Rosemary Harris

Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.

A daughter of the Sun spends some years on earth enriching the life of an old bamboo cutter, stirring the hearts of young men, and enchanting the Emperor.

A compilation of children's stories from around the world.

Nell Dobell arrives at Innsbruck with her school choir, to sing in a music festival. At the station her party is greeted by a deputation from the Innsbruck choir, and Nell falls out of her carriage on to the platform and straightaway into love with Franz Walther. It seems like an idyll, but this is 1937; Hitler is preparing to march into Austria and Franz is half-Jewish. What future can there be for him and Nell? Poignant and compelling, this is the story of two summers separated by nearly thirty years and two very different romances.

Zed, a Lebanese-British teenager, recalls the agonizing ordeal during which he, as a timid eight-year-old hostage of an Arab terrorist group, learned about courage.

After the Flood subsides, Reuben and his wife leave the Ark and return to Egypt to make a new life for themselves and their animals.

When Paula Holliday agrees to act as exhibit manager for a reclusive artist she's expecting a laidback weekend picking up gardening tips. She doesn't expect to be knee-deep in horticultural sabotage, beheaded gnomes, homicide, and something called The Javits Curse.

HTML rendering of the 1965 Colonial Office publication

Persuaded by Noah's son Ham to go to Egypt in his place and collect two temple cats, Reuben has many adventures before his mission is accomplished.

While spending the summer on a Scottish island, three cousins find themselves reenacting a strange legend involving one of their ancestors and the seals.

In their search for a cure for their handicapped son a former Egyptian slave and his wife become involved in trying to prevent the overthrow of the King of Kemi.

A young boy who lives with his grandmother in impoverished circumstances wishes for a stork to live on their house to bring them good luck.