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When both of Eddie Dickens' parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly round the edges and smell of hot water bottles, it's agreed he should go and stay with relatives at their house Awful End.

Born in 1804, the grandson of an immigrant Italian Jew, Disraeli became leader of the Conservative Party and was twice Prime Minister (1868 and from 1874 to 1880). Famous for the 1867 Reform Act, he was also the creator of the political novel and in Sybil wrote the major "Condition of England" work of fiction. This biography presents his story.

Sir Giles, the nefarious cousin of The Chief Justice of England, Lord Arglay, has obtained by not entirely fair means the ancient gold Crown of King Solomon the Wise. The White Stone of the Tetragrammaton, embedded in the crown, was the key to his wisdom and riches and fame.

Willie Maddison fought in the First World War, and suffered fully its tragedies. Now he returns to his beloved Devon, to the wind-swept Taw estuary, with its swift alternation of sun and rain, its bird-filled saltmarshes and marram-covered sandhills.

Focusing on the traumatising effects of slavery on West Indian society, this novel depicts how the new-found freedoms and perceived social progress experienced by former peasants mask the fact that the old master-slave structure is reasserting itself among the descendants of an exploited people.

Freda Bellingham, the founder of Copdock School, ensnares the unsuspecting Richard Brand in order to save her ramshackle foundation. At twenty-four, Richard is that perilous mixture, gauche, good and uncommitted. He falls straight into the morass of Copdock School. The time is just before the Second World War.

Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914) was a towering personality in an age of political giants. In this biography, the author provides an account of his extraordinary life and focuses on such key issues of the time as electoral and social reform, Irish Home Rule, the Boer War and tariff reform.

Examining the social history of railway stations, this title includes chapters that cover: The Station in Architecture (three chapters), The Station and Society, The Station in Politics, Class, Race, and Sex, Some Station Types, The Station in the Economy (two chapters), The Station as Place of Work, and, The Station in Wartime (two chapters).

One man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh... Mann was a comic genius, in trademark whit...

Keith Vaughan's Journals merits a place among the greatest confessional writing of the twentieth century. Vaughan belonged to the Neo-Romantic group of landscape painters that included Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland. Much troubled by his homosexuality, he began a diary in 1939, 'faced at the age of twenty-seven with what then seemed the likelihood of imminent extinction before I had properly got started', and he would write until his suicide ...

Offers a collection of novels comprising "Palace of the Peacock", "The Far Journey of Oudin", "The Whole Armour" and "The Secret Ladder".

Examines the Victorian hymn from a literary, theological and cultural point of view. This book traces its contemporary impact and its influence in churches, public popularity, parody and literary references.

Querelle, a young sailor at large in the port of Brest, is an object of illicit desire to his diary-keeping superior officer Lieutenant Seblon. He is coveted, too, by corrupt policeman Mario. He gives himself freely both to brothel-keeper Madame Lysiane and to her husband. But Querelle is a thief and a murderer - not a man to be trusted.

The question taxing Detective Inspector Purbright's brain was whether anything untoward had been going on in the tiny village of Mumblesby. Certainly the circumstances surrounding the death of 'Rich Dick' Loughbury, the solicitor, seemed genuinely beyond suspicion.

Reynard Langrish befriends a young army officer who talks of a 'state of emergency'. Reynard agrees to undertake military training with him, but as he becomes more deeply involved he is drawn into a struggle with mysterious and irrational forces which are to threaten his sanity.

The sale of Lot Thirty-Four at the handsome price of GBP400, together with further curious developments, leads Inspector Purbright to the heart of a chilling but decidedly genteel murder mystery...

Paperback edition of the latest poetry collection by Armitage, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. An array of dramatic monologues, allegories, parables and tall tales.

A groundbreaking history of more than a century of music making in the British Isles, which investigates how the idea of folk has been handed down and transformed by successive generations. From the pioneer spirit of Cecil Sharp to the visionary pop of Kate Bush, Julian Cope and Talk Talk, it maps out a native British musical voice.

For lovely Julia Harton, unhappily married to a brutally successful pet food executive, a dramatic death in the fairground seems to provide a deliciously easy means of escape. But for Inspector Purbright, it is the harbinger of a bizarre and increasingly nasty case.

A work in which Stravinsky, prompted by Robert Craft, reviewed his long and remarkable life. It brings the Imperial Russia of his childhood into focus, at the same time scanning what were at the time the brave new horizons of Boulez and Stockhausen.