A Room with a View: Penguin Classics

E M Forster

This Edwardian social comedy explores love and prim propriety among an eccentric cast of characters assembled in an Italian pensione and in a corner of Surrey, England. A charming young English woman, Lucy Honeychurch, faints into the arms of a fellow Britisher when she witnesses a murder in a Florentin...

Mr Birthday (Mr Men & Little Miss)

Roger Hargreaves

Mr Birthday loves to organise a party (he likes them so much he is never seen without his party hat on) and never forgets a birthday. That's why Mr Birthday is stumped when Mr Happy tells him not to forget the extra special birthday next week. Whose birthday could it be?...

Cold Comfort Farm

Stella Gibbons

'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm.' Sensible, sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living. When she is orphaned at twenty, she decides her only option is to descend on relatives - the doomed Sta...