The Delaneys have the reputation of being difficult guests. When they arrive, order departs, chaos reigns.

Maria, Niall and Celia have grown up in the shadow of their famous parents –...

There were four of us: George, William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency (the dog). We were in need of some rest, and it was George who first suggested a trip up the river. He said it...

The fourth of the ‘Barsetshire Chronicles’, ‘Framley Parsonage' was published in 1860 to wide acclaim and has always been one of Trollope’s most popular novels. In it, the values of a...

The story opens in the country parsonage of Dr Primrose, a kindly man who has a good heart, a good family and a good income. Suddenly, his idyllic life is cruelly devastated by a series of...

Set in the claustrophobic atmosphere of a dingy haberdasher’s shop in the passage du Pont-Neuf in Paris, this powerful novel tells how the heroine and her lover, Laurent, kill her husband,...

Exiled by superstition and betrayal and cut off from faith and human love, for fifteen years the solitary, simple–hearted weaver Silas Marner has plied his loom in Raveloe and devoted himself to...

Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’ is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of listeners....

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there...

A man in his sixties looks back on his boyhood for the first time in fifty years, recalling events that took place on...

One of the world’s great novels, set on the vast stage of Russia during the first half of the twentieth century. It paints a panoramic picture of a country in the throes of the most radical...

Orphaned Flora Poste, expensively, athletically and lengthily educated, descends upon her relatives at Cold Comfort Farm to find a motley crew indeed. There’s Judith, alone in her grief; Amos,...