2011 August

This dark tale set on the dark moors of Yorkshire charts the doomed love affair of childhood friends Heathcliff and Catherine. But when fate, betrayal and the envy of others tears them apart, the intensity of their love consumes them both with horrific consequences.

An enchanting, romantic and thrilling story of one woman’s struggle to overcome the suffocating social expectations of Victorian England to find happiness on her own terms.

When her unemotional husband returns from war impotent and paralysed, Lady Chatterley finds herself in an unsatisfying marriage and starts a passionate affair with her husband’s gamekeeper Oliver Mellors. Initially banned because of its sexual content, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the story of one woman’s desire.

Jane Austen’s final novel is both a love story and a humorous, yet acidic, satire of the English aristocracy that follows the story of the Elliots, a rich titled family forced from their home thanks to the lavish spending of the vain Sir Walter Elliot.

Although she has no interest in love or marriage herself, Emma Woodhouse likes nothing more than being the match-maker of Highbury village. But when her best-laid plans for others go comically wrong, she finds out just how little she knows about love…

In this classic tragedy, Tess is sent to live with the wealthy D’Urbervilles after her poor father discovers a family connection. But her father’s dreams of a better life for his daughter ultimately lead to tragedy.

The arrival of the wealthy Charles Bingley in the village of Longbourn could not be better timed for the Bennett household and their five unmarried daughters. But can the headstrong Elizabeth maintain her desire to marry only for love despite the pressure to find a rich suitor?

Jane Austen’s classic tale of the gulf between classes follows the story of Fanny Price, who is rescued from poverty by her wealthy aunt and uncle only to find herself faced by condescension of those around her.

After 17-year-old Catherine Morland falls for Henry Tilney during a stay in Bath, she accepts an invite to stay at his family home, Northanger Abbey. But once there her vivid imagination, fuelled by her love of gothic novels, runs wild…

Despite being sisters the reserved Elinor and the romantic Marianne Dashwood could not be more different. But their parallel search for love leads them to realise that it is both sense and sensibility they need.