Catriona Dunbar is sent to stay with relatives on the Lancashire coast for the season. But between perpetually drunken Samuel Espley and his caddish son Julian, life in the grand house of Pelham is far from the happy holiday she had been anticipating. The only consolation is her ...
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Keziah Sephton is kept busy caring for three generations of her family, as well as running the apothecary while her father is tending fever victims at the local almshouse. She has neither thought nor time for romance. Hard-working George Cunliffe has loved Keziah since they were ...
Feeling bereft after her sister Fanny gets married and moves away, young Amy Macfarlene must manage Clockmakers Cottage on her own, while earning a living as a parlour maid and seamstress for a wealthy local family, the Paslews. Her wayward brother Rory is a constant concern, as ...
Dramatized biography of the big band leader, showing how he rose from obscurity and poverty to fame and wealth in the early 1940's.
Charlotte Vale, Will Jervis and Andrew Holcomb were childhood friends, but when Andrew left Whitby for America, Charlotte did not know he was forced to leave following the death of a young woman. When he returns she is overjoyed, and assumes Andrew will take over the family shipp...
Screen legend James Stewart and America's Sweetheart June Allyson star in this delightful tribute to one of the world's most cherished bandleaders and composers, charting Miller's rise from obscurity and poverty to fame and fortune as the man whose music would define the ever-qui...
As Miss Marple sat basking in the Caribbean sunshine she felt mildly discontented with life. True, the warmth eased her rheumatism, but here in paradise nothing ever happened. Eventually, her interest was aroused by an old soldier's yarn about a strange coincidence.
Meirian is brought to Blackthorn Manor under unusual circumstances, and soon becomes involved in the estate. Strange behavior of the residents of the Manor, as well as of the villagers, prompt her to solve the mystery.
An air-mail letter and wallet of photographs from Hong Kong bring unexpected-- and shocking-- news for Laura Robbins and her younger brother and sister at Spryglass, the tall old family house facing the seashore on the wild Lancashire coast. Their seafaring father's startling rev...
In post-war Liverpool, Ellen Butterworth's ambitious sweetheart Brian leaves the Navy and comes ashore so they can begin a future together. An urgent telegram from her younger sister Jeanette interrupts their wedding plans, and Ellen must return to the Yorkshire wool town where s...
With her father at sea on the packet Jenet Rae, Amy MacFarlane has to look after the family while working as a maid for the Paslew family. Amy is sure her sister Fanny is making a mistake in marrying Theodore Buxton, especially when she overhears Theodore and his brother Nicholas...
"During a stormy winter's night, Meirian Penlan travels by stagecoach to take up a mysterious post at Blackthorn Manor. Wild and remote, Blackthorn lies amongst the great meres of Lancashire, surrounded by long-held superstitions, tales of witchcraft and uncanny occurrences. Once...
Running the Bell Inn, which sits high above Macgregor's Cove, is a busy yet peaceful life for Amaryllis's family - but their lodger Kit Chesterton arrives with a heavy secret in tow, which threatens to disturb the quiet waters. Meanwhile, a recent influx in contraband starts ripp...
Since girlhood, Rachel Warmsley has devoted her life to caring for her widowed father and younger brothers, keeping house for them at Pedlars Down, the brown and white timber-framed manor house that has been home to the Warmsleys for generations. When handsome Hugh Armstrong come...
An anthology of poetry featuring works from classic Mother Goose to original poems and illustrated by artists such as Maurice Sendak, Helen Oxenbury, and Shirley Hughes.