Kathleen Jones: 26 books

It's 1935.  Tamar Fell has no family - or so she's been told - and she relies on the friends she makes as she's dragged from lodging house to lodging house by her mother - the reckless, beautiful Sadie.  Then Tamar meets Anna Weissmann, exiled from her own family by European politics, and they forge...

The compelling, intimate,  and often controversial, story of Katherine Mansfield - one of the world's greatest short story writers - the only writer Virginia Woolf confessed to being afraid of.   Kathleen Jones has been the beneficiary of a mass of previously unavailable material relating...

HE COURTED HER WITH PUNCH LINES. Middle-aged stand-up comedian Josh Steinberg, formerly the star of his own popular TV series, finds himself struggling to keep his career alive, playing seedier and seedier clubs. Plump, balding, and plain-looking, he has never had much luck with women. That is, until...

Three short stories from award-winning author Kathleen Jones, whose biographies have been published by Penguin, Constable, Time Warner, Virago and Bloomsbury. Her fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and been broadcast on radio networks in Britain, Holland, Spain and Germany. She also writes poetry, published by Templar Poetry UK. Kathleen divides her time between England and Italy.

A bundle of the first four BWB Texts by Paul Callaghan, Maurice Gee, Kathleen Jones and Rebecca Macfie.A moving selection of Sir Paul Callaghan’s writing, offering eloquent narratives that will endure in this country’s literature. Published on the first anniversary of Sir Paul’s death, with a foreword...

Kathleen Jones travelled to the islands of Haida Gwaii off the northernmost coastline of British Columbia, to visit a nation who have lived in harmony with their environment for more than ten thousand years.  They have a saying, 'Everything is Connected', and their philosophy, Yah' Guudang, is about...

Catherine Cookson was an illegitimate child brought up in one of the poorest places in the western world.  She left school at 13 to become a domestic servant and was later employed in a workhouse laundry.  Yet she became one of the best selling novelists of all time and one of the richest women...

Christina was the youngest of the four Rossetti children, born in England to Italian parents. Although she and her brother, the artist Dante Gabriel, were known as the 'two storms', Christina's passionate nature was curbed in a way that her brother's was not, as she submitted to the social and religious...

Forbidden to walk because of his illness, Charles Fergusson is growing up a spoiled sickly child. He dreams of becoming a plant hunter, and of finding the fabled Blue Poppy which grew in his grandmother’s garden in Sikkim, but it seems that he will be trapped forever in the dark house in the Cumbrian...

When Miss Katherine Mansfield, the brilliant novelist, passed away the other day in almost the spring of her promise, it was in a curious little oasis in the historic Forest of Fontainebleau… From 'The Graphic', 10 March 1923 This moving, beautifully written chapter from Kathleen Joness biography...

Twelve characters, twelve stories, a year in the life of a small Italian town.  What will happen to Pia, the young Greek barista, who is in love with the son of the town’s leading fascist?  And how is her fate connected to the sisters who run the shoe shop – Olimpia and Marina? They’ve shared...

A The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys...

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Many people claim that they do not like gourmet foods; but this may be the case only because they have not tasted enough varieties. The types of gourmet foods are endless. Not only are there meats, drinks, cheeses, fruits, and deserts, but there are hundreds of kinds of all of these. Gourmet foods...