The neat ship Grosvenor is fully laden and crewed, and slowly traversing the English Channel, rea...

Edith and Bruce Ottley could not be called idyllically married. But a form of love persists betwe...

As the eighteenth century heads toward its tumultuous close, and both France and America hurtle t...

Sarah Sinquier, living with her father and mother, a cathedral canon and his wife, in a town burs...

Cuffy Mahony is a young boy in country Victoria in the late nineteenth century. He lost his fathe...

In 1939, with rumours of war circulating, the poor souls who have been displaced by the Great Dep...

The Celtic Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries produced many fascinating...

It is the early 1950s. Lionel Spote, a young London publisher, has just discovered that he has in...

Sir Lionel Bridgemont, a wealthy young English traveller, and Lavinia Buenafè, a young well-born ...

In two brilliant collections of stories, Reginald (1904) and Reginald in Russia (1910), which spa...

Ada Boucher and Stanley Brent are young things at the time of boaters, parasols, champagne and tr...

This entertaining group of eight essays concerning great crimes of murder reveals the author's af...

It is a long and golden summer in the Edwardian period. London is abuzz with gentlemen in tall ha...

'He knew now that neither the wilderness nor the dark weather, devils, nor the infinite void, mat...

Dormer is an old house with Elizabethanorigins, much added to. It sits, very isolated,in a cup of...

Anna Parrish and Ruby Smith have been intimate friends from childhood. Anna is blonde, coolly int...

Shetland in the dying days of the nineteenth century is a community dedicated to crofting and fis...

Gösta Berling is a failed parson in nineteenth century rural Sweden, too fond of pleasure and the...

In this extraordinary collection of nine stories, called in the original Czech Painful Tales (Tra...

In 1909, ten years had elapsed since Max Beerbohm's last volume of essays. In thetime which had p...

In the late 1930s young Bessie Drew is working in a biscuit factory in Sydney. Her family are not...

'Once again it rang out, and at its awful reiteration the righteous men and the hunt ceased to be...

In this extraordinary piece all of John Cowper Powys' eccentric and wild inventiveness is on disp...

Stella Benson's debut was one of the most acclaimed of her generation: 'One of the brightest, mos...

With his career at its zenith, known universally for his three volumes of magnificently witty sto...

Odette d'Antrevernes, a sheltered and enthusiastic young girl, lives with her widowed mother, her...

Peasant brothers Ivan and Yermil could hardly be more different. Ivan, the elder, is happy in his...

On first publication in 1958, The Daily Telegraph's reviewer said 'Hugo Charteris' Europeans are ...

This dramatic novella is split into two parts. In the first, a young woman of 'New Woman' convict...

Was Lord Byron 'mad, bad and dangerous to know' as Lady Caroline Lamb averred? Does the popular p...

Winifred Holtby met Jean McWilliam in a WAAC camp at Huchenneville in France very near the end of...

Roderick Random's story is a classic rambunctious tale of rags and riches, set in the mid-eightee...

Having served as an older man in Flanders during the First World War, Hugh Lofting, famed author ...

Lucy and Philip are a progressive young couple in a period of extraordinary change - the late 196...

In this novella, first published in 1957, a young couple, Gor Goginog and Rhitha, experience the ...

In the reign of Cleopatra, an insignificant young man is in love. Meïamoun is captivated by his b...

Edward R. Williams is in a terrible state. Set adrift in a world gone awry, he drinks far too muc...

It is the late 1920s, and beautiful young Eve Wentworth is in a sticky situation. Both Harold and...

Before the publication of The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame's reputation was quite differe...

Ada Leverson's second novel is a delightful and witty tangle of love and attraction at cross-purp...

Miss Ethel Browne is a typical adornment of her era. A single lady of a certain age in the period...

On the 7th of January, 1888, a young Shetlander, resident in Edinburgh, died at the age of 26. Tu...

In 1958 Tulloch Traquhair, a bearded, booming giant of a man, comes up to far northern Scotland t...

At the outer western edge of Shetland, 20 miles off the shores of the mainland, lies a more solit...

In 1962, Jo Catterall, a young English woman, seeking freedom, visits Israel. On the boat out she...

First published in 1949, Letters on Shetland is a highly readable portrait of Britain's most nort...

In the small town of Sintiempo in Arizona, in the hot summers of 1942 and 1943, young Millie Dela...

Cuthbert Shaw and Jenny Strangfield are secretly in love. His father is a dogmatic schoolmaster, ...