Fiction

A compilation of essays, sketches and verse on all aspects of fishing by over 80 contributers. These include Isaak Walton, Arthur Ransome, Thoreau and many others.

Amusing sporting tales of the (mis)adventures of Mr. Sponge and a large cast of characters.

Written by two now neglected contemporaries of Dickens, this tale is full of authentic details of Portsmouth in the 1840's and 50's.

An imaginary tale of what would happen if Christ and His Disciples returned to live on earth in the author's own generation.

Charming poems for children, based on the traditional cherry stone counting rhyme.

Dylan Thomas' iconic "play for voices," completed within a month of his early death.

Part travelogue, part imagination, this unusual book takes the form of letters written during the summer of 1936.

A shape shifting ancient Egyptian entity seeks revenge on a British member of parliament.

Uses Pounds translation from the Latin as an example of superlative creative translation, as opposed to the purely literal.

This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.

Traces the development of critical moral psychology in the central novels of the Brontes and George Eliot.

Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, the author places the Gothic at the centre of the debate about Romanticism.

Essays cover topics including strategies of madness and the plague in literature and myth.

A history of the literary circle that formed around the publisher John Murray, including Gladstone, Salisbury, Livingstone, Borrow and Isabella Bird.

A lovely edition of the famous anthology. Containing poetry, music, maps cocktails and all manner of other pleasantries.

Not Maigret, but a study in jealousy by the French master of crime.

"... the Sergeant, from the moment he strolls unhurriedly on to the scene of the crime, his dog Clive at his heels, has his own ideas as usual..."

"Sergeant Cluff, unorthodox, compassionate and essentially human, fighting a battle against himself as well as against crime, is torn from his cottage by call of duty."