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Presents an insight into the life of the poet and artist David Jones.

Part-autobiography, part-fiction, this is an account of the author's impoverished travels across 1930s Europe, through Spain and Antwerp with bits of occasional border-hopping. Appropriating the language of the Church, it creates a homily to a trinity of the author's own making - homosexuality, theft and betrayal.

The author spent the South African winter of 1957 touring the country for the Guardian. This book presents an evocation of the atmosphere of apartheid, and an impression of life in South Africa at a time of great tension.

An autobiography of Lady Diana Cooper covering the years from her earliest childhood (as Lady Diana Manners, youngest daughter of the eighth Duke of Rutland) to retirement at Chantilly and the death of her husband Duff Cooper, first Viscount Norwich, politician, writer and, at the end of the Second World War, British Ambassador in Paris.

A collection of prose that explores the author's connection to Wales through its culture, symbolism and through the notion of heroic defeat. It focuses on the question of visual art, not only in Wales, but also in England and in its relationship to war.

Richard Jefferies (1848-87) was more than a nature writer: he was a guiding spirit of the English landscape who affected a profound influence upon the author's own writings. First published in 1909, this title is a subtle account of the 19th century writer's life and an illuminating study of his body of work.

Describes the growth of the railway system from the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway to the outbreak of the First World War. This book discusses the technology of railways, their track and civil engineering, the machines and vehicles used and the safety precautions developed for controlling an increasingly complex system.

A study of Jean Sibelius' life and music. It covers the period from 1904 and the beginning of the Third Symphony through to the outbreak of the First World War. During this period Sibelius began keeping a diary which, helped the author give us a day-by-day, account of the years that saw the gestation and completion of the "Fourth Symphony".

Between 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed at least one third of Europe's population. This title traces the course of the virulent epidemic through Europe and its dramatic effect on the lives of those whom it afflicted.

When Jan Morris first visited the United States, she was overwhelmed (and irritated) by the national obsession with Abraham Lincoln. So she resolved to make up her own mind, visiting the landmarks of his life to do so. This book, blending fact, narrative and imagination, is the result.

Examines the paradox underlying the transformation of England from an economy based on agriculture to one based on industry. This title chronicles the many manifestations of the pastoral impulse.

Determined to find the ex-lodger who stole his grandmother's savings, Fred McAlpine and his friends Sid, Rosie, Algy and Clio launch on a series of sleuthing activities to trace the thief. Unfortunately their detective work leads them nowhere fast and very soon they decide the best way to track a thief might just be by acting like one themselves.

Mr Baldridge, a one-time novelist married to a mad millionairess. He becomes a respected figure. Then an early novel of his - "Dixie" - is recognized as a possibility for a film ...and Mr Baldridge's philosophical calm is threatened by the vicissitudes and absurdities of the film industry.

It is the last watch of the lightship that stands at anchor in the Baltic Sea, it is nine years since the end of World War II and the mines she warned the shipping of have been removed. But on her last watch, her peace is interrupted: her captain, Freytag, takes in three men whose boat has broken down, and with them, their illegal cargo of guns.

1916, the year of the Somme. As war destroys the countryside Phillip Maddison loves, turning it into an inferno of mud and terror, the damaged figure of the Mother of God with her Babe on a ruined church inspires the legend that war will end only when she, the Golden Virgin, topples into the ruins below.

Mr Bensington and Professor Redwood were amongst that new breed of men - or 'scientists' as they had become known. They discover Herakleophorbia IV, a chemical foodstuff that accelerates growth, and, after a series of experiments, the countryside is overrun with giant chickens, rats, wasps and worms. Havoc ensues.

Caryl is a musician and to save money to put on a concert, he works in the evening as a cinema pianist on the Lido in Venice. Within the space of one summer week, two fateful meeting disrupt his calm and ordered life: that with beautiful Fenella and, much less welcome, with his handsome, amoral half-brother Sebastian.

Spanning the years from the late Victorian period to the Second World War, this title follows Phillip Maddison into the Great War, surviving in the face of terror, from the famous Christmas Truce of 1914 to the gas attacks of the Battle of Loos the following year.

Discusses Left Bank cafe society that dominated postwar Paris. This book writes about James Baldwin, Nabokov, Boris Vian, Maurice Girodias and reveals a multitude of strange tales like the resurrection of Samuel Beckett by a small Left Bank magazine and the truth about the scandalous best-seller "The Story of O".

Now a clerk in the Moon Fire Office, Phillip Maddison decides to join the territorials - attracted by the money, the camp near the sea, and the prospect of a new suit of clothes. As a glorious summer slips away war seems unreal, but the old world is in peril, and before long the British Expeditionary Force is setting sail for France.