Victor Jones, of Philadelphia gets into a finance trouble in London, having his business broke and owing money to the hotel he stays in. Being desperate and clueless of what to do next, he suddenly meets his lookalike in a crowded hotel lounge. He lets a new acquaintance to liquor him up, next morning finds himself in a posh hotel room, with servants who call him Earl Rochester. Next, he finds out his lookalike has committed a suicide and decides to continue the rich under the name of Rochester. He gets into numerous troubles left behind Rochester's turbulent life and being an honest man tries to bring them all to an order. But suddenly, he meets a woman, that is Rochester's wife and unexpectedly falls in love with her.

When Tom Castro declared himself to be Roger, the Tichborne heir, and headed for London to claim his inheritance, not even Roger’s mother could tell them apart. By 1871 he was the most notorious celebrity in Great Britain or Australia. But who was he? And what was his story?

Prologue: a man of many worlds -- The island of St. Croix -- "A house negro"--"The mulatto Hans Jonathan" -- "Said to be the secretary" -- Among the sugar barons -- Copenhagen -- A child near the royal palace -- "He wanted to go to war" -- The general's widow v. the mulatto -- The verdict -- Iceland -- A free man -- Mountain guide -- Factor, farmer, father -- Farewell -- Descendants -- The Jonathan family -- The Eirikssons of New England -- Who stole whom? -- The lessons of history -- Epilogue: biographies

Arthur Brownjohn has never quite got anything right. Take the murder of his wife – a bungled, inferior affair despite his having consulting all the experts in the field of killings, executions and dastardly deeds. Resolving never to repeat the same mistakes, he enlists the help of Major Easonby Mellon – a man who really knows what he’s doing...

The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.

When John Harvey's watch stops working on the morning of February 3rd, 1987, he has an epiphany. It occurs to him that every personal trauma he is trying to forget has had one thing in common: they all occurred at some point on the face of that very watch. The loss of his job, the death of his child, Zola's suicide, all contained right there in that tiny circle of finite numbers. So he smashes the watch. Problem solved. But when John steps out the door to make his daily trek to the local bar as a man newly freed from the tyrannies of time, he is met by a snowstorm that renders him completely blind, and a walk that should have taken just a few minutes begins to feel like years. Because as John Harvey wanders alone through the snow with no sun nor sign to guide him, the twenty-eight year old misanthrope is confronted by the vivid manifestation of every ghost he has devoted his lonely life to avoiding. In the storm he is forced to finally accept the suffering he has been hiding from. In the storm he is forced to understand that the only thing worse than never truly seeing is never truly being seen. In the storm he is forced, for once, to watch.

"The Man Who Lost Himself" by H. De Vere Stacpoole is a comedy-drama novel. The plot revolves around an American from Philadelphia, Victor Jones, arriving in London to find himself the exact Doppelgänger of a British aristocrat. American Victor Jones finds himself penniless and stranded in London. He meets the Earl of Rochester, and the similarity between the two is so noticeable that even friends mistake Jones for the Earl. To escape his own troubles, the Earl gets Jones drunk and sends him to the Rochester mansion in his place.

Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected with an entertaining voice.

In the 1980s and 1990s, thousands of women wrote to psychiatrist M. Scott Peck, MD, to thank him for pulling them through difficult patches of their lives with his ground-breaking and best-selling self-help book, The Road Less Traveled. Yet Peck's own life was in turmoil. While his readers, and those who attended his spiritual workshops and talks, told him how his words had helped them make decisions about their marriages, careers, insecurities and self-doubts, in 1992 one woman told Life magazine that after one spiritual group session she had been seduced by Peck.M. Scott Peck's The Road Less Traveled began with the words, "Life is difficult." He made it difficult for his family, so difficult that only two of his three children attended his funeral. Arthur Jones' Boomer Guru explores that dichotomy in a deeply researched biography based primarily on hours of recorded interviews with the frank but conflicted guru. This biography of "the nation's shrink" is that rare account: a psychiatrist on the couch. Peck's The Road Less Traveled had more than 10 million "boomer" readers. The book spent more than a decade on the New York Times Best Seller List, longer than any other book by a living author in that category. On the 10th anniversary of Peck's death, this candid biography of the boomer guru is an intriguing recap of both the times and the man.

WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 1996 WINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE 1997 'A narrative both sparkling and deep . . . the cost of raising [the Titanic] is prohibitive; Bainbridge does the next best thing' Hilary Mantel 'Brilliant . . . do not miss this novel' Daily Telegraph 'A moving, microcosmic portrait of an era's bitter end' The Times For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers are played out, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.