Cathy Dobson

"When Deesa the mahout wants to go on a drinking spree for ten days, he entrusts his belo...

When Ralph, the new cabin boy joins the schooner ship Susan-Jane, which is carrying a car...

"An impoverished French family awaits the prodigal return of their long vanished Uncle Ju...

When a gigantic stoorworm appears in the sea off the coast of a peaceful kingdom, the onl...

Everybody remembers Wych Street, a road in London which no longer exists. But nobody can ...

A jealous sailor husband, a pretty but bored young wife and a grey parrot with a masterly...

"M. Savalle, a small-town notary and amateur operatic singer with pretensions, travels to...

When William Froyle, ostler at the Queen's Arms at Moorthorne, learns that his betrothed ...

An enchanting folk tale of two sisters who could not be more different from one another. ...

Nobel Prize winner (and Forsyte Saga author) John Galsworthy described Stacy Aumonier as ...

The story of two brothers, who could not be more opposite, experience the Great War in di...

When a poor lad sets out to seek his fortune, he manages to acquire a magic turban which ...

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. How a butterfly's dispute wi...

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. When all the other animals a...

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. Neolithic cave girl Taffy an...

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. The stickly prickly hedgehog...

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. Kangaroo was once a short wo...

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. When all the other animals b...

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. Neolithic cave girl Taffy tr...

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. The young elephant has an un...

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. Leopard is having trouble fi...

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. The whale likes to eat anyth...

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. The camel who lives in the h...

Kipling’s classic tale taken from the Just So Stories. In the old days, the Rhinoce...

Robert Browning's classic adventure ballad. Three riders set off from Ghent to bring urge...

A quartet of short stories by Britain’s raconteur supreme, Hector Hugh Munro, bette...

A quartet of short stories by the mastermind of practical jokes, Hector Hugh Munro, bette...

A quartet of short stories by the British master of the macabre, Hector Hugh Munro, bette...

When the prematurely middle-aged J.P. Huddle is recommended to take an “unrest-cure...

Conradin is a sickly and introverted child who hates his guardian, Mrs. De Ropp. When she...

The Baroness recounts a hunting story with a twist. Instead of a fox, the quarry turns ou...

When Theodoric Voler boards a train he finds he is not alone in the compartment. Not only...

When the Momeby family’s baby goes missing, their neighbour Miss Gilpet undertakes ...

When master chef Monsieur Aristide Saucourt presents his signature dish to diners at the ...

Mrs. Packletide is determined to shoot a tiger in order to get one up on her arch rival L...

When Henri Deplis comes into a small inheritance and celebrates his new found wealth by g...

Mrs. Sangrail is determined to offload her wayward son Clovis onto Lady Bastable for six ...

Finding himself trapped in a compartment with a set of unruly children, the Storyteller d...

A delightful collection of classic poems that will delight young and old alike, including...

When Billy Bowen and Ellen McDonald's engagement is broken off, nobody quite knows the fu...

Harry Graham made a great name for himself as a writer of light verse and humorous storie...

Harry Graham was an English writer of light verse, popular fiction, and history. He is be...

"The Lady Or The Tiger?" is Frank R. Stockton's most famous work, first published in 1882...

When Mary Hampton challenges Leonard Bilsiter to deploy his self-proclaimed Siberian magi...

Laura is dying. She confidently predicts that she will be reincarnated as an otter. When ...

Three disconcerting culinary masterpieces from the fevered brain of the inimitable Mr. Le...

Charles Bennett's classic telling of the traditional story about a young frog who wants t...

Written in 1867, The Magic Fishbone is one of Charles Dickens' best loved fairy tales for...

A.J. Glinski was to Poland what the Brothers Grimm were to Germany. He travelled the coun...

Heinrich Hoffman's classic cautionary tales for children was first published in German in...