Frances Wilson: 9 books

National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist New York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian Best Books of 2016 Thomas De Quincey was an obsessive. He was obsessed with Wordsworth...

We have all surrendered ourselves to the world that writing creates. Eudora Welty once observed that her mother read the works of Charles Dickens in the same spirit with which she would have eloped with him. Some of us remember our first novel with more pleasurable vividness than our first kiss. Many...

Described by the writer and opium addict Thomas De Quincey as "the very wildest . . . person I have ever known," DorothyWordsworth was neither the self-effacing spinster nor the sacrificial saint of common telling. A brilliant stylist in her own right, Dorothy was at the center of the Romantic...

A hot and kinky story of a woman who completely changes the dynamics of the relationship. She puts herself in charge approaching the most crucial moment in their relationship: their wedding! He is overwhelmed by her feminine power and has to endure intense tease and denial for her pleasure... but that is by far not the only thing she demands of him!

This early work by Frances Wilson Huard was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'With Those Who Wait' is a work that paints a picture of what life was like for many in rural France during the First World War. This book is part of the World...

My Home in the Field of Honour is a heartfelt, fun and gripping story of war and human nature. It is known for it’s great story and it’s example of such a strong female character. It reads as though it could be fiction, although of course, it is not. This is a first hand account of World War One, and Madame Huard was certainly not to be messed with.

The groundbreaking first-person account of successful recovery from dissociative identity disorder, now featuring a new preface by the author When Joan Frances Casey, a married twenty-six-year-old graduate student, “awoke” on the ledge of a building ready to jump, it wasn’t the first...

This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...

Everyone has struggles, but wishes they did not. This of course is not reality, but many still try to avoid them. They soon discover, however, that the very issues they try to avoid only increase, creating obstacles. Some try to get around the obstacles, only to encounter new ones. There is no way...