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A satirical comedy on the subject of death.

The Shielding of Mrs Forbes Graham Forbes is a disappointment to his mother who thinks that if he must have a wife, he should have done better.

Describes British climbers' attempts to scale Mount Everest in the early 1920s, discussing such topics as the role of imperial ambition in the expedition and the way in which the ascent reflec

The long-awaited autobiography of one of Britain's national icons.

Ismay Deagan has one wish in the world - to leave Ireland and join her brother, Bram, in Australia. However, her father has other ideas and orders her to marry their vicious neighbour Rory Flynn.

After four years of college in America, Princess Christianna is determined not to return to the stiff, formal lifestyle of her father's court and, hoping to make a difference in the world, per

A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while ...

Examines a man's life not as it is lived, but as it is relived, coming back each time to the same point years earlier in time. Most people have one life, Jeff Winston has several.

If you've done six impossible things this morning, why not round it off with breakfast at Milliways, the Restaurant at the end of the Universe?

After twenty years of marriage, farmer Fergus McKenzie and his beloved Kirsteen are to be parted for the first time.

Orlena and her brother find that, on the death of their father, they are considerably wealthy, but complications arrive creating desperate situations for them.

In some future time when the Earth is dying, a witch who had been exiled to a distant star, returns to seek revenge. Rhialto the magician must use his great power to defeat her.

The story of a young, strong willed and passionate couple living in Hong Kong and Canton during the 1850's when the penetration of China by Western countries was causing bitter hatred and war.