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Professor Challenger is back - this time with some haunting encounters to handle.Challenger's friend Edward Malone, a journalist, begins to investigate spiritualist meetings for his newspaper, along with...

In case you've never taken a moment to stop looking at cat videos and arguing with strangers on the Internet to appreciate the readily accessible cornucopia of collected human knowledge that your phone...

A true Victorian romance, 'Enoch Strone' from author E. Phillips Oppenheim, follows the fortunes of lonely engineer Enoch Strone. Caught in a love-triangle between the poor but lovely Milly, and the beautiful...

First published in 1922, E. Phillips Oppenheim set 'The Great Prince Shan' in an imagined future of 1934. Though WWI has ended, national security is still under threat. Great Britain has placed complete...

Myra Heath is a woman of few luxuries. She does not use cosmetics, she runs her business with precision and frugality, and she likes to pretend that her marriage is a happy one. In fact, the only two...

Justin Arnold's abrupt disappearance from his own mansion cuts his weekend festivities short. When local police are unable to locate him, a missing person case quickly becomes a murder investigation,...

'The Affair at Flower Acres' is the seventh in the Pennington Wise series of mystery novels from prolific author Carolyn Wells. Douglas Raynor is the owner of the beautiful estate of Flower Acres, where...

Set in Britain shortly after the end of the Russo-Japanese war, 'The Illustrious Prince' provides a fascinating insight into the political tensions of the time. The story centres around Prince Maiyo –...

E. Phillips Oppenheim's first novel, 'Expiation' is a story packed full of suspense and surprise. Set between England and Canada, the tale follows the fortunes of Harold Mornington, who returns to his...

Wealthy young Lord Geoffrey St. Maurice has fallen in love with the beautiful Italian songstress Adrienne Cartuccio. He has a rival for her love however in the form of Count Leonardo di Marioni, and the...

"The Fallen Leaves" is a British garage rock group that formed in Richmond, London in 2004. Their most commercially successful release was 2013's "If Only We'd Known" with their top hit being "Against...

The first of the 'Jeremy' books, Jeremy introduces us to our hero, at the age of eight. Jeremy and his two sisters, Helen, and Mary, live in the quiet, unassuming town of Polchester. However, Jeremy has...

First published in 1912, 'Peter Ruff and the Double Four' by E. Phillips Oppenheim follows the story of country squire Peter Ruff as he is drawn into the criminal underworld. Named as successor of the...

Published just three years before the outbreak of WWI in Europe, 'Havoc' gives a fascinating insight into the atmosphere on the continent at the time. Colliding in Vienna are the beautiful Mademoiselle...

First published in 1903, 'The Yellow Crayon' is the sequel to E. Phillips Oppenheim's earlier novel, 'Mysterious Mr Sabin'. French royalist Mr Sabin is on the hunt for his missing wife Lucille, who has...

A quirky and light-hearted novel from author E. Phillips Oppenheim, 'An Amiable Charlatan' charts the story of a young English aristocrat who finds himself caught up in the lives of a con-artist and his...

Eager to make his fortune in the gold mines of Africa, young Scarlett Trent must grapple with his own sense of wrong and right, balancing the challenges which face him with his desire to get rich. He...

These sixteen short stories are packed full with charming characters and vibrant prose. Each of the tales are based in New England and primarily centered on strong female protagonists who face various...

Aristocrat Monsieur Simon is living in Paris, where he presides over a court specifically for the wrongdoers of society. Little does he know when he brings along the young Eugene d'Argminac to this nefarious...

Penny-pinching bookseller Henry Earlforward harbours a desperate love for his neighbour and customer Violet. After he succeeds in wooing and marrying her, their marriage begins to fall into ruins as Violet's...

A girl from a wealthy family. A boy from the wrong side of the tracks. Mahala and Jason's love is star-crossed from the beginning - not helped by the petty prejudices of people in small-town USA.In this...

Setting the template for almost every subsequent novel set at school, 'Jeremy at Crale' follows the trials and tribulations of our eponymous hero. The third in the series, Jeremy is now 15 and finds himself...

'The Struggles of Brown, Jones and Robinson' is a satirical tale from Victorian author Anthony Trollope about a failing haberdashery firm. One of the partners, Mr Robinson, is our narrator. We follow...

Prison breaks, thwarted love affairs, buried treasure—"The Count of Monte Cristo" has it all. ​If you love Dumas' "The Three Musketeers", this is your next must-read adventure.In Volume I, we meet Frenchman...

He has his freedom and a vast fortune. Now Edmond Dantes wants revenge. To get it, he'll have to become someone else. In this second volume of Dumas' classic adventure, Dantes transforms into the Count...

Wealthy spinster Miss Sarah Jack encourages young Maurice Cumming, the impoverished proprietor of a Jamaican coffee and sugar plantation, to run for the House of Assembly in Jamaica. Whilst in Spanish...

'The Small House at Allington' is the fifth in Anthony Trollope's 'Chronicles of Barsetshire' series of novels. The plot centres around the romantic fortunes of young sisters Lily and Bell Dale, who live...

First published in 1858, 'The Three Clerks' by Anthony Trollope has been described as his most autobiographical. Drawing on his own experiences working as a Junior Clerk in the Post Office, we follow...

'Sylvia's Lovers' is a novel by English novelist and short story writer Elizabeth Gaskell, best-known for her novels ´North and South', 'Mary Barton', and 'Cranford'.Set in the 1790s in an English seaside...

In this 1866 Anthony Trollope novel, heroine Clara Amedroz faces a bleak future. Her father's fortune has been squandered on her wastrel of a brother, leaving Clara destitute with no money and no inheritance...