B format paperback (198mm x 130mm) 102pp cover design by Alexandra Andries
Gertrude Stein started to write this book as a collection of short prose poems in 1912. Its reception on its publication in 1914 (and since) has been diverse. It has …
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Recovering from an illness, Rachel, an 18-year-old art student at the Slade in London, is advised to spend a year in a warm climate. She agrees to go to France …
The Alone to the Alone was first published in 1947. It came, Gwyn Thomas recalled, as the “last gasp of the first violent mood” of creation with which he had …
E. W. HORNUNG’s gentleman criminal creation A. J. Raffles was a milestone in British detective fiction. Based on his friend George Cecil Ives, who was a talented cricketer and criminologist, …
The Angel and the Cuckoo contains three love stories, all connected by Steve Zobrany, proprietor of The Angel And The Cuckoo, a café in a hidden courtyard at one end …
William Henry Davies was born in a pub and learnt early in life to rely on his wits and his fists—and to drink. Around the turn of the century, when …
A forgotten gem of British literature, a love story mined from a rich seam of Welsh writing in English. The Battle to the Weak captures lives of rural women in …
Paperback, 394pp Cambridge University Press, 2019 This book offers engaging and informative essays about the social impact and historical importance of the sport of boxing. It includes a comprehensive chronology …
Written in 1943 during the Second World War, The Captain’s Wife is set sixty years before, when the rhythms of traditional Welsh culture were still intact, and losses and tragedies were …
The Caves of Alienation is a story of unfolding revelation about the difficult, fascinating character of Caradock. His family made their fortune from the industry of Wales, but his cosseted childhood …
Mary Roberts Rinehart was prolific and hugely successful in her time; her first novel was published in 1906, her last in 1952. She is often referred to as the American …
BRITISH RETRO SERIES : BR11 C format paperback (216mm x 135mm) gatefold cover, 256pp cover design by Alexandra Andries
The Country of the Pointed Firs, published in 1896, is a prime example of the American color novel, its theme, of its locality or community, more prominent than its use …
This new edition of The Dancing Bear includes an afterword by Frances Faviell’s son, John Parker, and additional supplementary material. Dean Street Press, 9781911413790 Paperback
Sex, murder, and a devastating, humour mark these three novellas that Gwyn Thomas wrote in 1946. In Oscar, the narrator of death and exploitation fails to fend off the evil …
Set in Hollywood, where West had been working for several years as a scriptwriter, this novel was published in 1939, and was West’s last published piece before his early death. …
BRITISH RETRO SERIES : BR10 C format paperback (216mm x 135mm) gatefold cover, 224pp cover design by Alexandra Andries
The Diamond as Big as the Ritz was published first in The Smart Set magazine in June, 1922; it was included later that year in his second collection of stories, …