British Fiction Classic

The sizzling story of colonial America on the brink of revolution tells of a woman torn between the man she has promised to wed and the Irish-born renegade who has captured her heart. Now she must decide—promise or passion. Abandoning her pampered life in England to marry a man in America, Elizabeth Lawrence finds her new world shattered when her husband is killed in an accident after only a few months of marriage, leaving her in charge of a gun powder business on the untamed frontier. She hires an Irish-born man named O’Brian as foreman. Soon the sparks fly. She wanted to kiss his ...

LADY CORA TAKES SOCIETY BY STORM . . . Lady Cora Midland, a highly-spirited country beauty, offers no pretensions, which wins her many admirers, despite her lack of knowledge on how to manage the beau monde. However, Matthew Harrington, Lord Lindmore, believes she is taking advantage of his elderly grandmother, who is assisting with the girl’s presentation, and he means to put a stop to the chit’s shenanigans. LORD MATTHEW LINDMORE IS IN DENIAL . . . So he might keep an eye on the woman, Lindmore reluctantly assists his grandmother in bringing Lady Cora out in Society. Yet, what ...

Suspicious Death is a murder mystery set in the quaint village of Ricketts in Hampshire during the 1920s. Dive into the world of Michael Harlow, an internationally renowned novelist and amateur detective, as he navigates the intricate web of secrets, lies, and hidden motives behind a shocking death. When the popular and wealthy Mrs. Weathers is found dead at the bottom of a cliff, the initial verdict of an accidental fall is quickly cast into doubt. Michael Harlow, called away from his holiday to cover the story for the Daily Courier, teams up with his cousin James Walton to uncover the ...

“This book will make you laugh, and cry! The story line was extraordinary and the characters came alive. You FEEL every emotion… You will fall in love with all the men…You will find this book VERY hard to put down!”—Amazon Customer This is an excellent book! The characters are well developed and engaging. It is amazing all that Ellen has endured. Richard rescues her from an evil man. Richard is so kind and giving even though he has suffered unspeakable things. Gavin sees Ellen and instantly wants her. Has to have her, but Ellen has to keep her past a secret. I didn't want to put ...

His Majesty’s Prison BlackRock is where Evil is sent to die. None of the killers imprisoned on the island prison, 30 miles off the coast of Scotland, will ever leave. When Scottish billionaire, social philanthropist, and prison reformer, Ethan Mackay, is murdered during a VIP visit to the island, it becomes dangerously clear that not all the murderers are behind bars. Cut off from the mainland during a ferocious winter storm, the rest of the VIP tour take refuge in the Governor’s residence and patiently wait for the storm to pass. But what secrets lurk beneath the surface? What ...

Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly abridged and remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. What was it like to love, live, and rebel in Britain during the 19th and 20th centuries? These beloved British novels offer three dramatically different but universally recognisable experiences. Read by three luminaries of the stage and screen: Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, and Sir John Gielgud.

In 1959, Nancy’s life changes dramatically when her family moves to a new town, Stevenage. Now there is room for a piano, Nancy loses herself in an imagined past of Mozart’s lesser known sister, while making unexpected discoveries of her own inscrutable mother’s history. In 1989 the piano becomes a fixture in a women’s community centre in the town, in a time of personal strife for Martha and her friends. The politics of the era threaten the existence of the centre, and the future of this group of women. A troubled young man buys the piano in 1997 and places it in his sparse flat at ...

During her lifetime Violet Paget, who wrote as Vernon Lee, was referred to as 'the greatest of modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction', and yet today she remains on the periphery of the genre. This collection of her uniquely weird short stories and dark fantasies proves why she was once considered among the best of the genre, and why she deserves to return to those ranks today.

“A different kind of plot…very different from the ordinary!”—Faira Gann, Amazon Customer A frontier story of desire and passion when the rich officer and the Irish bar maid defy convention and go behind enemy lines to fight for the patriot cause. Fiery and captivating, Irish bond servant Cassie O’Flynn has struggled to get where she is and knows the tall, raven-haired stranger is too rich for her blood. But the moment Devon Marsh lays eyes on her, he loses all reason … he wants to touch her, feel her creamy soft skin against his, taste her full rosy mouth that promises so much. ...

A woman goes missing. Her car is discovered in the Australian Outback, burnt out but there is no body. Her husband, her son and the local gigolo are all suspects but the case comes to a dead end then Police Constable Elizabeth West is bound, gaged and abducted by a ruthless killer. Can Detective Bigfoot save her? 'Deadly serious and laugh out loud funny.' Revised and Rewritten.

A fascinating collection of tales from some of Great Britain's finest classic authors.

A rich and varied collection of classic short stories by British writers: 'Quality' by John Galsworthy, 'The Mark on the Wall' by Virginia Woolf, 'The Horse Dealer’s Daughter' by D. H. Lawrence, 'The Ticking of the Clock' by Louisa Baldwin, 'The Fiddler of the Reels' by Thomas Hardy, 'The Return' by R. Murray Gilchrist, 'Kew Gardens' by Virginia Woolf, 'Seashore Macabre' by Hugh Walpole, 'Satan’s Circus' by Eleanor Smith, 'The Coffin Merchant' by Richard Middleton....

With the infected and undead bearing down on your door, how would you face them? If you could choose the ending to your story, what kind of hero will you be? Monty doesn't want the world to end; he likes his life, and the majority of the people within it. He is not, however, going to get a choice in the matter. Mr Classical gives you the story of Montgomery, a proud and independent man that realises perhaps he is neither as proud nor as independent as he first thought, when the citizens of the UK steadily succumb to the zombie virus. Will Monty survive? When he catches a glimpse of what the...

When is a death a murder? There’s trouble brewing in the idyllic town of Faukon Abbey. The main employer, Gwedrow Glassworks plans big layoffs and tempers flare. When Marion Rivers, a pillar of the community, is found lifeless in her bathtub, it becomes a case for DI Peter Greene and DC Terry Ford. Their efforts are compounded by one injured cyclist and another cyclist who has disappeared. As secrets emerge, yet another chilling death further shatters the peace. Meanwhile, Jimmy Carter from the Faukon Abbey Chronicle, digs in to unravel the twisted web of lies and motives. Will Greene’s...

An outlaw falls for his beautiful prisoner and soon it’s clear he’s her captive. Heir-apparent to a ranching fortune, Rick Peralta craves the freedom of the open skies. He’s a man with a double life who finds his escape when he becomes El Cazador, the notorious gunman who always gets away riding his fleet horse. He enjoys the company of many woman, anyone who pleases him, really, whenever he pleases. But when he first sets eyes on Jennie McCaine he is besotted and she becomes the only one for him. As a rancher’s daughter, innocent Jennie McCaine has been sheltered but she has a bold...

“Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.” - Benjamin Franklin Captain Whittaker Stanwick has a successful military career and a respectable home farm in Lancashire. What he does not have in his life is felicity. Therefore, when the opportunity arrives, following his wife’s death, Stanwick sets out to know a bit of happiness, at last—finally to claim a woman who stirs his soul. Yet, he foolishly commits himself to one woman only weeks before he has found a woman, though shunned by her people ...

Milly-Molly-Mandy lives in a tiny village in the heart of the countryside, where life is full of everyday adventures! Join the little girl in the candy-striped dress as she has a tea-party, looks after a baby hedgehog and helps to thatch a roof – whatever Milly-Molly-Mandy and her friends are up to, you're sure to have fun when they're around. Further Doings of Milly-Molly-Mandy contains twelve short stories that are the perfect way to introduce younger listeners to the enduringly popular heroine, not forgetting her friends little-friend-Susan and Billy Blunt!

What's playing at the Calliope Club may draw a furtive crowd, but as far as the CID's Andrew Dalziel can tell it's all perfectly legal. His partner, Peter Pascoe, begs to differ. From what he hears, an actress's violent ordeal on film looked all too real. When she turns up unharmed, it appears his suspicions were wrong . . . if Andrew and Peter can trust what they see. Because if this dirty business is well and good, why has the film in question vanished? Why has the theater been set ablaze? And why has its proprietor been beaten to death?

A Scottish bond servant escorts his lady on an exotic adventure to recover her family’s lost gold treasure and gives her passionate ecstasy and the destiny of a brighter tomorrow. “Full of adventure with many twists and turns!"—Frances Trainor, Romantic Times HER HIGHLAND BOND SERVANT Rake, outlaw, and runaway, Kincaid is just the man to accompany Lady Elizabeth Lacy Bennett on her willful adventure to get back the lost family treasure she so desperately needs to save her plantation from going bankrupt. HER INCAN WARRIOR GHOST SPIRIT Lady Elizabeth Lacy Bennett has witch powers, ...

A spoiled English Lady rebels against the half-Native American half-English sea smuggler forced to be her husband and they discover the thrill of impetuous passion. Smuggled aboard a ship bound for the colonies, the English lady Keely Bartholomew is ill-prepared for life in America, much less the devilish half-breed captain Brock Forrester. This man, the illegitimate son of a Lenni-Lenape man and an English woman, is used to having his own way. When the tall, brawny, mixed-race man caresses her and holds her in his massive arms, looking at her with eyes as black as night, the heiress is ...