An epistolary novel set on a fictional island off the South Carolina coastline, 'Ella Minnow Pea' brings readers to the hometown of Nevin Nollop, inventor of the pangram 'The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog'. Deified for his achievement in life, Nevin has been honored in death with a monument featuring his famous phrase. One day, however, the letter 'Z' falls from the monument, and some of the islanders interpret the missing tile as a message from beyond the grave. The letter 'Z' is b...

We Five tells the story of five young female friends and co-workers through the voices of five different authors, the story unfolding against five distinct historic backdrops. The driving conceit is that an anonymously authored manuscript from the mid-1860s (perhaps the work of Dickens contemporary Elizabeth Gaskell) was discovered and later published. Over the succeeding decades four other authors choose to retell this story in their own time and in their own way. The last author...

A full-cast production inspired by Pygmalion, Shaw’s classic drawing room tale of language and class division, and its musical incarnation, My Fair LadyPIGmalion tells the story of one Eliza Doolittle, who sells homemade pork rinds at the Tri-Counties Fair and Livestock Show. The daughter of a hardscrabble Mississippi pig farmer, Eliza dreams of someday working as a waitress at “one of those nice downtown barbecue restaurants where all the tourists go.”

What if Jane Austen had had a black-sheep brother? Lets call him Chad. Chad Austen. What if Chad had always chafed at the literary preciousness of his sister Janes mannered tales? The kind of chat-filled tales of the heart wherein characters sit in properly appointed drawing rooms with tea cups and cakes and exchange the sort of whispered confidences that in actuality took place nowhere upon this planet? And certainly not during the Regency period, known to British scholars as the seediest, m...

Following the national success of 'Ella Minnow Pea', this second novel from Mark Dunn brings the same charm and love of good language to a small town in the South. 'Welcome to Higby' follows the hilarious goings-on in a small town in northern Mississippi over Labor Day weekend. The weaving of narratives brings us Stewie Kipp and Marci Luck, whose love for one another has grown stale as Stewies faith becomes impertinent; Carmen Valentine and Euless Ludlam, whose shared debilitating shyness thr...

Mail Order Brides of Oregon Series: Book TwoDear Reader: This is a sweet, heartwarming, full length mail order bride historical romance novel with a happy ending. Set in western cowboy Oregon in 1886.Ellie Bates ran from a forced marriage in Boston to a lecherous man. She arrived in Oregon to be a housekeeper for Jared Ford, a gruff cowboy looking after his Granny, his dogs and his ranch in the middle of the Oregon prairies.Ellie can't quite believe...

Erica James at her best - 'A very moving novel about life, families and love' Sunday Express*'*James is a great storyteller - a really enjoyable read' Woman's Weekly*'*A terrific tearjerker ... Humorous and sensitive' Bella'Brilliant!' Prizes MagazineHarriet Swift thinks she has the perfect life - a satisfying career, her own flat and a new boyfriend who r...

Over sixty years ago, a World War II soldier mailed a Christmas card from overseas to his sweetheart. That card has finally arrived–but to an address now called home by Samantha, a young missionary awaiting her next assignment. Inspired by the card's amazing journey–and the tender message of its sender–Samantha searches for the card's rightful owner against the odds.Her best hope seems to lie with Ty, a wounded soldier sent home to finish his career behind a desk. Feeling trapped, ...

First in the series starring the sleuthing Palm Beach playboy from the #1 New York Times –bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author.Inveterate playboy Archy McNally gets paid to make discreet inquiries for Palm Beach's power elite. But keeping their dirty little secrets buried will take some fancy footwork in McNally's latest case.A block of priceless 1918 US airmail stamps has gone missing from a high-society ma...

Tales of the Jazz Age (1922) is a collection of eleven short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Divided into three separate parts, according to subject matter, it includes one of his better-known short stories, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button". Several of the stories had also been published earlier, independently, in either The Metropolitan, Saturday Evening Post, Smart Set, Collier's, Chicago Tribune, or Vanity Fair.

First published in 1847, Wuthering Heights is set on the bleak Yorkshire moors, where the drama of Catherine and Heathcliff, Heathcliff's cruel revenge against Edgar and Isabella Linton, and the promise of redemption through the next generation, is enacted. This edition uses the authoritative Clarendon text, and in a new introduction Patsy Stoneman considers the bewildering variety of critical interpretations to which the novel has been subject, as well as offering some provocative new insigh...

Festive felonies, unscrupulous santas, deadly puddings, and misdemeanors under the mistletoe...From Victorian detective stories to modern mysteries, police procedurals to pulp fiction, comic gems to cozy crime, there's something for every festive mood in this must-read collection starring sixty of the world's favourite detectives.Featuring an all-star cast of authors including Isaac Asimov, Mary Higgins Clark, Arthur Conan Doyle, G.K. Chesterton, Colin Dexter, Thomas Hardy,...