p.164.fictionA biographical book written in the late 19th century by J. M. Barrie, about his mother and family life in Scotland. women - biography, margaret ogilvy

p.276.fictionFrom the creator of Peter Pan, My Lady Nicotine is one of his earlier works. Focusing on his days as a smoker, J.M. Barrie takes us through his life as a smoker to his last pipe as he begins his non-smoking days. Barrie's humorous essays about his companions, habits and quitting are sure to delight readers.smoking - history, tobacco - addiction

p.287.fictionAuld Licht Idylls" is Barrie's second book and first serious work of fiction, a series of stories centering around a religious sect called Auld Licht in the Scottish community of Thrums.scotland - fiction, scotland - religion

p.331fictionThis 1861 historical romance was Reade's most popular novel with readers and critics alike. Set in the 15th century, and notable for the author's painstaking fidelity to period detail, the novel concerns the adventures of a young illuminator of manuscripts, Gerard Eliason, as he travels through Europe and embraces then renounces a religious vocation. england - fiction, romantic fiction

p.373.fictionTells the story of Hereward, a historical Anglo-Saxon figure who led resistance against the Normans from a base in Ely surrounded by fen land.england - fiction, norman england

p.388.fictionThe adventures of Tom, a sooty little chimney sweep with a great longing to be clean, who is stolen by fairies and turned into a water baby. england - fiction, fairytales - english

p.429.fictionPortrays the married life of Henrietta Stuart, known as Minette, who married into the French royal family in the mid-seventeenth century. In particular it focuses on her careful diplomatic relationship with her brother Charles II, climaxing in the Treaty of Doverengland - fiction, historical fiction

p.223.fictionThe Countess of Lochlule marries Sir Hector, owner of the estate next to 'Keepsfield', the palatial Scottish mansion where she lives. But one day she meets someone on a park bench in Edinburgh. This novel is about dreams and the hard world of money and position and their relations to one another.england - fiction, romantic fiction

p.310.non-fictionReminiscences of L'Espionage Centrale, the secret service of the French Foreign Legion.french foreign legion, secret service - france

p.348.fictionNapoleons retreat from Moscow in all its terrible detailengland - fiction, napoleonic wars

p.348.fictionNapoleons retreat from Moscow in all its terrible detailengland - fiction, napoleonic wars

p.320.non-fictionIndian life as described by a British soldierindia - social life and customs, india - description and travel

p.278.non-fictionAutobiography of a British cavalry officer in pre-war India and on the western front, who later became a member of the Royal flying corps in Mesopotamia. The closing chapters concern his subsequent travels in India and give his interpretation of the Hindu philosophy through the medium of his own personal experience. india - social life and customs, india - description and travel

p.329.fictionA novel of the early Stuart periodengland - fiction, stuart monarchy

p.268non-fictionA record of a 1929-30 historical trip by a Baby Austin car from Adelaide to daly Waters in the Northern Territory, then the return journey to Melbourne in a Vauxhall.northern australia - description and travel, australia - social life and customs

p.399.non-fictionThe travels of a music lover in Hungary and Roumaniahungary - music, roumania - music

p.404fictionNo summary recordedscottish fiction, william black

p.322.fictionNo summary recordedaustralian fiction, mrs mm phillips

p.312.fictionAmong other things this book narrates how Mrs Bindle caught a chill, how a nephew was born to her and what effect it had upon her outlook.england - fiction, satire - england

Ill, p.403.fictionThe novel follows the story of a group of men who are stranded on a lighthouse located on the Goodwin Sands, a treacherous group of sandbars located in the English Channel. The men must find a way to survive as they are constantly beset by storms and high seas. The novel is an example of naturalist fiction, which focuses on the natural world and its effects on humans.england - fiction, adventure fiction

Ill, map, p.310.fictionBeing the adventures of David Balfour : how he was kidnapped and cast away, his sufferings in a desert isle, his journey in the wild highlands, his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites, with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so-calledscotland - fiction, adventure fiction

p.255.fictionWhen Bert Smallways is accidentally whisked off to Germany in a balloon carrying plans for a top-secret aeroplane, he gets involved in Prince Karl Albert's massive airship raid on New York ... first step in a war which soon flares into world wide catastrophe.air warfare - fiction, science fiction - english

Ill, p.317.non-fictionAn examination of the history and criticism of 20th century literatureliterature - criticism, literature - history

Ill, p.312.An autobiography of British journalist Henry Collinsjournalists - great britain - biography, reuters - biography

p.192An unmarried by mathematically precise Englishman dismisses his valet for heating his shaving water two degrees cooler than usual. He hires a French valet to replace him and the two of them set off to travel around the world in eighty days - a supposedly possible feat, now that the Indian railways have been built. If they succeed they will win a fortune off the other members of the Reform Club.adventure fiction, voyages - fiction

p.448.non-fictionThis book is an abbreviation of my three volumes of memories, Changes and chances (1923), More changes More Chances (1925), Last Changes Last Chances (1928)great britain - history, henry nevinson - memoirs

Index, p.338.non-fictionHenry Nevinson was a socialist. His views on injustice are detailed here in a series of essaysengland - literature, socialism

p.322.fictionBret Harte was known best orr his descriptions of gold rushes in Americaamerican literature, gold rushes - america

p.462fictionA romantic novel by Charles Readeengland - fiction, romantic fiction

p.1247.fictionA collection of the works of Oscar Wilde including stories, plays, poems, letters, and essaysenglish literature, english fiction - 19th century