Letter, Diaries

Silver Pages on the Lawn’ is the true story of student lovers and their star-crossed romance that endures parental disapproval as well as the want of time, money, and privacy. To bridge long …

First published in Paris in 1834, Journey to the United States of America / Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte America, by Lorenzo de Zavala, is an elegantly written travel narrative that maps de …

Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the recently discovered nineteenth-century novelist, broke many of the boundaries that circumscribed the life of both women and Hispanics in the southwestern territories …

Before his untimely death at the age of 47, Dinesh Allirajah was one of the most versatile and accomplished writers working in the North of England. Whether as a performance poet, literary critic, …

In September 1943, just at the moment when their Italian guards were deserting their posts and British Prisoners of War were about to be liberated by the advancing Allied troops, they were ordered by …

On 7 July 2014, in an apparent response to the murder of three teenagers, Israel launched a major offensive against the Gaza Strip, lasting 51 days, killing 2145 Palestinians (578 of them children), …

Darryl gives up his job as an undertaker to buy and run a seaside hotel, with unexpected and often hilarious …

In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of …

The first part of this book provides an insight into a privileged life in Kresy (Eastern Borderlands of pre-war Poland) and the fate of its deported inhabitants, including Irena (the author’s mother) …

This tell-all book by a spa esthetician reveals all the dirty details you’ve always wondered about personal waxing. You’ll meet the cougar on the prowl, the sexy mystery collegiate and the guy with …