W. Somerset Maugham 
Landed Gentry [PDF ebook] 
A Comedy in Four Acts

Book three in the Love in Store saga that has tracked Tim Cooper’s life from Barrow Boy to a highly successful business man with a retail empire. He has been constantly supported by his beautiful wif …

Thirty years ago, on Mother”s Day, Mary Byrd Thornton”s nine-year-old stepbrother was murdered. His killer was never found. At the time, Mary Byrd had been fifteen: in love and caught up in the exc …

Above them the great rock bulged out like a too clever forehead, too clever for anything to grow upon, too smooth for anyone to climb… It might be the only place on earth which is so high and difficu …

The Breakstone family arrange themselves around their daughter Heather, and the world seems to follow: beautiful, compassionate, entrancing, she is the greatest blessing in their lives of Manhattan l …

Mark and Jennifer are married. He is a builder. She is an accountant. Life is happy until an accident at the job site causes Mark to behave strangely. The marriage becomes troubled. But does The Aven …

The year is 1859. Edward Scales is a businessman, a butterfly collector, a respectable man. He is the man Gwen Carrick fell in love with one windswept day on a beach in Cornwall. Seven years later he …

For disillusioned author Max Long, the offer of a writing-fellowship on the mysterious-sounding ‘Burnt Island’ is a godsend. Max is determined that, inspired by his tenure on this windswept outpost, …

Cinderella will go to the ball…And be seduced by the Prince Prince Vittorio’s spontaneous invitation to shy hotel maid Rosa is supposed to end at Venice’s most exclusive Carnival ball. Yet their inst …