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Three BBC radio adaptations of famous novels by the prolific 19th-century author Mrs Oliphant - plus an episode of Reading Aloud, with extracts from her autobiography. Sometimes called ‘the feminist Trollope’, Margaret Oliphant wrote more than 100 works of fiction in a wide variety of genres, ranging from novels of small-town life to historical tales and supernatural stories. Included here are three of her best-loved works, brimming with dry wit, perceptive irony and flawed but fascinating heroines.

This family saga starts with a young South African woman searching for her family origins and history in Britain. While starting work on compiling notes on The Gravel Road, I earnestly began to want to bring back to life those long-forgotten beginnings of an ancestral family, hoping to capture their experiences of surviving under extreme circumstances in their daily lives. At this time, men of different colors and creeds could put aside their grievances, uniting in the determination and will to succeed.

Jenny Kane loves weird science - but it's gone way, WAY out of control. Her mother's moved out, her dad's still moping around, and she's not sure how to cope any longer. And she keeps getting these weird phone calls from a scientist named Rod who's...where?...when? - another time zone? Another time altogether? Another reality? But that'd be crazy, wouldn't it? She also has the strangest feeling that she's done all this before. Who's this odd boy she just crashed into - this Tristan?

'Good people, I am come hither to die and by a law I am condemned to the same.' These were the words uttered by 17-year-old Lady Jane Grey as she stood on the scaffold on a cold February morning in 1554. Forced on to the throne by power players at court, Queen Jane reigned for just 13 days before being imprisoned in the tower, condemned for high treason and executed.

Wallis Simpson stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first or only love. Before Wallis dominated his life, he adored three other women: Rosemary Leveson Gower, the girl he wanted to marry; Freda Dudley Ward, the Prince's long-term mistress; and Thelma Furness, his twice-married American lover. Each one of the three women in this book could have changed the course of history. In examining their lives and impact on the heir to the throne, Rachel Trethewey questions whether he ever really wanted to be king....

People buy people, which means that managing our presence and profile is critical. We are constantly meeting and speaking to people who are short of both time and attention. By exploring the concepts of energy (to increase presence) and story structure (to bring content alive and make it concise...

Little Red grow up on Day Street, and the time has come for the neighbors on the street to look for leadership. What or who could be better suited for this task but someone who grew up in the community? Now, it's time to find and prepare someone for the tasks ahead.

Shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year Arrest Me, for I Have Run Away is a stunning short story collection on human nature and identity. Stevie Davies' latest work, it is bound to captivate and charm the listener.

Der Alltag ist hektisch, gemeinsame Zeit wird immer seltener - es ist schwer für Eltern zu erfahren, was ihr Kind im Inneren beschäftigt, welche Ängste es hat und was es glücklich macht. Die Psychologin Ulrike Döpfner stellt zahlreiche Kommunikationstechniken für bedürfnisorientiertes Zuhören und Reden vor. Anschaulich erklärt sie, wie Sie Sorgen, Ängste und Glücklichsein von Kindern im Alter zwischen 4 und 12 Jahren erfragen und erkennen können.

1851. Wealthy businessman Jacob Welland is dying of consumption and implores private detective Laetitia Rodd to find his beloved brother, whom he has not seen for 10 years. An impoverished Oxford scholar who left college to live as a wandering hermit, Joshua Welland has been spotted in a gypsy camp, where it was rumoured he was learning great secrets.

Harper and her friends get to visit the mysterious Night Forest, a world of magical birds, dark forests and fairy-tale cities, and it is rumoured that a magical Ice Raven lives amongst the ebony trees, singing a magical song that can melt hardened hearts. Will the children try to capture it? Or give it freedom? This is the third title in the Harper series.

She's the woman he's been hired to kidnap. But ZeZe Vargas has other ideas...like getting them both out of this nightmare alive. Just one problem. She's crazy. Certifiably. Because while he's plotting their escape, the petite Asian beauty is plotting something much more deadly.... Max "Kill It Again" MacKilligan has no idea what one of her own is doing with all these criminal humans until she realizes that Ze has no idea who or what he is. Or exactly how much power he truly has. 

From USA Today bestselling author Jenny Holiday comes a modern fairy tale just in time for Christmas about a tough New Yorker from the other side of the tracks who falls for a princess from the other side of the world. Leo Ricci's already handling all he can, between taking care of his little...

While exploring the beach, four adventurous children make the acquaintance of a very odd creature: a sand fairy. When they have adapted to the brusque and forthright demeanor of the fairy, they discover that he has unusual powers, which he can be persuaded to demonstrate. As a result, the children enjoy many bizarre adventures, some of which are dangerous, but all of which are entertaining. Five Children and It is the first volume of a trilogy.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer and Hook, Line, and Sinker brings the heat in this rom-com about two enemies who team up to flip a house because their chemistry will either burn the place down or ignite a passion that neither can ignore... Hair, makeup...

One summer. One stranger. One killer.... Two bad things happened that summer: a stranger arrived. And the first girl disappeared. In the wake of the crime that rocked her hometown, Felicity fled, knowing more than she let on. But 16 years later, her new life is shattered by the news that a second girl has gone missing in Sidmouth. 

They are sworn enemies… Theodore Prescott the Third, one of Manhattan’s Rogues of Millionaire Row, has really done it this time. The only way to survive his most recent, unspeakably outrageous scandal is marry someone respectable. Someone sensible. Someone like Daisy Swann. Of all the girls...

Kurz vor Weihnachten erwartet Dr. Hamilton hohen Besuch. Der Privatsekretär des Königs eines kleinen Landes kommt in Begleitung von Prinz Sonam, dem Sohn des Königs. Sie wollen sich auf der Green Valley-Ranch ein Pferd ansehen. Und so bekommt Leonie die einmalige Gelegenheit, mit einem echten Prinzen über den Sinn von Weihnachten zu sprechen! Doch der Prinz ist in Gefahr. Hinterhältige Männer suchen nach ihm. Sie wollen ihn abhalten, in seinem Königreich den Thron zu besteigen. Leonie und ihre Freundinnen müssen alles dafür tun, damit der Prinz nicht gefunden wird.

Was ist denn da passiert? Auf der Koppel der Green Valley Ranch steht plötzlich ein Pferd, das Leonie noch nie gesehen hat - samt Sattel und Zaumzeug. Schnell zeigt sich, dass das Pferd zu einem Reiter gehört, der beim Reiten in der Nähe der Ranch abgeworfen wurde. Beim Aufprall hat der junge Mann sein Gedächtnis verloren. Er weiß weder wer er ist, noch wo er herkommt. Dr. Hamilton schaltet sofort die Polizei ein. Doch dann wird die Situation immer merkwürdiger.

Green Valley ist von einer schlimmen Dürre betroffen. Der Astoria Creek ist völlig ausgetrocknet und es gibt kein Wasser mehr für die Tiere und Pflanzen der Bewohner. Nicht mehr lange und Silvercloud und die anderen Pferde müssen an einen anderen Ort gebracht werden, damit sie weiter versorgt werden können. Dann taucht auch noch der Fremde Duncan Portwater auf, der den Bewohnern des Tals Wasser verkaufen will. Wieso hat er genug davon? Merkwürdig, denkt nicht nur Leonie. Hat er etwas mit dem ausgetrockneten Fluss zu tun, oder haben vielleicht die Mono-Indianer den Fluss umgeleitet?