Gerald Kersh places his story in bohemian London, peoples it with artists and criminals and dresses it in the mystery genre, but his real concern is to find the hungry …
Paperback, 192pp History Press, 2020 Texas Guinan was the queen of New York’s speakeasies in the Roaring Twenties. Her clubs were backed by leading gangsters and welcomed some of the …
Sarah Gillespie is the most original singer/songwriter in the UK at the moment; her four albums have received widespread critical acclaim and much radio airplay in the UK and on public …
Queen of the Rushes, first published in 1906 and considered to be Raine’s best novel, is set in a seaside village in West Wales at the time of the 1904 …
Paperback, 244pp Promethean Press, 2008 In 1892, while training for his historic fight with Gentleman Jim Corbett, undefeated heavyweight boxing champion John L. Sullivan wrote “Reminiscences of a 19th Century …
The ten stories of Rhapsody, together with the three previously uncollected pieces added to this edition, are utterly distinctive in voice and sensibility. At least three of the Rhapsody stories …
Ride the White Stallion is the sequel to Farewell Innocence, charting the trials and travails of Ieuan Morgan at the foundry and in his family life. It is an account of a …
In the spring of 1949, Jack Agass belatedly returns from the war to the working class street in Islington where he grew up. A proud, supportive community — with a …
Sisters Edith and Rose have rather come down in the world by keeping their hotel, Seaview House. So Mr Heritage believes, and he’s not pleased when Rose’s daughter Lucy—grown a …
Paperback | 160pp Faber | 9780571327294 Drawn from thirty years of work, this selection, made by the poet himself, gathers from the best of Jamie McKendrick’s six acclaimed collections, including …
Paperback | 128pp Faber, 2000 Sky Nails offers a selection from Jamie McKendrick’s first three collections of poetry, including The Marble Fly, which was both a Poetry Book Society Choice …
Smouldering Fire was first published in the UK in 1935 and in the U.S. in 1938. Later reprints were all heavily abridged. this is the first unabridged edition of the …
Carola Oman’s irresistible sequel to Nothing to Report begins with young, perky Philippa-Dawn Johnson, preparing to launch her nursing career at Woodside, the country home now overseen as a hospital …
From an impromptu wedding in the early days of World War II, to a bout with German measles in a hospital reminiscent of a medieval torture chamber, to becoming the …
Young Frances Field arrives in a scenic coastal village in Scotland, having escaped her dreary life as an orphan treated as little more than a servant by an uncle and …
Paperback, 320pp Penguin, 2020 The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the American Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation …
Paperback, 384pp, illus Lyons Press, 2015 John L. Sullivan was the first modern heavyweight boxing champion of the world, a man who was the gold standard of American sport for …
This novel was published first in 1917. It is one of only two of Wharton’s novels set in New England and, unlike most of her fiction which depicts an urban …
Marjorie Wilenski’s only novel, as biting and funny as Barbara Pym at her crankiest, follows an office of women translators at the fictional Ministry of Foreign Intelligence in London as …