Paul Schlicke 
Conversations with Dickens [EPUB ebook] 

**Longlisted for the ALCS Gold Non-Fiction Dagger** **Longlisted for t he Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize 2022** ”Haunting … lingers in the mind long after the final page is turned” Sund …

Two months after his twenty-first birthday, a young Harvard student arrived to join his father the American Ambassador in London. Jack, as he was known to family, had no idea how his journey to Engla …

The Rowntree name is linked to some of the most iconic and well-loved brands of the 20th century, including the Kit Kat, Aero and Fruit Pastilles. On the way he transformed a small factory in York in …

The first and only full-length critical study of Dario Fo, the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Winner This book, now extensively rewritten and updated, remains the only full-length critical study to …

In the small hours of the morning of 3 June 1914, a woman and her husband were found dead in a sparsely furnished apartment in Paris. It was only when the identity of the couple was revealed in the E …

In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the longest land campaign of the Second World War had begun. 100, 000 African soldiers were taken from Britain’s colonies to fight the Ja …

Margaret Lashmar tells the true story of her mother leaving home with the lodger in the 1950”s, when she was aged just five, her life without her, and then the reunion, fifty years later.A heart-war …

”Rape, Ravage and Rant are the German watchwords in this war. Right, Revenge & Retrenchment shall be ours.” Alexander Scrimgeour, 17th September 1914. Most published war diaries have been written b …

Born into a fog-ridden south London slum in 1931, Eileen Killick quickly learned to look after herself. Her brothers were wayward, her mum had TB and her dad was working all hours on the railways. By …