Cartas, Diários

The year is 1953 and the North of England, like everywhere else, is full of women ‘keeping house’ for their husbands. Washing must be scrubbed by hand over the sink, socks must be darned by hand and …

During their university holidays in the late 1880s, S.K. Baker and three of his University College friends clad in stripy blazers and boaters spent time sailing and camping on the River Wye. Baker, a …

An honest and poignant look into the deeply intimate yet platonic relationship between a gay English teacher and his young female protgeeach seeking connection and acceptanceas reflected by the decad …

‘A fearless new Australian voice that accepts no geographical limits: these are stories of leaping power and the most breath-taking grace and intimacy.’ Helen Garner’Wonderful stories that snarl and …

With negotiations involving the EGE in a state of permanent deadlock, “2” decides to abandon Earth to its fate, leaving a Companion of Himself behind, perhaps in a vague attempt to stop Rex Mundi fro …

I am no good at letters. John Mc Gahern, 1963John Mc Gahern is consistently hailed as one of the finest Irish writers since James Joyce and Samuel Beckett.This volume collects some of the witty, prof …

ONE OF THE GUARDIAN’S BEST NATURE BOOKS OF 2020SHORTLISTED FOR THE RICHARD JEFFERIES SOCIETY & WHITE HORSE BOOKSHOP LITERARY PRIZE’Lovely: full of fascinating detail and anecdote, but the undertow of …

Between March 1863 and July 1865, Confederate newlyweds Brigadier General Gabriel C. Wharton and Anne Radford Wharton wrote 524 letters, and all survived, unknown until now. Separated by twenty years …

The martial enthusiasm that engulfed the North when the American Civil War commenced in April 1861 vanished by the following summer. Repeated military defeats, economic worries, and staggering casual …

Robert Laird Borden, Prime Minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920, was born in the village of Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, in 1854. He practiced law in the province before entering politics. In 1896 …