After his final trip up the river, Jerome sat down to write a serious book about the Thames, but in the process, his humor took over and gave birth to this masterpiece of unquenchable comedy.
England
- Author:Jerome, Jerome K.Summary:
- Author:Hallett, Michelle ButlerSummary:
"1593. Queen Elizabeth reigns from the throne while two rival spymasters--Sir Robert Cecil and the Earl of Essex--plot from the shadows. Their goal? To control succession upon the aged queen's death. The man on which their schemes...
- Author:Lacey, RobertSummary:
A picture of life in the year 1000. Set in England, it follows the Julian Calendar month by month, revealing amazing details of a mainly agrarian life.
- Author:Gregory, PhilippaSummary:
Gregory joins two eminent historians to explore the real-life characters behind her Wars of the Roses novels. Gregory and her team describe the extraordinary lives of the heroines of her Cousins' War series: Jacquetta, Duchess of...
- Author:Grahame, KennethSummary:
A charming mole and an impulsive toad get into trouble in the English countryside. Adventures include stealing a car, escaping from prison and running into a god.
- Author:Donnelly, JenniferSummary:
In 1914, with World War I approaching, polar explorer Seamus Finnegan tries to forget Willa, a passionate mountain climber, as he marries a beautiful young woman back home in England.
- Author:Butler, PaulSummary:
The Widow’s Fire explores the shadow side of Jane Austen’s final novel Persuasion, disrupting its happy ending and throwing moral certainties off balance. We join the action close to the moment when Austen draws away...
- Author:Harvey, SamanthaSummary:
15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder' The...
- Author:Dexter, ColinSummary:
A year after a young girl disappears near Oxford, the case remains unsolved. Chief Inspector Morse is sure she's been murdered, but only when an anonymously-written poem appears are there any clues to go on. The erudite Morse...
- Author:RICHARDSON, Henry HandelSummary:
Mahony, having bought a medical practice on the south coast of England, discovers that his years in the colonies have alienated him from provincial English life. Follows Australia Felix.
- Author:Trollope, AnthonySummary:
Presents the aged Reverend Harding as warden of the almshouse at Barchester providing charity for the town's neediest, and his life.
- Author:Duffy, EamonSummary:
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he' When it...
- Author:Fowler, ChristopherSummary:
Returning to the Victoria Cross pub hours after witnessing the murder of a woman, Detective Arthur Bryant is stunned to discover that the pub itself has vanished and the street around it has mysteriously aged, and calls in the Peculiar...
- Author:Doyle, Arthur ConanSummary:
Have Holmes and Watson finally met their match in the dreaded Molly McGuires and the diabolical Moriarity?
- Author:Christie, AgathaSummary:
Indomitable detective Hercule Poirot is pitted against nine cunning adversaries in nine tales of murder, deception, terror, disappearance, and suspense.
- Author:James, HenrySummary:
A governess is hired to look after two orphaned children living at their absentee uncle’s grand estate and soon becomes convinced that her charges are controlled by the ghosts of the former governess and her lover. Famous for its rich...
- Author:James, HenrySummary:
One of the most daunting ghost stories to ever be written, Henry James' The Turn of the Screw follows the transformation of Miles (age 10) and Flora (age 8) from well-behaved children to deceitful liars. When a governess comes to their...
- Author:AviSummary:
When his father is arrested as a debtor in 1849 London, fourteen-year-old John Huffman must take on unexpected responsibilities, from asking a distant relative for help to determining why people are spying on him and his family.
- Author:Albert, Susan WittigSummary:
When Beatrix finds an abandoned infant, Captain Woodcock and Dimity care for the child as Beatrix and her furry and feathered friends search for its mother.