Peter Joyce

Revolutionary for the time in encouraging children to think like children, the adventure ...

Among the first "espionage thrillers" and an acknowledged classic, The Thirty-Nine Steps ...

Dr Jekyll creates a potion whereby he can divide the good and evil parts of his personali...

Over one hundred years since it was first published Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow addre...

The aptly titled sequel to "Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow" which is also recorded by As...

"He was too imperious, too masterful, too much inclined to think that all things should b...

The hugely successful romantic adventure story which continues to thrill a century after ...

In Washington Square James treats on a subject about which he was passionate - the relati...

On one level Melville’s tale is an historical adventure story telling of life aboar...

Harvey Cheyne, pampered son of an American millionaire is swept overboard from the deck o...

The house is called "Pleasance" and is rented by two sisters, Blanche and Aileen. The sto...

"This is a sensible book. I want you to understand that. This is a book to improve your m...

The tale of a rural habitation in the late 19th Century and the effect of industrialisati...

Richard Wardour leaves England on a voyage to the African coast under the impression he i...

John Buchan's hero Edward Leithen chances upon a worldwide plan for domination. With his ...

American history overflows with good yarns. The many cultures which emigrated to the USA ...

Possessed of a... voracious sexual appetite, bitter and frequently disillusioned by the h...

Mr. Reuben Wray, a retired actor who has had little public success, flees Stratford-upon-...

Queen Victoria... and Prince Albert were married in 1840. Dickens uses this event as an i...

David Herbert Lawrence was born into a mining family in Nottinghamshire in 1885. He creat...

Once upon a time, there was a marvellous land of Snergs. Miss Watkyns, a teacher who love...

Written in 1926...and published posthumously [without the authors customary revision] in ...

‘The Woman Who Did’ written in 1893, wholly and solely to satisfy the author&...

What is sinister preacher John Laputa doing on a remote Scottish shore in the moonlight h...

In 1843 the material that Dickens had gathered on his trip to America was published with ...

Set against the international background of the late Victorian rich and privileged, The A...

‘The manuscript was submitted to me by a young officer of the R.F.A., home from the...

Bobby, a sparky silver haired Skye terrier, adopts Auld Jock, a worn out simple shepherd,...

Captain Stephen Sorrell returns from the First World War decorated with the Military Cros...

Cowpunchers, Indians and horses are the heroes and villains of these tales from the early...

The third and final collection in this series of reflections written by one of the wittie...

Eugenie Grandet is Balzac's first great novel and one of the series Comedie Humaine. At t...

Robert Michael Ballantyne was one of the most popular adventure story writers during Vict...

The enigmatic Mr Reeder investigates eight cases involving baffling burglary and blackmai...

Victorian humour generally doesn't translate well across time. The Wrong Box is one of th...

'You will conceive a bunch of grapes,' said he, 'which are covered by some infinitesimal ...

Bennett described his story as an ‘Idyllic Diversion’. Helen Rathbone meets h...