English Books

Personal travel sketches that move through London streets, prisons, theatres, hospitals, memories, and human encounters.

A tense sea novel about discipline, survival, injustice, and the dangers hidden inside a merchant voyage.

A moving children’s classic about poverty, loyalty, art, and a boy’s devoted dog.

A fantastical voyage through kingdoms where gender, language, learning, and customs are turned upside down.

Ghost stories, strange encounters, moral anecdotes, and observations of late imperial society.

A witty marriage-of-convenience novel about friendship, travel, money, and fashionable happiness.

A mythic epic of gods, kings, rebels, immortals, dynastic conflict, and cosmic destiny.

An archaeological horror novel of ancient Egypt, mesmerism, forbidden knowledge, and the dead.

A luminous fairy tale contrasting greed and generosity through mountains, rivers, and a mysterious golden king.

A child’s city built from household objects becomes a living quest of towers, puzzles, danger, and courage.

Two cousins confront family secrecy, motherhood, respectability, and sacrifice.

A Victorian romance about innocence, artistic life, ambition, and the pressure of London society.

Five stories of rural desire, class, coincidence, moral pressure, and social custom.

A sparkling marriage plot driven by wit, money, and shifting desire.

A fast-moving con game in which every victim wants to believe.

A ballad opera where thieves, lovers, and politicians mirror one another.

A comic tangle of courtship, disguise, and cynical bachelorhood.

A dazzling comedy of greed built around a rich Venetian impostor.

A lively canoe journey through rivers, friendship, weather, and wandering.

The first volume of the great comic novel of chivalry, reading, and reality.

A selection of poems joining war, exile, family, history, friendship, and compassion.

A Victorian family novel about good intentions, charity, and unintended harm.

A luminous travel diary blending landscapes, linked verse, memory, and impermanence.

A journey across China’s mountains, rivers, caves, roads, and changing landscapes.