A pair of elderly travellers believed that, after China and Japan, they could easily cope with Korea. They learnt the hard... More > way that no concessions are made to foreign tourists at all - because there are none - and ended up in a brothel. < Less

Self-improvement has never been so erotic. Or so funny. Combine profit with sensual pleasure, sheer entertainment with... More > instruction. Based on twenty years' experience, Helen Baker tells you how to achieve both."What an extraordinary book you've written! I enjoyed it wholeheartedly, kept laughing and laughing at the poor Frenchmen, I hope other teachers and students will find your book!" liisa.halme@elisanet.fi < Less

A complete guide, based on personal experience, of how to go abroad - to earn big money - and not return broke. This book,... More > full of insider tips, tells you what business courses, the expatriate press and professional advisers do not. < Less

Humorous romp when a dull typing teacher in rural Somerset uncovers an angel and she is mistaken for Eve. The repercussions... More > reverberate around the world and it takes all the skill of her attractive lawyer to keep her alive and re-establish sanity. < Less

Two visits to this vast country at an interval of five years gave impressions so violently contrasting that I might be... More > describing two different continents. Love it or loath it - I did both! < Less

Jane Austen's Mansfield Park chronicles the mutual love of Mary Crawford and Edmund Bertram until he abandons his love,... More > claiming that she has forfeited even his respect. Can our flawed heroine, with her beauty, her charm and her twenty thousand pounds ever find a worthy gentleman who will appreciate her for those very qualities that Edmund deplored? How many trials and difficulties must she first surmount while all Regency England echoes to the public debate of her brother's adultery and her dissolute uncle's blatant vice? Can Mary, innocent and kind, despite her worldly standards and cynical friends, stand firm against society's censure? < Less

An entertaining way to maintain and improve your English. 2007 jokes for adults, carefully written in correct (British)... More > English with no crude language. Each joke is supplied with helpful explanations of grammar and background. Native speakers too can enjoy the jokes and learn more than most schools teach about grammar. < Less

Longbourn House in Hertfordshire remains the home of the Bennet family but, five years after the conclusion of Pride and... More > Prejudice, find Kitty and Mary still unwed and discontent. Then Mary's deep reading leads her to a plan. "it was absolutley delightful , so much so that I couldn't stop reading and I've finished it already!!So the apology is for the amount of time it must have took you but you should feel really pleased to impart that much pleasure - I'm only sorry I've finished it now!" < Less

The machinations of the Thorpe family dominate Northanger Abbey. Read now how John Thorpe's extravagance brought his family... More > to the brink of ruin and enabled Captain Tilney to master that proud beauty Isabella Thorpe. Nor would he stop there when she possessed two lovely sisters, one barely sixteen.

Helen Baker modestly presents her eighth book inspired by Jane Austen and hopes it will give as much pleasure and profit in the reading as in the writing. < Less

Longbourn House in Hertfordshire remains the home of the Bennet family but, five years after the conclusion of Pride and... More > Prejudice, find Kitty and Mary still unwed and discontent. Then Mary's deep reading leads her to a plan. "it was absolutley delightful , so much so that I couldn't stop reading and I've finished it already!!So the apology is for the amount of time it must have took you but you should feel really pleased to impart that much pleasure - I'm only sorry I've finished it now!"Dnkhobson@aol.com < Less