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

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

Someone at a Distance

Bricks and Mortar

Watson wrote and published six novels in the late 1930s, and was something of a celebrity in her ...

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

Features letters written (but never posted) by a 60 year-old woman, to her children living abroad...

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

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

The author was a niece of Lytton Strachey and was well-known in Bloomsbury circles; she was the s...

Harriet

How to Run Your Home without Help

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

'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

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

Diary of a Provincial Lady

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

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

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