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Detective Inspector Harry Charlton finds himself invited to a reunion at Mereworth School at whic...
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'First published by Faber and Faber Ltd. 1965'--Copyright page.
'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...
One of the most famous children's books reviewer chooses 100 classics from 400 years.
Christmas Stories gathers together some of the previously unpublished winter themed and Christmas...
The 27th century: beleaguered elites decide to melt the Greenland icecap. Why? - to open up a new...
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...
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...
An incredibly moving and well written account of a visit to Auschwitz
In the early 1950s Reid went to Mallorca for a holiday and in Deya happened to meet Robert Graves...
It is impossible to give a concise summary of this extraordinary novel that's been likened to Cer...
Burgess considered D. H. Lawrence to be one of the pillars of English literature and indeed a Mod...
Scattered Limbs is a collection of anecdotes, observations and opinions, which restores a mytholo...
George Mackay Brown's first book of poems, reprinted with illustrations from Orkney.
Wild Geese contains a previously unpublished short story 'Descent from the Cross', a dozen also p...
Undertones is a reference book on jazz in crime fiction. As this historical overview shows, crime...
'The tendency nowadays to wander in wilderness is delightful to see. Thousands of tired, nerve-sh...
Sadao Hibi''s superbly composed photographs show Japan''s best known gardens in a variety of styl...
An anthology of some of the best known authors and illustrators from the First World War
Ian McEwan: 'This is a brilliant and extremely useful guide, approachable on every level. Boyd To...
It will come as a very pleasant surprise to Nan Shepherd's growing following that there is a body...
The author's choice of the 100 best nonfiction books in English spanning 400 years. Each entry ha...
The only book of poems from this legendary author (who wrote the still bestselling The Living Mou...
This is surely a delight for any child who lives in Cambridge, or indeed has ever visited the cit...
It is 1940 and Mrs Mudge, the cleaning lady is busy tidying the Little Theatre in Lulverton, whic...
A gripping thriller set in the world famous artist's colony in Mallorca. Deia is a small and idyl...
'The poems are from Inventions of the march hare: poems 1909-1917. Text copyright 1996' -- verso ...
Born in the small community of Whithorn in Galloway, Scotland, Alastair Reid (1926-2014) became o...
A collection of George Mackay Brown''s Chistmas and Winter stories.
John Rutherford, bookseller and sometime fiction writer, discovers the bludgeoned corpse of a pol...
In the 1930s Nan Shepherd was one of Scotland's best-known writers. Three novels, The Quarry Wood...
1000 Piece jigsaw collage puzzle featuring characters from all of Quentin's most famous children'...
'A go-to destination for students of the finer things in life, the Villa des Pinales is set high ...
It is carnival time in Nice, and for three weeks the boulevards are alive with dancers, jugglers ...
The scene is The Blue Boar in the High Street, Lulverton. The occasion: the stag party planned to...
Captain Paul Darac of the Brigade Criminelle arrives at a crime scene to find a woman's mutilated...
Those already familiar with The Lost Words - A Spell Book will know it as a work full of wildness...
In the heat of a French summer, Captain Paul Darac of the Nice Brigade Criminelle is called to a ...
'AM IN GREAT TROUBLE, please come at once. Duds.' It is the aftermath of the Second World War and...
Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) composed his epic trilogy of South America under difficult circumstance...