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

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

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

Alistair Greenwood, Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge, hosts a luncheon at his faul...

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

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

MacDonald Harris's posthumously published novel is set in the 1920's against a backdrop of airshi...

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One Hand Clapping is the story of Janet and Howard Shirley, living a dreary life in the dreary fi...

An extremely powerful image by master Canadian illustrator Ted Nasmith. It depicts the scene wher...

The view is from the shoulder of Mt. Tamalpais that drops down to the sea at Stinson Beach with B...

Those already familiar with The Lost Words will know it as a work full of wildness, beauty and po...

'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...

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Prior to the Great War, poems, ballads, and stories of conflict, from the Iliad onwards, told of ...

Christmas Stories gathers together some of the previously unpublished winter themed and Christmas...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

Part autobiography, part fiction and part history, this offers a new approach to the horrors of A...

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...

A beautiful fictional biography of Betjeman.

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...

Ian McEwan: 'This is a brilliant and extremely useful guide, approachable on every level. Boyd To...

Tom Pow is one of the most respected Scottish poets on the literary scene and his first new colle...

It will come as a very pleasant surprise to Nan Shepherd's growing following that there is a body...

Expanding from the two-year long 'Observer' serial drawing attention to the best of non-fiction, ...

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...

A forgotten gem from the author of Berlin Alexanderplatz.

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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.