Detective Inspector Harry Charlton finds himself invited to a reunion at Mereworth School at whic...

archy and mehitabel is a collection of humorous verses by Don Marquis, originally published from ...

On the eve of World War II, Lady Lupin Hastings, the young, totally scatterbrained but kindly wif...

A master criminal with a twinkle in his eye, a baffled police force, and Paris as their playgroun...

A collage of 35 bird and 13 egg illustrations from Jackie Morris' paintings from the upcoming The...

This volume is a major event in both the James Joyce and Anthony Burgess literary annals. It not ...

The Napoleon which Burgess gives us is a comic tyrant, a conqueror with bad breath, an emperor wh...

'My book does not pretend to scholarship, only to a desire to help the average reader who sees al...

'All summer, Captain Paul Darac of Nice's Brigade Criminelle has been in a happy place with the w...

John Richard Jefferies (6 November 1848 - 14 August 1887) was an English nature writer, noted for...

Christmas Stories gathers together some of the previously unpublished winter themed and Christmas...

It is 1980's Los Angeles. Alys, a wealthy young dilettante accepts the invitation of a stranger t...

A 1000 piece jigsaw featuring 40 incredible paintings of Allied and German Austrian aircraft of t...

A Village Festival, with a Theatrical Performance and a Procession in Honour of St Hubert and St ...

This is the author's choice of the 100 best English language novels spanning 400 years.. Each ent...

How, where and why was a man (a commercial traveller who turns out to be a polygamist) suddenly r...

Gloucester, Massachusetts was founded nearly 400 years ago, being one of the very first of the En...

'I feel the net drawing in around me even closer and closer. Dufydd has appeared suddenly in Sout...

This is the author's choice of the 100 best English language novels spanning 400 years.. Each ent...

Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917) was a British poet, essayist, and novelist. He is commonly considered...

In 1976 Farrar Strauss published the 5th novel by an American writer who had been gathering momen...

An incredibly moving and well written account of a visit to Auschwitz

It is impossible to give a concise summary of this extraordinary novel that's been likened to Cer...

In the early 1950s Reid went to Mallorca for a holiday and in Deya happened to meet Robert Graves...

Burgess considered D. H. Lawrence to be one of the pillars of English literature and indeed a Mod...

The creator of the Arsene Lupin, Maurice Leblanc, was born in Rouen in 1864. At the request of a ...

Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) composed his epic trilogy of South America under difficult circumstance...

Jade Vine (Strongylodon macrobotrys) Housed within the Glasshouses at Cambridge University Botani...

When did you last hear of a poetry book selling in the millions? Well, since 1958 when John Betje...

The lost art of brass rubbing, crooked antiques dealers, and smuggling all figure in this tale of...

It is slowly and insidiously that evil comes to the cathedral city of Storminster. Old scandals a...

Tom was born and raised in Mill Valley, California, on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais. The rugged sc...

In 1930, Guy Brangley, an unsuccessful playwright, stages his own disappearance in order to provo...

Ted Nasmith is a Canadian artist, illustrator and architectural renderer. He is best known as an ...

Work was mounting up, Detective Inspector Charlton did not feel too well and he could have done w...

When, in 1963, Anthony Burgess finally started work on the novel he had long planned to write, a ...

The Lost Spells is a book authored by Robert Macfarlane and illustrated by Jackie Morris. They ar...

Towards the end of 1937, having just completed his South American Amazonas trilogy (The Land with...

This colourful montage of scenes from Gloucester MA celebrates the 400th anniversary of the found...

Scattered Limbs is a collection of anecdotes, observations and opinions, which restores a mytholo...

Alchemy is the leitmotif of this gripping novel, set against a richly authentic backdrop of 1840s...

Wild Geese contains a previously unpublished short story 'Descent from the Cross', a dozen also p...

George Mackay Brown's first book of poems, reprinted with illustrations from Orkney.

'A go-to destination for students of the finer things in life, the Villa des Pinales is set high ...

Ulysses and Finnegans Wake are usually found in most lists of the great classics of the twentieth...

The Fitzwilliam's outstanding collection of botanical art came to the Museum through the Broughto...

The death of a brilliant young scientist in the department of chemistry at Cambridge shocks both ...

Little Biggling: a village that had been taken over by The Ministry of Scientific Research during...