Queens and the Hive

No hive can tolerate two Queens. In the fatal clash between the Protestant Queen of England and t...

Gentle Art of Tramping

Guy Renton

First published in 1952, this is a tale of Austria. February 1925. A date that would always remai...

Colonel Julian and Other Stories

Colonel Julian and Other Stories was Bates's first collection following World War II, containing ...

Xanthippic Dialogues

In Plato's dialogues, an idealised Socrates expounds the ideas for which Plato will, until the en...

Naked in the Promised Land

Red Sky at Night, Lovers’ Delight

When spirited Kate Warrender embarks on a dangerous impersonation she puts her family and home in...

Quick and the Dead

This is a short, meditative novel written in the first person, recollecting events in the narrato...

Pemberley

Elizabeth wins Darcy, and Jane wins Bingley - but do they 'live happily ever after'? Emma Tennant...

Love in Our Time

Gerald, a young man on the up-and-up with a good job and stylish friends, is doing rather well, e...

Protest and Power

Watch the Wall, My Darling

Only a deathbed promise to her dying father could force Christina Tretton to travel to Tretteign ...