All The Moves (but none of the licks)
Clive Selwood is the man who invented ‘chart hyping’ in the first place, the man who started the first ‘hippie’ record label and who pioneered the concept of radio ‘session’ recordings with one of the...
View ArticleAlfred Douglas: A Poet’s Life and His Finest Work
‘His [Wintermans's] knowledge of Lord Alfred Douglas is second to none.’ – Merlin Holland, grandson of Oscar Wilde Caspar Wintermans's eagerly awaited and highly controversial biography of Lord Alfred...
View ArticleAlberta and Jacob
Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan ‘It would be very strange were this book not to assure Cora Sandel’s reputation outside Norway. For she is one of the genuine few’, said a Norwegian...
View ArticleAlberta and Freedom
Translated from the Norwegian by Elizabeth Rokkan Cora Sandel was one of the most important Scandinavian writers of the 20th century and Alberta and Freedom is the second volume in her richly acclaimed...
View ArticleAlberta Alone
This final volume of the famous semi-autobiograpical Alberta trilogy finds Alberta, now with a young child, in Paris immediately following the First World War. While her husband flirts with a painter,...
View ArticleAgatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days – Revised and Expanded Edition
In December 1926 Agatha Christie became front-page news when she vanished in bizarre circumstances from her home in Berkshire, England. The crime writer was found eleven days later in a hotel in...
View ArticleA Stranger on Earth: The Life and Work of Anna Kavan
Jeremy Reed’s biography of the novelist Anna Kavan draws on newly discovered original material to map out the enigmatic life, times and visionary work of a writer who renamed herself after a character...
View ArticleA Scarcity of Love
Rejection, betrayal and a girl’s discovery of evil are the themes of this strange, haunting novel by the author of Ice. As in Ice, Kavan discards such aids to realism as geography and mundane physical...
View ArticleA Cat Compendium – The Worlds of Louis Wain
Louis Wain drew cats: cats playing poker, boxing, playing cricket — doing almost any human activity, in fact. His pictures are widely available today as decorative motifs and popular prints, but in his...
View ArticleA Book of Nonsense – The Centenary Edition
‘I can be quite obscure and practically marzipan.’ From the macabre to the brilliantly off-beat, Mervyn Peake’s nonsense verse can, like marzipan, be enjoyed by young and old alike. This collection of...
View ArticleAbortion Law Reformed
First published in 1971, this book is the first fully documented account of the thirty-year campaign to replace Britain's severe and archaic abortion law. Starting with the work of the Abortion Law...
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