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An abridged version of the adventures of the orphan boy who is forced to practice thievery and live a life of crime in nineteenth-century London.

When an attempt to bring Peter and Kate back to their own time is bungled, Peter finds himself stranded in 1763 while The Tar Man, a villainous eighteenth-century criminal, returns with Kate to twenty-first-century London.

Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London school, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

A simplified retelling of the adventures of an orphan boy who lives in the squalid surroundings of a nineteenth-century English workhouse until he becomes involved with a gang of thieves.

An illustrated adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's children's novel in which Sara Crewe, a pupil at Miss Minchin's London School, is left in poverty when her father dies, but is later rescued by a mysterious benefactor.

During World War II, twelve-year-old Harry Tucker finds a suitcase he believes belongs to a German spy and does his best to keep his family safe and turn the spy in to British officials.

A young boy in nineteenth-century London runs away from an unhappy home, finding employment in a wine factory.

A family of men live together in a seedy house in North London. Into this slightly sinister atmosphere the eldest son brings his wife Ruth for a visit.

Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal, friends since serving together in World War II, deal with the problems of love, lust, and the other challenges of raising their families in 1970s London.

Young Rebecca Bloomwood, a financial magazine writer who has dug herself into a huge debt hole with her perpetual shopping, tries to turn her life around when she meets the desirable Luke Brandon.

Explores the details of everyday life in London during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, from 1558 to 1603, discussing building methods, interior decor, gardens, clothing styles, food and drink, education, games, religious tolerance, attitudes toward immigrants, poverty management, and other topics.

Richard Mayhew, a young businessman living in London, helps an injured girl and finds his life changed when he leaves reality and enters the city's underground world of sewers and abandoned subway stations--a world in which the girl he helped is someone of power and nobility.

Opening in the swirling mists of London, the novel revolves around a court case that has dragged on for decades?the infamous Jarndyce and Jarndyce lawsuit, in which an inheritance is gradually devoured by legal costs.

London scholar and murderer Edward Glyver makes his confession about how he sought revenge on Phoebus Rainsford Daunt, the man he believed responsible for everything wrong in his life, especially a missed chance at a large inheritance.