"Girl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her black lesbian identity; her...

Desperate for money, Michael Tremayne, Marquess of Falconridge, allows his title to be auctioned off to the highest bidding father, only to find himself tied to the willful Kate Rose, who wants nothing more from her aristocrat husband than unending love.

Lionel Asbo, a terrifying yet weirdly loyal thug (self-named after England's notorious Anti-Social Behaviour Order), has always looked out for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Desmond Pepperdine. He provides him with fatherly career advice (always carry a knife, for example) and is determined they should share the joys of pit bulls (fed with lots of Tabasco sauce), Internet porn, and all manner of more serious criminality. Des, on the other hand,...

Bringing her family to London in the hopes of finding her younger sister a suitable husband, Frederica is saddened when her prime prospect, the Marquis of Alverstroke, seems totally uninterested, but when her younger brother ends up in a terrible accident, the dutiful Marquis becomes as chivalrous as ever to the those in his charge.

During a party at the family farm in the English countryside, sixteen-year-old Laurel Nicolson has escaped to her childhood tree house and is dreaming of the future. She spies a stranger coming up the road and sees her mother speak to him. Before the afternoon is over, Laurel will witness a shocking crime that challenges everything she knows about her family and especially her mother, Dorothy. Now, fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded...

A classic tale of an orphan growing up in the 1800's of England. Intimately rooted in the author's own biography and written as a first-person narrative, "David Copperfield" charts a young man's progress through a difficult childhood in Victorian England to ultimate success as a novelist, finding true love along the way.

A fictionalized account of the partnership between Arthur Conan Doyle and forensic detective Dr. Joseph Bell, in which the pair explore the strange underworld of violence and sexual hypocrisy running below the surface of the Victorian era.

"Lady Chatterley's Lover first published 1928 ; A Propos of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' first published 1930 ; Cambridge University Press Edition published 1993 ; Published with new editorial material in Penguin Books 1994 ; This edition published with new Chronology, Introduction, Further reading and A Note on the Texts in Penguin Classics 2006 ; This edition published 2009"--Verso [p. iv].

Georgina's independence and her ideas about women's rights are a cause for concern to her more conventional mother and sister, who disire to fit in with the rest of 19th century British society, but these very traits attract the attention of the wealthy Lord Rivington and enable her family to gain social acceptance.