Folk Music

Sheenagh Pugh

Set in a country lying somewhere between Wales and central Asia, in a time which might be the middle ages or the near-present, Folk Music is a rounded and satisfying portrayal of a small rural community, its loves and its conflicts, and the tensions which threaten its cohesion ...

Food

Peter Finch

In Food the multi-talented and endlessly inventive Peter Finch keenly observes the dark forces that afflict us and then relentlessly skewers them with a quick wit, or twists form to give alternative versions, inflicting a random beauty on the stale or predictable ...

Frail Flesh

Rob Watson

Some do it for the money. Some do if for the fun - they’re the ones you really don’t want to meet. The all powerful state. The individual out of control. Love is at the mercy of strangers ...

Francis Brett Young

Michael Hall


Francis Brett Young (1884-1954) was one of the most prolific and successful authors of his era. His thirty novels and four collections of stories were published in more than two hundred editions and eleven languages,...

Francis Kilvert

David Lockwood


Kilvert’s diaries are famous throughout the world. They are acclaimed for quality of the diaryist’s response to Victorian society and his passionate love of the natural world. Life in his two homes, near Chippenham and on the Radnor-Hereford border (now known as ’Kilvert Country’) shines through his writing ...

FSP

Arthur Gwynn-Browne

“I am in the F.S.P. F.S.P. stands for Field Security Personnel. That is the authorized version.” So begins this remarkable account of six months’ service with the British Expeditionary Force in France, up to and including the terrible retreat to and evacuation from the beaches of Dunkirk ...

The Gallipoli Diary

Jonah Jones

The Gallipoli Diary is a collection of essays and memoirs by Jonah Jones, one of our leading sculptors. Very much a man of his times, the essays reflect Jones’s life from humble beginnings, his service...

Genesis

John Powell Ward

In Genesis John Powell Ward develops the distinctive style that made 1993’s A Certain Marvellous Thing the recipient of rapturous reviews. A highly wrought and polished technique that places emphasis on the letters of the ...

The Genre of Silence

Duncan Bush

Duncan Bush’s new work brings to life, at times painfully, the work of the Russian poet Victor Bal, who ’disappeared’ under Stalinism. This surprising and original new book recalls the period by an intermingling of history and fiction which imaginative writers have always understood but that historians have rarely admitted ...

Gerard Manley Hopkins

Norman White


The three years Gerard Manley Hopkins spent at the Jesuit college at St. Beuno’s in the vale of Clwyd were the most important of his authorial life - perhaps his whole life. He wrote for the first time in seven years - including his classic sonnets - and St Beuno’s was his literary testing ground ...