Vincent Hughes: 3 books

James Hughes was a driver on the Glyn Valley Tramway, which ran the length of the Glynceiriog Valley on the border of North Wales, transporting mined materials and passengers to the main line station at Chirk. The Glyn Valley Tramway is now little more than a memory but it still casts its spell over...

When Tony Williams finds himself made redundant from the office of Customs and Excise in Southampton, his world falls apart... One morning, his self-esteem at a very low ebb, he receives a letter from Roger, an old friend of his boyhood days, inviting him to join him in his yacht with the idea that...

Once merely a footnote in Restoration and eighteenth-century studies and rarely taught, Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave (1688), by Aphra Behn, is now essential reading for scholars and a classroom favorite. It appears in general surveys and in courses on early modern British writers, postcolonial literature,...