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In an eruption of dust and women’s tears, the young nobleman rode off to fight against Colonel Napoleon. Signorina Isabella, standing within the family circle yet separated by modest clothing, watched him gallop away down the southern slopes of Vesuvius, chastising herself for the silly ache in her heart...

A plus-sized young lady of modest birth is pressed to marry a stammering aristocrat. All they seem to have in common is a desire not to meet in church. They elope to avoid matrimony, at which point the focus turns to dealing with her weight and his nerves. Can love flourish after such a discouraging start?

You go to a Zen centre. You sit. Someone with short hair and a serious face rings the bell. Maybe sometimes you have thought, "I could do that!" Maybe you have even thought, "I could do that with a smile!" This book shows you how.

A simple meditation guide for people who waste too much time on trains, planes, buses and trams. By the author of "How to Become a Zen Priest (without shaving your head)".

A cheerful, contemporary version of Virginia Woolf's classic, relocated in Oxford's academic milieu.

Childless, powerless, Lady Emily has tied her own noose. Will she use it?

A kindly, fifteen-minute story containing riddles for Bible scholars..

Lady Emily is sentenced to a life of embroidery, sermons and solitude for bringing shame upon a ducal family name. Her crime? To have written and published a book of verse. On the way to her miserable fate, she hurls herself from her sister's carriage and takes to the open road. Jack is drugged, beaten and obliged to flee his post as chaplain after kissing a viscount's daughter. He is dumped on the stage-coach roof, she sits within. Emily is nursing Jack when her father's men arrive. Can Jack save her?

According to myth, Narcissus fell in love with his own reflection. Unable to possess the object of his desire, he fell into despair. Pavel seeks to resolve this problem by cloning himself in female form. The perfect romance?