World's End in Winter (Bloomsbury Reader Pod) by Bloomsbury Publishing Pod
More adventures of the Fielding children - Tom, Carrie, Em and Michael - who live in the derelict house at World's End with their family of animals.Their first winter at World's End is packed with incident and excitement that involves children and animals alike ... Price:
Closing Ranks (Bloomsbury Reader) by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
There have been Grayles at Hartleap since Canute. They know this and are proud of the fact. Now they stand round the bed of the very last of their nannies, who is quietly slipping away. Ada Stephens-known as Nanny Grayle, and well into her nineties-is saying farewell. In the strange clarity which... Price:
Ghost Stories to Tell in the Dark (Bloomsbury Reader Pod) by Bloomsbury Publishing Pod
The storm rages. They huddle closer round the flames as the wind howls in the night.Another ghost story begins. But is the old house really deserted, or is something screaming in the darkness? Do you dare to find out? Price:
Gentle Barbarian (Bloomsbury Reader) by Bloomsbury Publishing Pod
'A gentle giant', as the Goncourts called him, Turgenev emerged from the barbarous yet doting rules of a terrible mother, whose cruelties to her serfs are at the heart of his hatred of serfdom. He was saturated in femininity and could not write unless he was in love. When he freed himself from his... Price:
My Brother Evelyn Other Profiles (Bloomsbury Reader Pod) by Bloomsbury Publishing Pod
Author, publisher, traveller, cricketer, lover of wine: Alec Waugh has been all these in the course of a life which has brought him a host of friends around the world. He is a warm person who knows a good friend when he sees one and is revered by all those with whom there has been mutual... Price:
So Lovers Dream (Bloomsbury Reader Pod) by Bloomsbury Publishing Pod
This is not the only one of Alec Waugh's novels in which he has described the agonies of a couple who are desperately in love but cannot marry, for it is a situation that he has himself lived through. But it is in this novel that he has drawn most specifically upon experiences he has only alluded... Price:
Gentle Occupation (Bloomsbury Reader) by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
In the uneasy aftermath of war, a group of ordinary, civilised people on an island off Java face the legacy of hatred and corruption left by the Japanese occupation. With sudden and violent death ever present, they seize their moments of happiness and try above all else to stay alive until the... Price:
I Shall Not Want (Bloomsbury Reader Pod) by Bloomsbury Publishing Pod
Set in Edwardian London, this is the absorbing story of the life-long conflict between the love and ambitions of unrepentant sinner John Marco. Price:
Kept (Bloomsbury Reader Pod) by Bloomsbury Publishing Pod
A rich tale centred around the lives of Marjorie Fairfield, a beautiful and penniless young woman who is the mistress of a wealthy business man; and the symbolically named Ransom Heritage, one of the many young men who were cast adrift after the First World War ended and who has been abruptly... Price: