Set in 1936 in the village of Tanygraig on the Welsh-English border, this is a passionate novel of love and its consequences. Beti is conscious of living on the border – …
Originally published 1907, The Hill Dreams is regarded as one of Machen’s finest lyrical work. It tells of a young man’s quest for beauty through literature, love, drugs and dreams. This new edition …
Elizabeth Simpson is a secretary having an affair with her married boss. Her father is an air raid warden and her terrified mother takes her courage from concealed bottles of …
Father Brown featured in 53 short stories, the last written in 1938. Chesterton based the character on a priest working in Bradford, the Right Reverend John O’Connor, who was instrumental …
It’s 1919, and Jane Quested and her cousin Lucilla are pulled suddenly from school by their guardian, who sets them up in a cottage on the fringes of London and …
It’s 1919 and Jane and her cousin Lucilla leave school to find that their guardian has gambled away their money, leaving them with only a small cottage in the English …
At the opening of Monica Tindall’s brilliant only novel, Susan Prioleau wishes to investigate the source of the darkness and dysfunctionality in her husband’s family. Susan’s background as a mystery …
Harriett Frean has been raised to become the ideal Victorian woman, able to sacrifice her own desires for the good of others. She has a tumultuous and catastrophic experience when …
Bret Harte became famous for his depiction of life in the Californian Gold Rush, romanticising a world that was nasty, brutish and possibly short. His stories have the hallmark of …
Three short stories are included in this volume; each story is a reflection of the imagination. The Mark on the Wall (the first published story by Woolf, 1917) is a stream …
Winner of 1954 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. Widely regarded as C. P. Snow’s masterpiece, this lucid and compelling story of the contest for the Mastership of a Cambridge …
The Meaning of Apricot Sponge is essential reading for anyone concerned with Wales and the roots of its contemporary identity. This new title includes an essay by Peter Finch, declamatory …
Hester Clifford has come to Mingham to recover from pneumonia, at the invitation of her godmother, Cecily Hutton, an eccentric painter with a predilection for ruins. Hester determines to bring …
This volume contains two short stories. The Monkey’s Paw, published in 1902, is one of the classic stories of the macabre. His writing career took time to gain momentum, and …
From the moment Julia moves to Goatstock, where she has inherited a house, there are plenty of people for her to take an interest in. For a start, there’s cousin …
Bunner, not known in the U.K., is a great example of American nineteenth century humour; Bunner was a successful editor of Puck, the American equivalent to Punch. His poetry is dull …
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This story was based on Crane’s own experience in early 1897; it was published in Scribner’s Magazine later that same year. Crane, sailing to Cuba, was shipwrecked and sailed to …
This story is from Violet Hunt’s first collection of tales of the supernatural, Tales of the Uneasy, published in 1911. More Tales of the Uneasy followed in 1925. These two volumes are …
Not yet published, March 2021 Paperback | 256pp Collins, 2021 | 9780008414153 In a beautiful literary exploration, Sally Bayley tracks the evolution – and the potential twenty first century death of …