Product Description: With sympathy and care, Trollope observes two controversial heroines in the first of his series of novels about the grand old Palliser family Alice Vavasor should be married to the sensible, kindly John Grey, but despite what her respectable relations might think, Alice cannot quite reconcile herself to this fate...read more

Product Description: Between walking by the river and imbibing tasteless liquor at Dr Feelgood's, a mice-infested emporium presided over by the dubious Mousookseem, David Castell is compiling his Notebooks. Though thwarted by Caro, who runs the house, buys the ink, and sullenly disapproves of his master's activities, David perseveres, believing the past to be 'an infinitely more agreeable subject for speculation than the future'...read more

Product Description: Nervously monitored from a twelfth-floor eyrie near Blackfriars, Scott Marshall's world looks as if it's falling apart. It's late 1990 in the City of London, the Iraqis are in Kuwait, the Old Lady's sick (Mrs Thatcher, not the Bank of England) and the wild times are over...read more

Product Description: A heartwarming rags-to-riches tale and satire of class distinctions Orphaned at an early age, raised by his aunt and uncle, and apprenticed for seven years to a draper, Artie Kipps is stunned to discover upon reading a newspaper advertisement that he is the grandson of a wealthy gentleman and the inheritor of his fortune...read more

When Henry Ireland dies unexpectedly from what appears to be a riding accident in August 1863, the failed landowner leaves behind little save his high-strung young widow, Isabel—who somehow ends up in the home of Ireland's friend James Dixey. A celebrated naturalist, Dixey collects strange trophies in his secluded, decaying manse and has questionable associations with rather unsavory characters—including a pair of thuggish poachers named Dewar and Dunbar. Dixey's precocious, inquisitive young servant, Esther, cannot turn a blind eye to the suspicious activities surrounding her. While in the crime-ridden streets of London, a determined captain of Scotland Yard follows the threads that may well link a daring train robbery to the disappearance of a disturbed heiress as well as to the possible murder of Henry Ireland.D. J. Taylor's Kept is a gorgeously intricate, dazzling reinvention of Victorian life and passions that is also a riveting investigation into some of the darkest, most secret chambers of the human heart.

The Bright Young People were one of the extraordinary youth cults in British history. A pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites, they romped through the 1920s gossip columns. But the quest for pleasure came at a price. This work talks about of England's 'lost generation' of the Jazz Age.

Contains many heroes, from 'Charlie Bam', the Corinthian defender, who once played with a broken leg, to the boys' school story hero Strickland of the Sixth, Old Etonian George Orwell and the 14th Norwich Cub Scout XI. The author describes a changing moral universe with profound consequences both for sport and the world beyond it.

In the aftermath of a failed landowner's accidental death, his fragile young widow struggles to survive, his naturalist friend keeps a series of unusual pets, and an enigmatic debt collector plots an audacious robbery. By the Whitbread Biography of the Year award-winning author of Orwell: The Life.

Product Description: Many have traversed the Nile, and witnessed the splendour of Ancient Egypt and its legacy. Not all, however, are able to express these experiences in words . . . For those who have visited the wonders of the Egyptian deserts, this travelogue will revive treasured memories...read more

A powerful new biography of the great twentieth-century writer chronicles George Orwell's life-changing service to the British crown in India, the literary world he inhabited, his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, his stunning literary works, and much, much more. Reprint. 17,500 first printing.

A richly textured portrait of William Makepeace Thackeray, who made literary history with the publication of Vanity Fair, details his life, from his turbulent Anglo-Indian childhood to his calamitous marriage to Isabelle Shaw, who went insane and left him to care for two small daughters, and explores his many complexities that made him one of the most prominent literary figures in Victorian London. (view table of contents)

Product Description: In this acclaimed biography of the 19th-century author of Vanity Fair, the first major study in twenty years, D.J. Taylor paints a compelling portrait of the endearing, exasperating, paradoxical figure.

Product Description: Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated reading lists and selected criticism and notes...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)