Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in book...Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in books and poetry, and dreaming of beauty, truth and love. In 1940, whilst working as a secretary at MI6, Alison met Alexander Wilson. Thirty years her senior, Alexander was...more
Isaac Asimov here presents twenty five of the most important and memorable sci...Isaac Asimov here presents twenty five of the most important and memorable science fiction stories of the 'thirties, written by the raconteur masters who established genre. There is heavy foxing to all page edges and also light fading to dust jacket.more
Everyone has one.That list.The things you were supposed to do before you turn ...Everyone has one.That list.The things you were supposed to do before you turn thirty.Jobless, broke and getting a divorce, Rachel isn't exactly living up to her own expectations. And moving into grumpy single dad Patrick's box room is just the soggy...more
In this brilliant reconstruction of life in England between the two world wars...In this brilliant reconstruction of life in England between the two world wars, Ronald Blythe highlights a number of key episodes and personalities which typify the flavour of those two extraordinary decades. He begins with the burial in Westminster...more
Pan's Garden by AlgernonBlackwood A first edition of Pan's Garden: A Volume o...Pan's Garden by Algernon Blackwood A first edition of Pan's Garden: A Volume of Nature Stories by Algernon Blackwood, illustrations by W. Graham Robertson throughout the text. Algernon Blackwood was an English novelist and short story writer and one of...more
A landscape of frozen darkness. The scrape of bone on bone.'Malfi is a modern-...A landscape of frozen darkness. The scrape of bone on bone.'Malfi is a modern-day Algernon Blackwood. I'm gonna be talking about this book for years' Josh Malerman, author of Bird BoxPaul Gallo saw the report on the news: a mass murderer leading police...more
87 Stories. 80 Authors, including Somerset Maughan, W.W.Jacobs, Charles Davy, ...87 Stories. 80 Authors, including Somerset Maughan, W.W.Jacobs, Charles Davy, Guy De Maupassant, Louis Golding, Margaret Irwin, Dorothy L. Sayers, Kathleen Rivett, F. Marion Crawford, Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens, E.M. Delafield, Algernon Blackwood,...more
In March 1963, President Kennedy asked Richard E. Neustadt to investigate a tr...In March 1963, President Kennedy asked Richard E. Neustadt to investigate a troubling episode in U.S.-British relations. His confidential report-intended for a single reader, JFK himself, and classified for thirty years-is reproduced in its entirety...more
Opening with the military preparations before Paris was besieged by the invadi...Opening with the military preparations before Paris was besieged by the invading German army in September 1870, Horne's compelling account of this dramatic episode takes the reader through the fall of Paris and German victory to the last days of the...more
Online investigative journalist Scott King investigates the death of a pop meg...Online investigative journalist Scott King investigates the death of a pop megastar, the subject of multiple accusations of sexual abuse and murder before his untimely demise in a fire … another episode of the startlingly original, award-wmore
Containing the Didache in English and Greek The Q Source Document and the Book...Containing the Didache in English and Greek The Q Source Document and the Book of James What form did Christianity take in the first thirty years Before the Jewish Christians were slaughtered by Rome and before the emergence of the Pauline sect while...more
In thirty-one days readers can pray all of the wisdom of Proverbs for their li...In thirty-one days readers can pray all of the wisdom of Proverbs for their lives experiencing God''s wisdom as never before and finding encouragement peace answers and a better lifemore
Deadwood is an American Western television series that aired on the premium ca...Deadwood is an American Western television series that aired on the premium cable network HBO from March 21, 2004, to August 27, 2006, spanning three seasons and 36 episodes. The series is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before and after...more