Sometimes, when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.Reclusive author Vida Winter, famous for her collection of twelve enchanting stories, has spent the past six decades penning a series of alternate lives for herself. Now old and ailing, she is ready to reveal the truth about her extraordinary existence and the violent and tragic past she has kept secret for so long. Calling on Margaret Lea, a young biographer troubled by her own painful history, Vida disinters the life she meant to bury for good. Margaret is mesmerized by the author’s tale of gothic strangeness—featuring the beautiful and willful Isabelle, the feral twins Adeline and Emmeline, a ghost, a governess, a topiary garden and a devastating fire. Together, Margaret and Vida confront the ghosts that have haunted them while becoming, finally, transformed by the truth themselves.

As a young girl, Rosamond is sent to Shropshire to escape the Blitz. Here, in the countryside, she forms a close bond with her older cousin, Beatrix, a young woman haunted by anger and resentment.Sixty years later, just before her death, Rosamond records her memories on cassettes, addressing them to a distant cousin—a near stranger-named Imogen. As Gill, her beloved niece, listens to these tapes, a heart—stopping family saga is revealed. In this masterful portrait of three generations of woman, Jonathan Coe exposes the profound reserves of hope and loss within the lives of ordinary woman.

Product Description: Emma Woodhouse is one of Austen's most captivating and vivid characters. Beautiful, spoiled, vain, and irrepressibly witty, Emma organizes the lives of the inhabitants of her sleepy little village, but her attempts at matchmaking lead to misunderstandings and potential heartbreak...read more

Product Description: Helen Huntingdon flees a disastrous marriage and retreats to the desolate, half-ruined moorland mansion, Wildfell Hall. With her small son, Arthur, she adopts an assumed name and makes her living as a painter. The inconvenience of the house is outweighed by the fact that she and Arthur are removed from her drunken, degenerate husband...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. In Mayda, a post-apocalyptic city off the coast of Portugal, a brilliant young engineer and a mysterious recluse race to build a flying machine, unaware that powerful enemies will kill to possess--or destroy--their new technology.

Product Description: Anne of Green Gables and Anne of Avonlea, the classic series set in Canada, is read by Liza Ross; Black Beauty, the touching portrait, full of drama and sadness, is performed by Jonathan Keeble; Jenny Agutter tells the charming journey into the magical garden, in The Secret Garden...read more

Product Description: This is a CD to play at home over Christmas or during the car journey to see relatives. "Dylan Thomas", "A Little Match Girl" and "The Nutcracker" are told by Jenny Agutter with Tchaikovsky's music - this is a must for Christmas. It contains new recordings as well as some of the finest tracks from the "Naxos AudioBooks" catalogue...read more

Product Description: Book by Dunmore, Helen

Product Description: Set in late eighteenth-century England, this wonderful love story contains dialogue that sparkles with wit and irony. Its ingenious and compelling plot, along with some of the most unforgettable characters ever created, have made Pride and Prejudice a favorite.