Old England

Philip Yancey has a way of confronting our most cherished--but misguided--notions about the Christian life. In The Bible Jesus Read, Yancey challenges the perception that the New Testament is more important than the Old, that the Hebrew Scriptures aren't worth the time they take to read and...

Take the weird haunted road through New England, where the streets are old, the inns creak after midnight, and even the prettiest coastal towns seem one fogbank away from a séance. Weird Haunted New England Road Trip is a funny, spooky, story-rich travel guide through the region’s strangest ghost stories, witch-trial towns, haunted hotels, eerie graveyards, mysterious mountains, foggy harbors, vampire legends, lake monsters, murder houses, and old roads that feel like they remember too much. This is not a dry history book or a normal travel guide. It is a weird and haunted road trip ...

“A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage.”—Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book Review A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Dwight Garner, The New York Times The New York Times Book Review Time NPR The Atlantic BuzzFeed Tordotcom ...

The New England Masterworks Collection gathers ten works connected with New England life, literature, history, reform, and imagination.

Brought to you by Penguin. These Old Shades is read by Alexander Vlahos, star of Versailles. Leonie Bonnard is being drawn into a twenty-year-old feud. Justin Alastair, the Duke of Avon, is a reprehensible rake with an axe to grind. Decades ago the Comte de Saint-Vire did something unforgivable...

You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the...

Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer's Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven't changed (like word), others that are unrecognizable (such as neorxnawang, or paradise), and some that are mystifying even in translation ( gafol-fisc, or tax-fish).

Step into the thrilling world of Renaissance England with this with this action-packed adventure set in the Tower of London! Join 15-year-old Ben, an orphaned coal-boy, as he finds himself trapped in the haunted Tower of London, facing ghosts, twisting tunnels, and even a putrid moat! One day, while delivering coal to the famous prison, Ben makes a shocking discovery – Princess Elizabeth is imprisoned there! Despite being just a kid with no knightly armor, he can't ignore her desperate plea for help. Determined to aid the princess, Ben sets out on a dangerous journey through the Tower's ...

Travel to London, Edinburgh, Paris, and Cambridge with these eight sweet, clean, and heartwarming stories with real emotion and real faith! Each story is a complete, inspirational, Christian romance with an uplifting, feel-good, happily-ever-after. I hope they give you hours of reading joy! Book 1: The Wedding List When teen loves separated by their families -- her now working in a department store, him a brilliant physics professor -- meet again years later, can they have a second chance at love? teen sweethearts class differences reunion/ second chance Book 2: Believe in Me A Scrooge ...

Cometh the Hour is the penultimate book in the Clifton Chronicles and, like the previous novels - all of which hit the New York Times bestseller list - showcases Jeffrey Archer's extraordinary storytelling with his trademark twists. It opens with the reading of a suicide note, which has...

From the author of the international bestseller Only Time Will Tell, Jeffrey Archer picks up the sweeping story of the Clifton Chronicles with The Sins of the Father. With war between Britian and Germany on the immediate horizon, Harry Clifton has joined the merchant marines to escape long...

The seventh and final volume in Jeffrey Archer’s New York Times bestselling Clifton Chronicles series, This Was a Man, brings the epic saga of the Clifton family’s love, loss, and ambition to a dazzling conclusion. Harry Clifton’s story began in 1920, as a dock worker in England, and now...

From the internationally bestselling author Jeffrey Archer comes Only Time Will Tell, the first in the ambitious Clifton Chronicles series that tells the story of one family across generations, across oceans, from heartbreak to triumph. The epic tale of Harry Clifton's life begins in 1920, with...

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2026** A magnificent work of shadow-play and a meditation on desire, metamorphosis and mortality. Flora is visiting home in Mexico when the family dog leaps up and bites her hand. She winds up in hospital where she undergoes several surgeries under anaesthesia...

Join pastor and bestselling author Charles Swindoll as he explores the stories of 13 biblical hidden figures whose lives have remained in the shadows of history for long enough. Somehow life has taught us poorly. We're trained to think that the most significant people are star athletes, actors...

Bestselling author Jeffrey Archer's Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife Emma rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno? When Ross Buchanan is forced...

“For fans of The Handmaid’s Tale...a debut novel with a dark setting and an unforgettable heroine...is a riveting depiction of hard-won female empowerment” (The Washington Post). The Sin Eater walks among us, unseen, unheard Sins of our flesh become sins of Hers Following Her to the grave...

The Killer Donation, a new One More Chapter book, full description to follow when available...

Will Fairweather is getting old. His back aches, his bowels misbehave if he eats spicy food and he’s completely lost his sense of rhythm. Life has taught him not to take risks, but even that hasn’t stopped his marriage hitting the rocks too. The last thing he needs is a surprise call from Red Fairweather, devil-may-care rock god—and the father Will hasn’t seen for thirty years. If Will’s old before his time, Red’s the boy who won’t grow up.

THE MILLSTONE MURDER A Derbyshire Cozy Mystery — Where the River Keeps Its Secrets The Flour Power Mysteries — Book Two Derbyshire’s peaceful hills hide more than postcard charm… and when the river runs quiet, it’s never without reason. After the chaos of the Bakewell Bake‑Off, the village hopes for calm. Instead, dawn breaks with a chilling discovery near the old millstone bridge — a body lying at the water’s edge, the river whispering around it as if guarding the truth. What should have been an ordinary morning becomes the beginning of a mystery steeped in folklore, old ...