Hugh Walpole: 71 books

“It isn’t life that matters, but the courage you bring to it!” begins this early (1913) novel, one of Walpole’s first great successes, which has been described as a fairytale romance. It tells the semiautobiographical story of a naïve young author in the making.

A beautifully atmospheric novel, set in the dense forests of central Europe.

Felix Brun, perched like a little bird, on the steps of the Rede Art Gallery, gazed up and down Bond Street, with his sharp eyes for someone to whom he might show Yale Ross's portrait of the Duchess of Wrexe. The afternoon was warm, the date May of the year 1898, and the occasion was the Young Portrait...

This unique edition of Fortitude from Dead Dodo Vintage includes the full original text as well as exclusive features not available in other editions.

Why in folly’s name had he ever married her? They had been young enough, he eighteen, she seventeen. They had been idiots enough, he vain beyond all vanity, she adoring beyond all conceivable adoration; she had been pretty, innocent and wealthy.

Set in 18th century England. Francis Herries is an eccentric, larger-than-life man tortured by a strong romantic streak. He uproots his entire family from Doncaster, and takes them to live in a crumbling manor-house in the wilds of Borrowdale. A violent and impetuous man, a faithless husband and a...

Jeremy is the story of one year, the eighth, in the life of a happy, normal but imaginative little boy, growing up with his two sisters and his dog, Hamlet, in the Cornish cathedral town of Polchester-by-the-sea, thirty years ago. A delightfully humorous chronicle; told with affection and understanding which mark it as autobiography.