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The Scots Queen

Princess Guinevere, the youngest daughter of Edward I of England, at just four years old, was sent to Scotland as the future bride of twelve-year-old Robert the Bruce, scion of the Bruce Clan and great-grandson of David I of Scotland. Since she was a child, Guinevere was put at the center of political games both by her father, who after the death of Alexander III wanted to get his hands on Scotland, and by the Scots, who on the contrary wanted to keep the English away from their territories. Although the marriage between the English princess and the young Bruce was of a political nature, a sincere feeling soon arose between the two, jeopardized by his ambition and her unpredictable nature. A further obstacle to the happy union was William Wallace, a fascinating leader who embraced the Scottish rebellion, and by allying himself with the patriot Andrew de Moray, made the throne of England tremble.

The Count of Monte Cristo

Before he can marry his fiancée Mercédès, Edmond Dantès, a French nineteen-year-old first mate of the merchant ship Pharaon, is falsely accused of treason, arrested, and imprisoned without trial in the Château d'If, a grim island fortress off Marseille. A fellow prisoner, Abbé Faria, correctly deduces that romantic rival Fernand Mondego, envious crewmate Danglars, and double-dealing magistrate De Villefort are responsible for his imprisonment. Over the course of their long imprisonment, Faria educates Dantès and, knowing himself close to death, inspires him to retrieve for himself a cache of treasure Faria had discovered. After Faria dies, Dantès escapes and finds the treasure. As the fabulously wealthy, powerful and mysterious Count of Monte Cristo, he enters the fashionable Parisian world of the 1830s to avenge himself.

Van Helsing

Count Dracula awakens in 21st century London with the sole aim of taking revenge on his arch-rival: Abraham Van Helsing.

Greek Mythology

All ancient greek gods and goddesses

Tír na nÓg

The book tells the story of seven young fairies: Nives, Daisy, Luna, Sole, Chloé and Mare; who study and live at the St. Patrick school of magic, located on the legendary island of Tìr na nÒg closed to ordinary human beings. The young fairies, during the time spent at the boarding school, find themselves facing dangerous adversaries and saving Tìr na nÒg; but, between battles and magic, they will also experience days of happiness and melancholy, with the related heart problems, just like what happens to normal teenagers.

The Child's House

Lincoln Martin, a priest originally from New Orleans, moves to the English Cotswolds. His twenty-year-old son, Gabriel, is also with him. There, with the help of social worker Hattie Summers, he begins to manage The Child's House, a community where the four boys, Albert, Francis, Mary and Hannah and the au pair Magda live.

Lady Georgie

Georgie is a charming, lively girl who grew up in India. She is very much loved by her father and adored by her two brothers, Abel and Arthur. Her mother, on the other hand, seems to harbor resentment over Georgie especially after the death of her father, for which she is blamed. Eventually, the mother broke the news to her that she was not part of the family and was actually adopted. A gold bracelet is her only clue to the past. After gaining some information of her birth parents who are British, she decided to go to London to find more about her past.

The Rain Before It Falls

Most of the story is told through recordings of an old lady called Rosamond who describes on tape twenty photographs that represent a family's history. The main part of the book consists of descriptions of the various photographs, framed by a background story. While each of these descriptions comprises a chapter there is also a central chapter interrupting this structure which gives a piece of the background story.

The Chronicles of Tír na nÓg

The series tells the story of a group of young girls, with particular magical abilities, formed by Nives, Diamante, Dream, Stella, Flora and Mare. They study at the best college for aspiring witches and magicians, Aretuza, located in the archipelago of Tír na nÒg closed to ordinary humans. The young fairies, during the time spent inside the college, find themselves facing dangerous adversaries and saving Tír na nÓg and the whole kingdom of Avalon; but, between battles and magic, they will also experience days of happiness and melancholy, with the related heart problems, just like normal teenagers.

The Last of the Mohicans

The last members of a dying Native American tribe, the Mohicans -- Uncas, his father Chingachgook, and his adopted half-white brother Hawkeye -- live in peace alongside British colonists. But when the daughters of a British colonel are kidnapped by a traitorous scout, Hawkeye and Uncas must rescue them in the crossfire of a gruesome military conflict of which they wanted no part: the French and Indian War.

The Brides

Aleera is a young girl who, after losing her love due to the fearsome tyrant Vlad III of Wallachia, swears revenge and, together with Marishka, a gypsy whose family was exterminated and Verona a noble woman who fell from grace, car a coup, culminating in his assassination in 1477 and the beginning of the myth of Count Dracula.

Beauty and The Beast

Belle is a young girl who struggles against a patriarchal society to become an avant-garde writer. Her father, a former sailor, who had lost all his fortunes at sea, reveals that they had found the remains of his ship and is therefore forced to leave his beloved daughter with the promise, however, that on his return he would bring her the rose most beautiful he had ever seen. A musical Jukebox based on the tale of the same name by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve

Love is in the Air

Azzurra Esposito is an eighteen-year-old Italian student who decides to go to study in London. She is taken as an au pair in the Davies family, consisting of Elsa, a brilliant Swedish-born lawyer and her husband William, with whom a relationship of confidence is created which later leads to a love affair.

One Wild Moment

Two divorced fathers, Antonio and Lorenzo, take Luna and Maria, daughters aged 17 and 18, on holiday in Sicily, where one of them finds himself seduced by the other's 17-year-old daughter.

Wuthering Heights

It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. It was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction.