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ربى أبوغيدا كاتبة وشاعرة فلسطينية لبنانية.  مسقط رأسها لندن، عاشت طفولتها في الكويت وقبرص.  بدأت حياتها الجامعية في مونتريال ولندن. درست الأدب والكتابة في جامعة أكسفورد وأكملت دراستها العليا في …

The book produced to accompany an art exhibition in the Albion Beatnik Bookstore for Oxford Arts Week 2016. The paintings, collages, sketches, were fifty alternative book covers designed by Oxford-based …

Frances Faviell lived in Chelsea before and during the London Blitz, having became a Red Cross volunteer when World War II began. Chelsea was particularly heavily bombed and the author …

This was Lowell’s first collection, published in 1912 when she was 38. Her first poem had been published only two years previously, and this immature work, based on a volume …

Controversial when first published in the early days of World War II, due to its treatment of a loathsome upper-crust family dodging wartime responsibility, A Footman for the Peacock can …

Hilarious, shocking, and heartbreaking in turn, A Harp in Lowndes Square is like no other Rachel Ferguson novel. Perhaps her most personal work – and the closest she ever came …

Having made her publishing debut with The Dancing Bear, a superb memoir of life in Berlin immediately after World War II, Frances Faviell applied first-hand knowledge to fiction, telling the …

Susan Glaspell was a jack of several trades and a master of most: she was a Pulitzer prize-winning playwright, novelist and writer of short stories, a journalist and an actress. She …

An elderly farmer dies, following an accident on a remote  mid-Wales smallholding, leaving the kingdom he had ruled over so fiercely to his two daughters, Lucy and Cadi. As they …

Written and published in 1923, this book is held by some to be Willa Cather’s masterpiece. Marian Forrester is the book’s main character, a flawed beauty who manages to lose …

Hannah Ellis is thirty-five, unmarried and still living at Y Glyn, the family farm in Wales where she has been brought up by her mother and step-father, a forbidding man …

This is the earliest of Henry James’ written works that the author himself included in his own collected New York Edition of 1907-09, when he revised it for the fifth …

A Small Country is the story of the Evans family, farmers in Carmarthenshire. In the summer of 1914 son Tom returns from Oxford to find the family falling apart. His …

A Time to Laugh is set in a coal-mining valley on the eve of the 20th century against a background of industrial unrest and social change. The old certainties of …

Twenty short stories by women writers, reflecting their realities, dreams and personal images of Wales – from the industrial communities of the south to the hinterlands of the rural west …

First published in 1902, A Welsh Witch parallels a superstitious fishing village and an early industrial community with its harsh working conditions, and explores the ways in which human resilience and …

Young Maud has made her escape from an overbearing stepmother and come to stay with her cousin Alice and Alice’s companion Miss Conway in the countryside. Alice and “Con” have …

A Woman’s Work is Never Done, first published in 1957, is a rare first-hand account of a childhood and family life in the Rhondda at the end of the nineteenth …

The eponymous Albert is an architect by training but a supply teacher out of necessity. Feeling that he is failing at both, and haunted by a failed love affair, he …

BRITISH SPORTS BOOK AWARDS SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR The most comprehensive and definitive biography of Muhammad Ali that has ever been published, based on more than 500 interviews with …