A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.

This work is the only comprehensive guide to sequels in English, with over 84,000 works by 12,500 authors in 17,000 sequences.

A reference book for librarians and users of public libraries which provides easy access to information on good recreational reading. This revised edition features expanded coverage of mystery and science fiction. New indexes allow access by subject, genre and main characters.

Pioneering and interdisciplinary in nature, this bibliography constitutes a comprehensive list of regional fiction for every county of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England over the past two centuries. In addition, other regions of a usually topographical or urban nature have been used, such as Birmingham and the Black Country; London; The Fens; the Brecklands; the Highlands; the Hebrides; or the Welsh border. Each entry lists the author, title, and date of first publication. The geographical coverage is encompassing and complete, from the Channel Islands to the Shetlands. An original introduction discusses such matters as definition, bibliographical method, popular readerships, trends in output, and the scholarly literature on regional fiction.

Unfolding in Worcestershire in the 1880s, young Beth Tewke is coming to terms with a tragic loss. Resplendent with richly evocative scenes of country life and filled with warm and intriguing characters, Apple tree lean down follows the fortunes of Beth and her family through the seasons of birth and loss, marriage and hope.