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The Campus of Love is a sequence of love poems. The protagonist is a student who, while acting in a play put on by the university drama society, begins to notice a fellow member of the cast. The morning after the last performance, he wakes up with the overwhelming realisation that he has fallen in...

My Journey from an Asian British to British Asian covers Sujit Bhattacharjee’s life, from his early years in India to one of the first generation of post-war Indian immigrants living in the UK over the last 50 years.  Over the course of his time in the UK, Sujit has witnessed a drastic change...

The much-loved UNCLE series of children's books by JP Martin, illustrated by Quentin Blake, were fantastical, surreal, funny and heart-warming. Originally told by Martin to his children, they were finally published when he was over eighty years old - and the hilarious array of characters, including...

Tim Murgatroyd’s Poems for Mobiles aim to bring fresh, contemporary poems to a digital device near you. Lullaby ranges over themes as diverse as a new-born baby, a sinister painting by William Blake, night’s tranquillity in the heart of the city and a child’s first sports day at school. The...

It is 1341 and Joan of Kent, the fourteen-year-old cousin of the King of England, is poised on the brink of marriage with the Earl of Salisbury's son. While plans are made for the king's continuing war against France, the families gather to celebrate the wedding. But the bride is in tears. For unknown...

Nineteen year-old Max is the duchesse de Claireville's second footman, but he does not intend to endure the indignities of service for long. He has a plan—to find an aristocratic patron who will become his unwitting accomplice in an audacious fraud. It is true that in 1880s' France, despite nearly...

**The long-awaited follow-up to The Second Footman (ISBN: 9781780883656) ** **A modern take on the nineteenth-century novel, set in 1880s’ France and full of period detail and atmosphere. ** Who is Max Fabien? Is he the loyal secretary and faithful lover of the marquis de Miremont?...

On 3rd September, 1939, Britain declared war on Germany. The award-winning Coal Sacks for Curtains places readers deep in the ruins and rubble of London during those war-torn years, when German planes pounded the capital night after night. This personal documented story, inspired by the author’s...

Once his nation's most beloved Prince and famed General, Aaryan Singh Shekhawat now lives in disgrace, accused of treason and murder in a world where honour is everything. Driven by hate, Aaryan thirsts for revenge and retribution from those who wronged him. When he crosses paths with the sweet but...

Crystal is a feisty woman, aged thirty-something – an artist who specialises in nude paintings, who moves to rural Wales from Manchester after a failed relationship. Her constant companion is a foul-mouthed parrot called Perkins, whose repertoire includes references to various body parts – Perkins literally does not care about anything.

As he grappled to come to terms with the diagnosis of a physically crippling disease, his body swiftly declined until he was finally completely paralysed with no voice. But his mind remained untouched. He was trapped within his body. Imagine being delivered a death sentence. You are told you have...

England is in crisis. King Edward has no heir and promises never to produce one. There are no obvious successors available to replace him, but quite a few claimants are eager to take the crown. While power struggles break out between the various factions at court, enemies abroad plot to make England...

Originally passed in 1885, the law that had made homosexual relations a crime remained in place for 82 years. But during this time, restrictions on same-sex relationships did not go unchallenged. Between 1891 and 1908, three books on the nature of homosexuality appeared. They were written by two homosexual...

Blatchley’s Second Law of Nautical Recreation: One meets a better class of people in collisions. Julian is a stout Englishman, no doubt about that: So why, when fortune deposits him in Greece, does he get the feeling that he has come home? He also appears to be without employment. With immediate...