Ingrid’s Husband

Paul Henry

Intermittent Journals

Dannie Abse


"More, please Dannie" said The Sunday Times on the publication of ’Journals from the Ant-Heap’ in 1986. ’Intermittent Journals’ answers that call, bringing back into print that book and adding to it ’Notes Mainly from the Clinic’ (1981), unpublished new jottings 1987-1992, and a specially commissioned journal for 1993, Abse’s seventieth birthday year …

Intimate Portraits: Contemporary Responses to the Theme of Portraiture

Alison Lloyd

The word ’portrait’ is, to many people, evocative of those posed formal studies of the nobility adorning the walls of stately homes across Europe and beyond. Yet portraiture in its broadest sense surely encompasses all attempts at depicting the human form, character and condition...

Into Painting: Brendan Stuart Burns

David Alston

A small, isolated beach in Pembrokeshire is the almost exclusive subject of the paintings of Brendan Burns. His aim is to record, explore and interpret the constant change of shoreline, tide, horizon, climate and rock pools through a semi-abstract style which references artists from Monet to Pollock …

Invisible Times

Mike Jenkins

Invisible Times sees Mike Jenkins developing further the picture of working-class society in south Wales which he presented so forcefully in his previous book, Empire of Smoke. His use of language and dialect moves still...

Jan Morris: Around the World in 80 Years

ed. Paul Clements

PAPERBACK OF THE WEEK - The Observer.

Jan Morris is one of the world’s leading writers. In this tribute to her on her eightieth birthday, a number of well-known people from the world of travel writing, journalism, broadcasting and publishing celebrate the writer, as well as the person…

John Cowper Powys

Herbert Williams


John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) has been called the forgotten man of English literature, seemingly a remarkable assessment for such a prolific writer. Novels such as Weymouth Sands, Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance and Maiden Castle stand as landmarks in twentieth century writing, yet debate over his genius, or lack of it, has raged controversially since before his death ...

Kerry’s Children

Ellen Davis

Ellen Davis was born in 1929 in the small German village of Hoof. Her Jewish family had lived there since 1760 but its peaceful existence was shattered when Hitler came to power and German Jews were persecuted ...

A Kind of Memory

Eleanor Cooke

A Kind of Memory is Eleanor Cooke’s first collection of poems. The moving family poems it contains extend from the domestic into an exploration of the nature of poetry itself, and the making of fictions. A perceptive questioning of the process of creativity underlies the poet’s delicacy of language ...