One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. He sets off with his valet Passepartout, and passes through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and racing against the clock.

This text is a revised edition of Dickens' classic tale. After 18 years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Dr Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. Two very different men become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette.

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The first in the fantastically successful Harry Potter series

This classic of American literature is a tale of bravery and bloodshed and warring tribes in the early American frontier. The readings are supplemented by music from Smetana, Mussorgsky and Koechlin.

The ultimate story of escape to riches, revenge and redemption by 'the Napoleon of storytellers'.

Prince Roger MacClintock was an heir to the galaxy's Throne of Man - and a self-obsessed spoiled young brat...until he and the Royal Marines sent to protect him were stranded on Marduk with only their feet to get them half way around the entire planet.

A peaceful integration of the Cluster with the Star Kingdom turns violent when a powerful alliance of corrupt Solarian League bureaucrats and interstellar corporations are determined to prevent the annexation by any means necessary.

For eight years, Commodore Honor Harrington has been in the forefront of the battle between the Star Kingdom of Manticore and the vastly more powerful People's Republic of Haven. Now Honor has fallen, captured by the Peep Navy.

For Captain Honor Harrington, it's sometimes hard to know who the enemy is. Offered a chance to reclaim her career, she is given command of a squadron of merchantment, and ordered to stop the pirates who are plundering the Kingdom's commerce. But the pirates are not all they seem.

From the bestselling author and creator of 'Dilbert' comes a thought provoking exploration of life's greatest mysteries (everything from quantum physics and God to psychic phenomena and dating) that will quickly capture the attention and imagination.

The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naive locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge.