Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated
The Doll's House is the new twisting and terrifying thriller in the Detective Inspector Helen Grace series from M.J. Arlidge. Arlidge is the author of Eeny Meeny and Pop Goes the Weasel, and has been dubbed 'the new Jo Nesbo'. A young woman wakes up in a cold, dark cellar, with no idea how she
One hot summer night in the house of the Mississippi Delta`s richest cotton planter, a family imprisoned by the past is torn apart by the revelations of feelings of lust, greed and envy.
This is a book that will be welcomed by social scientist and economist as well as by historians and demographers. It's range is vast - the history of the world's population from early man to the twenty-first century AD (by projection). But it is so silfully and clearly organized that reading it is
DID YOU SEE ANYTHING ON THE NIGHT THE ESMOND FAMILY WERE MURDERED? From the author of CLOSE TO HOME and IN THE DARK comes the third pulse-pounding DI Fawley crime thriller. It's one of the most disturbing cases DI Fawley has ever worked. The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been
With warmth and exceptional candour, Dirk Bogarde, in this last volume of his autobiography, gathers together a gallery of family and friends in war-ravaged Europe, in India and Java, in the grey London of the fifties, the golden light of Italy and the splendour of Provence, and ending, eventually,
Three stories... In a far country, a man must open one of two doors. One door will bring him love. The other door will kill him. In a French hotel a woman goes into her room. But it is not her room. And someone is with her. In London a man stays the night in a waxworks. The killers, the people with
What was the tragedy that turned O'Neill's hotel from a plush establishment into a dingy house of disrepute? Ivy Eckdorf is determined to find out. A professional photographer, she has come to Dublin convinced that a tragic and beautiful tale lies behind the facade of this crumbling hotel.
How the Other Half Lives was a pioneering work of photojournalism by Jacob Riis, documenting the squalid living conditions in New York City slums in the 1880s. It served as a basis for future muckraking journalism by exposing the slums to New York City's upper and middle class. How The Other Half
New York Times bestseller Penelope Douglas introduces Quinn, younger sister to Jared, Madoc, and Jaxon, in the latest novella in the series that began with Jared and Tate in Bully.... Quinn Caruthers has several problems. Her father, Jason, and her three older brothers, Jared, Madoc, and Jaxon.
