Wolf: 1917 books

Georgiana Newbury’s father was a blackmailer, though she only learned this on his death. In an effort to provide for her handicapped sister, she attempts one extortion of her own—for the elderly Earl of Winterdale to present her to society to find a husband. But the earl is dead and the title has...

The Literary Agenda is a series of short polemical monographs about the importance of literature and of reading in the wider world and about the state of literary education inside schools and universities. The category of 'the literary' has always been contentious. What is clear, however, is how increasingly...

Includes the plays The Samson Riddle and Essay; The Bespoke Overcoat; The Hebrew Lesson; It Should Happen to a Dog; and The Mighty Hunter. When The Bespoke Overcoat was first performed in 1953, Wolf Mankowitz was immediately hailed as one of Britain's most exciting young playwrights. From...

Some would call them journal entries, but these Swedish musings are less so than stray thoughts now and then jotted down in the black notebooks I always carried with me at the time (and which I thought of as daybooks, hence the title). I was eighteen years old in the summer of 1967 when I began...

Whether you’re a dedicated knitter who bestows lovingly crafted gifts upon family and friends at every possible occasion, a sometimes knitter with a bag of fully conceived but half-completed projects, or a newcomer who has recently taken up the needles with great gusto, you know the rewards that...

In Daughter of Jerusalem, readers will quickly identify with Mary Magdalene - a woman of deep faith who used her wealth and influence to serve Jesus. This fictionalized story of Mary Magdalene is, in the truest sense of the word, an inspirational novel for modern people who are looking to renew in...

Rourke Monroe has a problem: he’s in love with his best friend’s fiancée, and to make things worse, he’s also his best friend’s best man. He knows what a terrible idea this wedding is, but no one is willing to listen… Eve just wants everyone to be happy, but one person seems determined...

When Walter misses the bus, he decides to walk to school. Along the way he encounters Mortimer, old Ben and his friend Erle, and Codger. The adventures he has this day as he tries to make his way to school will be one that he will not forget.

Synopsis Have you ever found yourself in a conversation where someone throws 'Family is everything' around, like it's cheap confetti? It had been many long years after, and the tightly-knit film-making family of Moorcrofts would listen in on conversations like these, and not react, correct,...

Then the old cobra rearranged himself on the stage, settling in for the telling. The three monkeys in white returned and sat down by his side. Beside us Mandar and Manini also sat down, easing into comfortable lotus. A restful silence now settled on the large hall. Then he began. “Hanuman’s...

**Sechzehn bittersüße Adventsgeschichten von Impress** Alle Jahre wieder kehrt das Christkind auch bei den Wesen der Anderswelten ein. Während die Elfen Morgan und Alahrian auf einen Engel treffen, der vom Himmel fällt, macht sich die Hexe Belle im verbotenen Wald auf die Suche nach dem perfekten...

Both short and quite lengthy poems on love, romance, loss, betrayal, war, politics, death and the few things in between that make up our realities, lives, dreams and nightmares...

Both short and quite lengthy poems on love, romance, loss, betrayal, war, politics, death and the few things in between that make up our realities, lives, dreams and nightmares...

Hard-boiled private eye Sam Crown once said, “The line between a firing squad and a Medal of Honor is as thin as a razor’s edge.” He is once again faced with such a dilemma: should he step over that thin line if it offers him a chance to save an innocent girl’s life? That’s just one problem...