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New York, 1925. While her children play, Rosalia unpacks boxes in the family's new apartment. In one of them, she finds her old sketchbook, and when she looks at the pictures, they take her back to her journey to America from Italy by sea in 1910, as a fourteen-year-old girl... Word count 8,707
It is early morning on a warm day in Roman Italy. Sixteen-year-old Tiro gets the water, makes breakfast, and works in the kitchen - like he does day after day. Tiro is a slave. But today is different. He is going to Pompeii for the first time. He is excited, but it is AD 79: and on Mount Vesuvius, very bad things are beginning to happen... Word count 4,793
It is 2088, and life in the city where Sala lives is hard: it''s overcrowded, there are no jobs, and no one can leave, because the world outside is contaminated. Sala is lucky, because she has Cham, and they love each other. But when Cham gets the chance for a new future, and Sala begins to make some extraordinary discoveries, will they agree about how to move forwards and what to do with their lives? Word Count 22,815
Newland Archer is engaged to young May Welland, but the beautiful and mysterious Countess needs his help. He becomes her friend and defender, but friendship with an unhappy, lonely woman is a dangerous path for a young man to follow - especially a young man who is soon to be married.
She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to marry where they please. She must have her father's permission, and Dr Sloper is a rich man. One day Catherine will have a fortune...
At home there is sad news waiting for young John, and he learns that he has good reason to hate the Doones. But in the years to come he meets Lorna Doone, with her lovely smile and big dark eyes. And soon he is deeply, hopelessly in love...
There were three people who had reasons for wanting Charles Bravo dead - Florence Bravo, his new young wife; Dr James Gully, Florence's former lover; and Mrs Jane Cox, Florence's friend and companion. The enquiry into the death in 1876 could not decide who the murderer was. For more than 130 years people have wondered who killed Charles Bravo...
Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Denry. Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. Before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventures than you'd believe. The town of Bursley never stops talking about him. Whatever will young Denry do next?
Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, the father brought up his young family. Who had heard of the Brontes of Haworth then? Branwell died young, but his sisters became famous writers. But they did not live to grow old or to enjoy their fame.
Algernon knows that his friend Jack does not always tell the truth: in town his name is Ernest; in the country he is Jack. But when Gwendolen says she can only love a man called Ernest, Jack decides to change his name. Cecily agrees to marry Algernon, but only if his name is Ernest, too, and things become difficult for the two young men.
There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is Toby Hall. Why does he decide to visit Number 11 Child Row, and who does he find there? And then there are the Hessian brothers and Annie Emery - and the little problem of twelve thousand pounds.
All they could hear was the wind, and the waves. All they could see was the night. They could not see the ship, broken in two, or the people holding on to the dark wet rock, slowly dying of cold. And they could not hear the cries for help - only the wind. How could a man and his daughter save the people on the rock?
When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. 'It' was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing - fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes - one wish a day. 'How wonderful!' the children said.
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