Welsh Fiction

The beautiful Miss Alison Brooke is the envy of London's 18th-century royal society. When villainy occurs, an unexpected hero comes to her aid. But rumors result, and Miss Brooke finds herself in the center of tawdry gossip. Her rescuer, Robert Anderson, Viscount Charmaine, is preoccupied with troubled finances, an ill father, and defense of the Crown. Problematically, Charmaine's best friend, Marquis Anthony Farrington, is clandestinely helping fund the American Revolution. Miss Brooke's large dowry tempts both men. Her father, however, wants his daughter to marry for love, not money.

Kale Hunt has been her best friend since childhood. But it was never that simple. He was Lane's reason for leaving home and moving to New York. Seeing him with someone else, in love with someone else, shouldn't have hurt. But it did. It really, really did. So she upped sticks and left, started a new life and cut herself off from her past.

The son of a notorious outlaw is adopted into a wealthy, law-abiding family as an infant after his father is killed in an attempted robbery. Will he follow in the footsteps of his outlaw father, or will his life be guided by the respectable woman who nurtured him to manhood?

She looked like she’d drifted off to sleep, curled up in her white dress, blonde hair floating in the breeze. They called it the Angel Murder. Eighteen-year-old Angelica Brock is found dead at a local beauty spot, dressed in a pure white nightgown, her white-blonde hair arranged around her. For years her death is a mystery, her killer the one who got away for a whole generation of police.

Listen to these anal virgins get it for the first time in the naughtiest spot of all. Featuring threesomes, age gaps, milfs and brats–all of whom dare to take it rough, hard, and raw in the one place they shouldn’t!

「（犬は吠えなかった）だからこそ妙な行動なのです。」ホームズシリーズ第19弾の舞台は、イングランド南西部ダートムア！1888年秋、イングランドを震撼させたウェセックス賞杯

С самого раннего детства Энсон, один из наследников баснословного состояния в пятнадцать миллионов долларов, осознавал свое превосходство над сверстниками. Став постарше, он в полной мере ощутил, что такое власть денег. Хрустящие зеленые купюры открывали для него все двери.

A House of Pomegranates (1891) is a collection of four fairy tales by Oscar Wilde: "The Young King," "The Birthday of the Infanta," "The Fisherman and His Soul," and "The Star Child." These magical, beautiful, tragic, and cynical tales will charm listeners of any age. Narrated by Noel Badrian, and performed by a full cast.

Green Tea is the story of the Reverend Jennings, who consumes copious amounts of green tea while pursuing his esoteric interests late at night. When something goes wrong, he approaches Doctor Hesselius, who sets out the narrative in the form of a series of letters to another physician. He discusses the symptoms of the clergyman’s mysterious affliction, which torments him and interferes with his services. The illness appears to be mental rather than physical.

Betjeman's England is a place of patriotic poets and seaside coves, provincial cathedrals and eccentric dons. For 50 years, Betjeman celebrated the glories of Englishness and what it meant to be English. Against a tide of rapid change, he unearthed forgotten heroes, bygone haunts, and old-fashioned modes of thought. But as this original collection reveals, his appeal goes far beyond simple nostalgia. It lies in his passionate convictions, his humour and his humanity.

Grik the goblin spends his days as a janitor cleaning the Metropolitan Dance Hall, drawn to the Elvish world and tired of the darkness of his underground home. He secretly pines for the ballet company’s lead dancer, Rosanna, but his own ugliness and shyness stand in the way of confessing his love.

Зов предков - рассказ об удивительной судьбе собаки по кличке Бак. Бак был похищен, увезен на Аляску и продан золотоискателям. Непросто было домашнему псу приспособиться к жизни в суровых краях дикого Севера. Но, выдержав все испытания, он стал сильным, выносливым и бесстрашным зверем.

Предлагаем вашему вниманию все сказки знаменитого английского писателя Оскара Уайльда. Именно эти девять сказок, которые Уайльд сочинил и любил рассказывать своим маленьким сыновьям Сирилу и Вивиану, принесли ему настоящую славу.

Романы и рассказы Джека Лондона давно завоевали заслуженную популярность и любовь читателей всего мира. Простым и доступным языком он рассказывает о захватывающих приключениях и драматических битвах за выживание.

Роман "Великий Гэтсби" был опубликован в апреле 1925 г. Определенное влияние на развитие замысла книги оказало получившее в 1923 г. широкую огласку дело некоего Фуллера-Макги.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), was an English writer, poet, philosopher, dramatist, journalist, orator, lay theologian, biographer, and literary and art critic. Chesterton is best known for his fictional priest-detective Father Brown. In The Club of Queer Trades, narrator 'Cherub' Swinburne and his friends, the eccentric former judge Basil Grant, and Basil's younger brother, private detective Rupert Grant, encounter six curious mysteries, each involving someone who makes a living in an extraordinary and bizarre - in the language of the time a 'queer' - way.

This collection brings together stories by Edith Wharton, Katherine Mansfield, Wilkie Collins and Marcel Proust, with forays into the supernatural and the comedic by Sabine Baring-Gould and Saki. Be them funny or moving, all stories are beautifully read by Harriet Walter (Atonement, Netflix’s The Crown), Juliet Stevenson (Bend it Like Beckham, The Enfield Haunting), Barbara Leigh-Hunt (Pride and Prejudice, Billy Elliot) and Rosalind Ayres (Titanic, Outnumbered).

Leana Murphy ist ganz sicher nicht auf der Suche nach der Liebe ihres Lebens. Denn die Liebe ihres Lebens hat sie bereits verloren, als ihr Mann gestorben ist. Doch es zieht sie immer wieder in die schottischen Highlands des 16. Jahrhunderts. Warum wird die Anziehungskraft des Steines immer stärker? Steckt vielleicht doch eine neue Liebe dahinter? Und wer ist der geheimnisvolle Mann, der sie so in seinen Bann zieht? Es dauert nicht lange, bis Leana herausfindet, dass noch viel mehr als ein Abenteuer in der Vergangenheit auf sie wartet. Etwas, das größer ist, als die Zeit selbst.

Sie war nur auf der Suche nach einem Abenteuer – niemals hätte sie gedacht, dass sie noch so viel mehr in den schottischen Highlands des 16. Jahrhunderts findet Ihrer neuen Stelle als Polizistin in Inverness kann Tavia Anderson nicht viel abgewinnen. Zu beschaulich, zu langweilig. Doch als sie während der Ermittlungen zu einem Vermisstenfall auf einen mysteriösen Stein stößt, der sie wie magisch anzieht, ändert sich von einer Sekunde auf die andere ihr gesamtes Leben.

Two all-time classic stories brought together in a single book, written by English author Lewis Carroll. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, commonly referred to as Alice in Wonderland is a tale of a young girl who falls down a large rabbit hole and finds herself in a fantasy world filled with every kind of creature imaginable including the White Rabbit, the Caterpillar and the King of Hearts!