content with their roles, but Margaret, while admitting that p...
Mr Bennet of Longbourn relates how, after the marriage of his daughters Elizabeth and Jane, he is persuaded to visit them in Derbyshire and then to go on to Newcastle to visit Lydia and Wickham. While in the North he becomes embroiled in a famous inc...
Read all about the early life of Mr Darcy's sister Georgiana, her involvement with the opprobrious Mr Wickham and more, in this latest offering from the creator of Pride Unprejudiced and More Sport for Our Neighbours....
Mr Bennet, of Longbourn, records his journey across Europe to visit his daughter Lydia and her husband Wickham in their new home. He also reveals the vital part played by the Bennet family in events which were to redraw the map of the continent....
When Dr. Morland prescribes a warm climate for Mrs Bennet's ailment, and a letter arrives from Lydia inviting them to meet her at Venice, the Bennets set off for another Continental jaunt. Darcy and Elizabeth go with them, as do the Morlands with the...
When Lady Catherine De Bourgh dies of an apoplexy brought on by news of the latest French Revolution, it becomes her daughter Anne's duty to maintain the Rosings Estate in the face of conflicting claims arising from her mother's will. How she does so...
When Caroline Bingley, desperate to avoid her creditors in London, agrees to accompany her friend Fanny Adams on a visit to her father, she expects to go to Guernsey, the family's ancestral home. Instead, she ends up in the backwoods of the U.S. and ...
Mr Bennet develops a severe congestion of the chest, which obliges him to spend the winter by the Mediterranean.Accompanied by his daughter Jane and her husband, as well as his usual Medical team, and using the latest means of transport, they travel ...
Have you ever wondered exactly what Lydia did in Brighton and London after she left Meryton and before returning as Mrs Wickham?Now is your chance to find out, in this latest from the author of Pride Unprejudiced, More Sport for Our Neighbours and ma...