Four intrepid adventurers travel to the Amazon jungle to find evidence of living dinosaurs. Trapped on an isolated plateau, the men must battle with terrifying prehistoric creatures and menacing ape-men – will they survive the dangers of the lost world?
When the beautiful young Dorian Gray sees his portrait, he understands that it will remain beautiful forever and that he will grow old. He makes a wish that will change not only his looks but also his soul.
Mr Verloc appears to be a simple shopkeeper in London who lives with his wife’s family at the back of his shop. But in reality he also works as a spy for a foreign government and has links with a group of anarchists who meet regularly at his shop. When ...
Ishmael and his friend join the crew of the Pequod, a whaling ship, unaware that its captain, the mysterious Ahab, is out for revenge. His plan is to pursue and kill the vicious white whale Moby Dick, and no one can stop him.
A delightful and romantic story set in 1922. Unhappy in rain-soaked London, four very different women answer an advertisement to rent a mediaeval castle for the month of April. There, amidst the sunshine and flowers, they rediscover happiness.
This is a story about murder and mystery set in London during the 1860s. A man called John Harmon had recently returned from abroad when he had been found dead in the water. John had not been drowned, but murdered. Who killed him and why?
An outstanding love story that has been sensitively retold. The heroine, while employed as a personal companion, meets and falls in love with Maxim de Winter, a rich Englishman whose beautiful wife...
This retold version of William Shakespeare’s Scottish story of witchcraft and murder is written as a play script and includes original extracts. Macbeth’s bloody rise to power is encouraged by his...
Emily Brontë only wrote one novel and it has become one of the best loved tales in English Literature. On the harsh Yorkshire moors, the passionate and violent story of two generations of the...
15th July 1988. Emma and Dexter meet for the first time on the night of their university graduation. Soon their lives will go in separate directions. But where will they be on 15th July of the...
A diamond necklace is stolen from a museum. Everyone who works at the museum could be guilty. But who really took the necklace, and why? The police suspect Paul, a young student. So Paul must find the real thief.
Emma Woodhouse is beautiful, clever and rich. She likes to arrange marriages between her friends and neighbours in the village of Highbury. But Emma makes a lot of mistakes and causes more problems than happy marriages. Then she almost loses her own chance of love.
‘It was the seventh day of the storm. We didn’t know where we were. Everyone on the ship believed that death was very near.’The Robinson family do not die at sea; they find their way to a small island. But what can they do now? Where will they live? What ...