Oxford University has attracted and produced many of the world's most original thinkers over the centuries. It boasts heads of states, academics, writers, actors, scientists, philosophers and many other luminaries among its alumni. On any tour of the University and colleges famous ex-students Tony Blair, Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher ...
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her 'Anne of Green Gables' books, she was also a prolific ...
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her 'Anne of Green Gables' books, she was also a prolific ...
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her 'Anne of Green Gables' books, she was also a prolific ...
Elma Napier's love affair with Dominica, then a British colony, began in 1932 when she turned her back on London's high society to build a home in a remote coastal village on that most mysterious and seductive of all Caribbean islands. Black and White Sands is the memoir ...
A well written collection of ghost tales set in Scotland, a part of the UK which is full of haunted houses, spirits and ghosts. Read about the locations and the ghosts which have made them famous.
Scottish Ghost Stories, by Elliott O'Donnell is packaged with an easy to use ...
The Scottish Enlightenment provided the fledgling United States of America and its emerging universities with a philosophical orientation. For a hundred years or more, Scottish philosophers were both taught and emulated by professors at Princeton, Harvard and Yale, as well as newly founded colleges stretching from Rhode Island to Texas ...
Near the end of the nineteenth century, the Gaelic-speaking crofters of the Scottish Highlands rose in revolutionary struggle against their English landlords for the right to live in security on their own ancestral clan lands.
Mightier Than a Lord, by Iain Fraser Grigor is packaged with an easy to use ...
The Cuthberts needed help on their Farm at Prince Edward Island, Canada therefore they sent to an orphanage for a boy to help them at Green Gables. To their dismay a talkative romantic red headed girl arrives but her wit and good nature win over the Cuthbert's and the ...
This book presents a narrative of Scottish politics since devolution in 1999. It compares eight years of coalition government under Scottish Labour and the Scottish Liberal Democrats with four years of Scottish National Party minority government.
It outlines the relative effect of each government on Scottish politics and public policy ...
Highland Resistance takes as its subject the record of land-centred (and by implication culture- and nationality- centred) conflict in the Highlands of Scotland during the two and a half centuries since the Jacobite rising of 1745. The book tells the story of anti-landlord agitation and direct-action land-raiding from the great ...
Crusoe is shipwrecked in a storm about forty miles out to sea on an island (which he calls the Island of Despair). His companions all die. He discovers native cannibals who occasionally visit the island to kill and eat prisoners.
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe ...
Picking up from where A Seaside Practice left off, in Going Loco Dr Tom takes time out from the surgery for stints as a medical researcher and reporter, describing his travels from Rio to Miami, Vienna to Buenos Aires. Part memoir, part travelogue, Going Loco takes us on a journey ...
A collection of thee classic titles by Bram Stoke. Includes Dracula, the classic tale of vampires as a young British lawyer visits count Dracula in his remote castle. The Lair of the White Worm a horror novel partly based on the legend of the Lambton Worm and The Jewel of ...
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One of R.M. Ballantyne more well-known stories set in the South Pacific, Paulina, Dominick and Otto Rigonda manage to make it in a life boat to an uninhabited coral reef island after their ship is destroyed at sea.
The Island Queen, by R M Ballantyne is packaged with an ...
One of R.M. Ballantyne more well-known stories set in the South Pacific, Paulina, Dominick and Otto Rigonda manage to make it in a life boat to an uninhabited coral reef island after their ship is destroyed at sea.
The Island Queen, by R M Ballantyne is packaged with an ...
What happens when people return to the land of their birth after decades away? The migrants' journey is a well-told story but much less is known about those who return. Why do they go back? What is it like to be “back home”? Home Again is a collection of contemporary ...
Fresh off the boat and newly married to the Governor's daughter, Dominic Drubbins finds his new life in the Caribbean thrown into turmoil by a pirate attack unlike no other. Enthralled by the dashing Sebastian, Dominic takes to the high seas but as he learns more about his enigmatic ...
A fascinating bible study on the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ, written by Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister George MacDonald.
The Hope of the Gospel, by George MacDonald is packaged with an easy to use book reader.
Once the app has been downloaded, you do not need ...
A fascinating bible study on the message of the gospel of Jesus Christ, written by Scottish author, poet, and Christian minister George MacDonald.
The Hope of the Gospel, by George MacDonald is packaged with an easy to use book reader.
Once the app has been downloaded, you do not need ...
When teenage twins James and Jerome are told that treasure, buried during the days of slavery, is their rightful inheritance, their summer holidays turn into a frantic treasure hunt. Determined to find Abraham's Treasure, they de-code the clues that take them to the mystical interior of their Caribbean island ...
A collection of short stories including The Witch, The Huntsman, Happiness and others.
The Witch and Other Stories, by Anton Chekhov is packaged with an easy to use book reader.
Once the app has been downloaded, you do not need an internet connection, so the book can be enjoyed anywhere.
A retelling of old Greek stories involving mythological heroes and their adventures. Tales include those of Prometheus, Io, Perseus and Theseus.
Old Greek Stories, by James Baldwin is packaged with an easy to use book reader.
Once the app has been downloaded, you do not need an internet connection, so ...
A fantastic collection of 19 short stories from some of the best Russian authors of history, including Chekhov, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Gorky.
Best Russian Short Stories, by Various is packaged with an easy to use book reader.
Once the app has been downloaded, you do not need an internet connection ...
A collection of fictional adventure stories including some with a colonial bent. As usual these are the standard that one would expect from an experienced writer such as Conan Doyle.
The Gully of Bluemansdyke and Other Stories, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is packaged with an easy to use book ...
A retelling of old Greek stories involving mythological heroes and their adventures. Tales include those of Prometheus, Io, Perseus and Theseus.
Old Greek Stories, by James Baldwin is packaged with an easy to use book reader.
Once the app has been downloaded, you do not need an internet connection, so ...
These short stories bring together for the first time the shorter fiction of Phyllis Shand Allfrey, whose novel The Orchid House is a classic of Caribbean fiction. Set in Dominica, New York and London, the stories probe brilliantly beneath the surface of colonial life, often drawing on autobiographical experiences. Allfrey ...
A delightful Christmas tale about the nodding Donkey who was made from pieces of wood in the workshop of Father Christmas (with illustrations) Ideal as a bedtime story
The Story of a Nodding Donkey, by Laura Lee Hope is packaged with an easy to use book reader.
Once the app ...
This is a sequel to 'Chronicles of Avonlea' and contains fifteen short stories about the inhabitants of the fictional Canadian village of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island. one of the stories is 'Aunt Cynthia's Persian Cat', in which Aunt Cynthia leaves her spoilt Persian cat Fatima in the care ...
Lucy Maud Montgomery was born at Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, Canada, on November 30, 1874. She achieved international fame in her lifetime, putting Prince Edward Island and Canada on the world literary map. Best known for her 'Anne of Green Gables' books, she was also a prolific ...