Hugh Whittington has gone missing - reported dead while filming near Mount Everest. Determined to find him, his brother Charles embarks on a perilous and illegal journey from India into the forbidden land of Tibet, all the way to the monastery of Yamdring. There awaits a woman with a deadly and ghostly secret, an emerald treasure to guard.
Described during his lifetime by Thom Gunn as 'one of the most accomplished poets alive, J V Cunningham was perhaps best known for his epigrams. Documenting his early style as an experimental modernist poet during the Depression and his ability as a translator, this work shows his later emergence as a master of the short poems that made his name.
Born in Gloucester in 1890 Ivor Gurney began writing songs and poems in his teens, taking his inspiration from the Severn Valley countryside where he grew up. Sent to the Western Front during the First World War Gurney experienced desolation and horror that made a profound impression on him.
Presents a 'Philosophy of the Demented', expressing fundamental truths about madness and sanity. This novel offers a story that takes place in Glint Hall, a lunatic asylum. It contains the two main characters John Hush and Tenna Sheer who fall in love.
Tells the story of how the Marvell Press, a small publishing company, became a chapter in literary history when, in 1955, the then novice publishers, of which Jean Hartley was one, were entrusted with the manuscript of Philip Larkin's "The Less Deceived".
Cats! Some are sane, some are mad and some are good and some are bad. Meet magical Mr Mistoffelees, sleepy Old Deuteronomy and curious Rum Tum Tugger. Throughout the 1930s T.S. Eliot composed the now famous poems about Macavity, Old Deuteronomy, Mr Mistoffelees and many other cats, under the name of 'Old Possum'. In 1981 Eliot's poems were set to music by Andrew Lloyd Webber as "CATS" which went on to become the longest-running Broadway musica...
June 1846 was a month of fierce heat and political crisis in London. This sultry month was also a time of personal crisis for Carlyle and his wife, for Browning and Elizabeth Barrett and notably for the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon. This title portrays a cross-section of the close-textured life of literary London in the 1840s.
The Lacuna is the heartbreaking story of a man torn beween the warm heart of Mexico and the cold embrace of 1950s McCarthyite America. Born in the U.S. and reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salomé. Making himself useful in the household of the famed Mexican artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art an...
For a short time before WWI, Compton Mackenzie lived on Capri, a place providing a haven for those with the sort of sexual appetites that were banned elsewhere. Homosexuals, both male and female, retreated to Capri and many were to find themselves appearing in fictional guise in the author's novels.
A Christmas edition of 23 illustrated gothic tales from cult film maker Tim Burton. Burton's films include "Batman", "Edward Scissorhands", "Mars Attacks!" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas". A great stocking-filler, previous editions have sold over half a million copies.
Offers author's memoirs from the condemned cell , having murdered six people who stood between him and an earldom he hoped to inherit. This book explores and parodies the anti-Semitic attitudes of Edwardian England.
