The Horsham House Press: 322 books

Volume five of six of Creswicke's classic military history of the Boer War. This volume covers the period from the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Robert's Entry into Pretoria.

An historical romance story set during the reign of Edward III of England. Next morning the woman Jane Mell brought her better garments to wear, of her best indeed, and, though she wondered why they were sent, for the lack of anything else to do she arrayed herself in them, and braided her...

The fascinating tale of Dick Heldar, the blind painter, told in typical Kipling style.

A small collection of poems for children, based on scenes from Caldwell's own childhood. This concise collection includes favorites such as The Barefoot Time, The Little Hair Trunk, A Fishing Seer, Bobby Dreamed and The Attic Rubbish.

An adventure story based on the idea of the author being held captive on the island of Nuku Hiva, in the Marquesas, during the mid 1850s.

A short story about working on Wall Street in the 1850s. Bartleby is employed in the office of a Manhattan lawyer. At first it seems like a match made in heaven, but the relationship soon deteriorates to the point where the office has to be moved.

Conan Doyle's novella about his character Professor Challenger, the sequel to The Lost World.

Originally published by Swift & Co Food Company, the Kitchen Encyclopedia was an institution in the early part of the 20th century. This book comes with recipes and tips for better domestic living and eating.

A collection of short stories, including The Coupon, After the Dance, Aloysha the Pot, My Dream, There are No Guilty People, and The Young Tsar.

A short novel by Henry James about a newspaper called the Reverberator, and the scandals that ensue following its publication of stories about a French Family.

A dark comedy about the wayward son of a respectable American family who has skipped off to Europe in defiance of his parent's wishes. The family engages Liews Strether to bring him back, but he encounters unforesee complications.

Will Crooks was a British Labour Party politician whose concern for the poor and disadvantaged made him a favourite of the people. This is much more than a biography of Crooks’ life. It is a comment on the living and social conditions of the British working class at the turn of the twentieth century. This edition includes a foreword by G K Chesterton.

The English text version of the Treaty of Waitangi, between the indigenous Maori chiefs of New Zealand and Captain William Hobson, or behalf of the British Crown, signed in Waitangi, New Zealand on 6 February 1840.

In a drunken stupour, Henchard commits a terrible crime  - he sells off his wife and daughter to a stranger. When he sobers up, he vows not to touch alcohol again for another 21 years. Twenty-one years later, having become the Mayor of Casterbridge, he takes his first drink. What grotesque consequences will come of it?