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Rafael Sabatini is a master storyteller. The Daily Telegraph described him thus: 'One wonders if there is another storyteller so adroit at filling his pages with intrigue and counter-intrigue, with...

The Scarlet Pimpernel appears in a play and a series of novels and short stories by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. They are set at the start of the French Revolution, Pimpernel being a master of disguise...

A collection of short stories by Arthur Machen, one of the modern masters of supernatural and horror fiction.Author: Arthur MachenPublisher: Oxford City PressPublication Date: Nov 12, 2011Number of...

Set in the mid 1850s, the story of Rachel Henning's voyage to Australia is told through the letters she writes to family and friends.Author: Rachel HenningPublisher: Oxford City PressPublication...

"The Little World" is a fascinating travel book, in which Benson describes her travels around the world, concentrating on China and the USA.Author: Stella BensonPublisher: Oxford City...

"The Man in the Queue" is the first case for Scotland Yard Inspector Grant who was to become the hero of five of Josephine Tey's mystery novels. Josephine Tey was in fact a pseudonym for the Scottish...

The French Revolution is well under way when Quentin de Morlaix, already sympathetic to these disenfranchised French aristocrats, finds that he too has his own personal reasons to pray for an end to...

Three of Keynes' classic works in a single volume.Author: John Maynard KeynesPublisher: Oxford City PressPublication Date: Mar 16, 2012Number of Pages: 228 pagesBinding: Paperback or SoftbackISBN-10:...

"The Mechanical Properties of Wood" (fully illustrated) was written primarily for students of forestry to whom a knowledge of the technical properties of wood is essential. The mechanics involved is...

Penny Parker is the heroine of a series of mystery stories written by Mildred Wirt, who went on to write the Nancy Drew Series. However, she preferred Penny Parker to Nancy Drew, her obituary...

Rafael Sabatini was an outstanding Anglo-Italian writer of historical adventure stories and romances of the early 20th Century. This collection brings together some of the most celebrated of his many...

This collection of short stories by the unjustly neglected star of the pulp fiction era, Abraham Grace Merritt, is full of fantastical and chilling adventures, in which ancient gods stir and people...

A sequel to extremely popular, largely autobiographical "Diary of a Provincial Lady," by E. M Delafield (also known as Mrs Henry de la Pasture), about her life in England in the early 20th century...

The Scarlet Pimpernel appears in a play and a series of novels and short stories by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. They are set at the start of the French Revolution, Pimpernel being a master of disguise...

A work of historical fiction introducing "Red Sonya".Author: Robert HowardPublisher: Oxford City PressPublication Date: Jan 02, 2011Number of Pages: 54 pagesBinding: Hardback or Cased BookISBN-10:...

Famous especially for his poem, The Man from Snowy River, Andrew Barton Paterson was an Australian author from the bush who wrote especially about the Australian outback. The Shearer's Colt, one of...

"The Ship of Ishtar" is a universally hailed as a classic of the fantasy novel genre. Merritt's writings were heavily influenced by H. Rider Haggard and Gertrude Barrows Bennett (writing as Francis...

The Soil and Health, a classic of organic farming, is an essential introduction to organic gardening and farming."The health of soil, plant, animal and man is one and indivisible." - Albert Howard.At...

A collection of four of Robert Howard's Historical Adventures: The Sowers of the Thunder, Gates of Empire, Lord of Samarcand, and The Lion of Tiberias.Author: Robert HowardPublisher: Oxford City...

Axel Martin Fredrik Munthe (1857 - 1949) was a Swedish-born physician and psychiatrist, best known as the author of The Story of San Michele, an autobiographical account of his life and work. He...

Arthur Pounds "The Turning Wheel" is a must read for any Automobile Enthusiast. In it he describes the birth of the Automobile, the pioneers who developed these vehicles across the world, the impact...

Hold on to your hats for a ride through the injustices of 1900s America courtesy of Upton Sinclair, (1878 - 1968), an American author and commentator who wrote nearly 100 books. Not only did he write...

T.S. Eliot's most famous work, The Waste Land, has been called one of the twentieth century's most important poems. Among his most famous lines are "April is the cruellest month" and "I will show you...

One of the earliest scientific works on all aspects of compost and manure. Still of value today, especially to those interested in organic agriculture. Howard is the author of the very ground...

"The Whale House of the Chilkat" is a collection of photographic plates and drawings provides a visual record of a communal house of the Chilkat clan of southeast Alaska's Tlingit Tribe. It also...

The White Cliffs is a novel in verse, the story of an American girl who falls in love with an Englishman in the era of World War I.Author: Alice Duer MillerPublisher: Oxford City PressPublication...

The writings of Abraham Kipling (1809 - 1865) show him to be a man of many sides, but above all they show him to be an outstanding statesman who should be seen as a man with astounding relevance for...

Trent's Last Case is in fact the first novel in which the sleuth Philip Trent makes his first appearance. The novel breaks new ground in detective fiction history because it is the first novel of any...

Inaugural addresses from all the American Presidents, from George Washington in 1789 to Barack Obama in 2009.Author: George WashingtonPublisher: Oxford City PressPublication Date: Oct 21, 2011Number...

Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin was born in Talbingo in central New South Wales, in 1879. Her parents belonged to the "Squattocracy" - Europeans who lived off the land because they were the only...