Seit zwanzig Jahren ist Ellen North glücklich verheiratet mit ihrem Mann Avery, sie haben zwei Ki...

Hop, Step and Jump

The Shuttle

Despised and Rejected

Wien, 1950er Jahre: Jeden Donnerstag treffen sich bei Theophil Kanakis Künstler, Schauspielerinne...

Contains five stories which were read on BBC Radio 4.

A 1919 novel about the harrowing effect of the First World War on William, a socialist clerk, and...

The Blank Wall

Written by the grand-daughter of Charles Dickens, this 1940 novel is the touching and extremely f...

An illusionary reverie cossets sentiment and indulges some decorative detail of the period when i...

Vain Shadow

First published in 1949, this is an emotionally charged novel about a young Englishman whose Fren...

The Godwits Fly

Midsummer Night in the Workhouse

A 1924 novel by one of America's leading writers about a couple who role-swap.

'The Expendable Man Afterword by Dominic Power' is a crime novel.

They Knew Mr. Knight

Princes in the Land

The Persephone Book of Short Stories

Manja

Minnie's Room

Harriet

Mosley, a highly regarded British novelist, examines the brief life of a sometime relative-by-mar...

Diary of a Provincial Lady

The New House

Describes the events leading up to the 1964 Rivonia Trial when Hilda Bernstein's husband was acqu...

Features a story about the need to withstand the tyranny of sex success.

Madame Solario

Consider the Years

Guard Your Daughters

Dorothy Whipple's key theme in her stories is 'Live and Let Live'. And what she describes through...

The Happy Tree

Emmeline

A London Child of the 1870s

Milton Place

Someone at a Distance

The Children Who Lived in a Barn

With sixteen chapter's covering such topics as housing, thrift, food and mothers' days, this titl...

Good Food on the Aga

The Squire

Noel Streatfeild is best known as a writer for children, but had not thought of writing for them ...

Lady Rose and Mrs Memmary

A collection of short essays about food, which were first published in 'The Times' in the early 2...

Because of the Lockwoods

The Winds of Heaven

Maman, What are We Called Now?

The Making of a Marchioness

An accurate echo of the wails of downhearted suburban frails is this rowdy little collection of l...