Famous Classics for Girls: Heidi, What Katy Did & Black Beauty

Susan Coolidge; Anna Sewell; Johanna Spyri; Egmont UK Staff (Editor)

Three essential stories for girlhood reading, retold for young readers and collected in one lovely package   In Heidi, a little orphan girl is forced to live with her grumpy grandfather in a lonely hut in the Alps, and eventually comes to love her mountain life. Katie intends to be beautiful and good ...

The Silence of the Girls

Pat Barker

From the Booker Prize-winning author of the Regeneration trilogy comes a monumental new masterpiece, set in the midst of literature's most famous war. Pat Barker turns her attention to the timeless legend of The Iliad, as experienced by the captured women living in the Greek camp in the final weeks of t...

Unlocking the World : Port Cities and Globalisation in the Age of Steam, 1830-1930

John Darwin

Steam power transformed our world, initiating the complex, resource-devouring industrial system the consequences of which we live with today. It revolutionized work and production, but also the ease and cost of movement over land and water. The result was to throw open vast areas of the world to the ram...