Emma Woodhouse, spoilt and self-willed, is convinced she knows what is right for other people, especially in matters of the heart. She is, of course, invariably wrong. Wrong about Robert Martin and the pretty, empty-headed Harriet; about Harriet and the young vicar; about rich Frank Churchill and poor Jane Fairfax. While scheming and flirting, Emma nearly loses the one person who has always loved her, and it is a very contrite heroine who thankfully...

This collection of true tales celebrates the strange and curious secrets of Merseyside history.

Sheridan Gray has the perfect life: dream job as a hot-shot journalist, ideal boyfriend and demanding parents' approval. That is, until her world crashes around her.

As a young woman, Anne Elliot became engaged to the handsome Frederick Wentworth, but was persuaded by her vain, aristocratic family to break off the engagement due to Wentworth's inferior social and economic standing. Seven years later, still unmarried, Anne meets Frederick once again. Now a decorated naval officer, Captain Wentworth finds with mixed feelings for the woman who rejected him, a decision Anne Elliot soon comes to regret. Persuasion,...

'Crow Lake' is a slow-burning story of families growing up and tearing each other apart. Kate, now a zoologist, can identify organisms under a microscope, but seems blind to the tragedy of her emotional life. She thinks she has outgrown her family, but she can't seem to outgrow her childhood.

At the centre of this novel is the passionate love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff - recounted with such emotional intensity that a plain tale of the Yorkshire moors acquires the depth and simplicity of ancient tragedy.

Beloved and bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith lends his delightful touch to the Austen classic, 'Emma'.

Hannah has known how hard the world is. Thrown into the workhouse by a cousin to whom her father entrusted her, she is determined to make the most of life. But when she loses the man she loves she's seduced into a violent marriage with no escape.

From her calamitous birth in Manitoba in 1905, to her journey with her father to Indiana, throughout her years as a wife, mother and widow, Daisy Stone Goodwill has struggled to find her place in her own life.

This is perhaps Trollope's gentlest and most charming story, less satirical than its predecessors in the Barsetshire series, and less shaded with tragic overtones than 'The Last Chronicle'. Trollope's characters are drawn with affection and humour.