Product Description: In the spring of 2006 the artist Stephan Kaluza and his team photographed both banks of the Thames from its source in the in the Cotswold Hills to its mouth in the North Sea. They went partly on foot and partly by boat and took pictures of each bank every few seconds, ending up with about 30,000 images...read more

Product Description: A historical novel focusing on the life of one man beginning at the start of World War II.

At sea from the age of 12, John Paul Jones commanded slave and merchant ships until, following a murder charge, he fled to America, where he is regarded as the founder of the US Navy. Controversies about this and about his difficult, pugnacious nature are the main themes of this story of adventure.

Product Description: Hermes, the messenger of Zeus, likes to return to Earth now and again. He chooses to do so in Paris at the time of Napoleon III, a time of great frivolity and instability. Here he decides to play the most explosive practical joke in the world's history...read more

Product Description: This is a description of England by the novelist Peter Vansittart, beginning with the mythical land of Albion, of Jack the Giant Killer, Arthur and Merlin. This idealized view of England informs his account of the more conventional heroes and villains, oppressions and advances in this island...read more

Product Description: These memoirs by novelist and historian Pete r Vansittart chart his literary course from early childhood through schooldays to the present, as author of over forty w orks of fiction and non-fiction. '

The graf of a fifteenth-century German principality faces the challenges of social upheaval when the Children's Revolt brings out the worst elements of the society in his care

Product Description: A sophisticated, thought-provoking historical novel, set in ancient Greece and Sicily. Vansittart is adept at emphasizing the ideas and personal motives behind historical events. The protagonist is fourth century B.C. soldier and political leader Timoleum of Syracuse, who liberated that city from the control of - Carthage - a fine meditation on Western civilization at an early crossroads...read more

There is no city more talked about, or written about, than London. Each district, each landmark has literary associations hardly separable from the stones themselves. Some of them are well known, even hackneyed. Here you can see suburbia through the eyes of P.G. Wodehouse, or blitzed ruins through those of Rose Macaulay, or Hampstead society through Ezra Pound's. Max Beerbohm can introduce you to the goat that used to live in Piccadilly, and Victor Hugo to Charles II's watchman, whose job was to crow like a cock. You can look on as Shaw dances in Fitzroy Square with a chorus line of policemen, and G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc ride donkeys into the Ritz. Here you can see Dr Johnson perform a citizen's arrest, or Marx touch Engels for money. You can watch E.M. Forster help E. Nesbit set fire to models of suburban villas, and learn about Queen Victoria's liking for nudes.;This book is a celebration of London in all its moods; of royal London, commercial London, criminal London, the crowds, the river, even the fog - all of them given immediacy and life by writers as diverse as Samuel Pepys and Martin Amis, Thackeray and V.S. Pritchett.

Product Description: The story of one boy’s struggle to reunite his family, on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.A young boy and his mother and sister were separated from their father when the Berlin Wall was built between East and West Germany...read more

Product Description: In this glittering, kaleidoscopic new novel Peter Vansittart recreated and projects in his own inimitable style the familiar story from Wagner’s opera in historical perspective.

Product Description: The story of a successful couple with three children and a large country house whose lives are overtaken, and nearly ruined, by a serious political scandal.

Portrays the experiences of the English poet as a medical orderly for the Red Cross in France during World War I

A collection of quotations traces the history of Europe and portrays the changes in European society

Product Description: Bringing together Sigmund Freud, Osip Mandelstam, Lloyd George, Bertrand Russell, Isaac Rosenberg, Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Britain -- voices famous and unknown -- Peter Vansittart takes us through the course of the Great War, juxtaposing letters from the trenches with music-hall songs, and the words of poets and politicians...read more

Product Description: Set in the brilliant, dying world of late-medieval chivalry. I have always been interested in the Middle Ages, but never remember, in a modern novel, feeling their essence to have been so brilliantly captured."" - Mary Renault. ""The entire novel is brilliant...read more

Product Description: Focuses on one of the most momentous years in the history of Britain. In A.D. 367 the order and stability of the Roman Empire was threatened by a barbarian invasion. For the narrator, Drusus, the events of 367 and their aftermath determined not only the future of his country, but also of his life...read more

Product Description: Traces the growth and decline of an idea `Robin Hood', symbol of nature, vs. man-made order, forest vs. town, magic and superstition vs. reason and established government. Extraordinarily written with power and craft, sensitivity and dry wit...read more

Product Description: Ostensibly a variation on the theme of the comic boarding house and the provincial simpleton tossed mercilessly by the vagaries of city life. But its ribald gaiety, lyrical insights and astringent characterization make it a singular mix of wistful comedy and sardonic social comment...read more

Product Description: Peter Vansittart’s Pastimes of A Red Summer describes the era of the French Revolution, a subtle fusion of period atmosphere and historic insight by one of Britain’s greatest historical novelists.

Product Description: A novel divided into several parts, each of which reflects not only seasonal change, but the development of one human being through a period of 500 years, from childhood to old age, paralleled with different centuries in history. Architectural grandeur...read more