Edited and introduced by Jenni Calder. Haunted by a sense that the living and the dead are sepa...
This early novel has many story lines. Central character Anne Ross is still young at age 23, but ...
Mary loves her husband Major Ochterlony, and their marriage is happy - except when the fidgety Ma...
Colonel and Mrs Kingsward have been travelling in Germany with their three eldest children, for t...
Though Scottish-born author Margaret Oliphant dabbled in a remarkable number of literary genres o...
When John Erskine was still a child he had inherited the house and estate of Dalrulzian in Scotla...
17-year-old Susan and her brother 22-year-old Horace live a lonely life on Lanmoth Moor in Cumbri...
The Reverend Mr Buchanan holds an important position in the university town of St Rule's, but his...
Excerpt: The village of Watcham is not a village in the ordinary sense of the word, and yet it is...
Excerpt: Mr and Mrs Robert Drummond lived in a pretty house in the Kensington district; a house, ...
15-year-old Mary Peveril and her widowed clergyman father seem to be everything to each other - u...
Excerpt: The Banking House of the Vernons was known through all the Home Counties as only second ...