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Examines about thirty key personalities in the history of the British Labour movement between 1900 and 1987. This book also explores what kind of typology of leadership emerges.

Although Elizabeth Barrett Browning has been the subject of many biographies her worth as a poet tends to be given short shrift. Her dramatic life-story has obscured her more lasting importance as a forceful and imaginative writer. This book focuses on these aspects of Mrs Browning, and on the quality of her poetry.

Collects together a number of the author's programme notes about his own works, among them the "Symphonies of Wind Instruments" and "Jeu de Carte". This title includes waspish letters to the press, wide-ranging interviews, prefaces and reviews, and a section entitled 'Squibs'.

At the centre of events, is the Gooseboy, a creature with a double face, half faun, half deformed horror...The Gooseboy questions the relations between flesh and spirit, the ridiculous and the terrible.

'A writer of stunning quality, a novelist of irony and compassion who observes her American scene with a refreshingly European detachment.' Daily Telegraph'A novel of writhing ironies .

There is, for instance, Bruno, as arrogant as he is handsome, his Aunt Eileen (addicted to The Parkers), his adoring cousin Ian, Verity Orchard (in one review likened to Virginia Woolf cross-pollinated with Elfine Starkadder from Cold Comfort Farm) and her sexually ambiguous husband Charles Compson.

John Hanning Speke was one of the Victorian explorers and his famous achievement was the discovery in 1862 of the main source of the White Nile in Lake Victoria Nyanza. He joined the Indian Army, and after serving for ten years he joined Sir Richard Burton's abortive expedition to Somaliland. This biography offers a full-length study of Speke.

. This is a brilliant imaginative reconstruction, a work of virtuosity that immediately makes you want to re-read the play. In addition to this title, Faber Finds is reissuing the following of Alethea Hayter's titles: Opium and the Romantic Imagination, A Sultry Month, A Voyage in Vain and Mrs Browning.

'The conversations between Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft are unique in musical history.' Sunday TimesDialogues is the fourth volume in the legendary series of Stravinsky's conversations with Robert Craft.

The eccentricities of the Hervey family in the eighteenth century caused it to be said that when God created the world he made men, women, and Herveys. By far the most eccentric of them all was Frederick Hervey, Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry.

This absorbing family saga, first published in 1945, reveals the poignancies of an Irish Catholic upbringing, and is a testimony to Mary Lavin's considerable power as a storyteller. Theodore Coniffe, austere property owner in Castlerampart, looks forward to the birth of an heir when his third and youngest daughter, Lily, marries.

In their heyday, the English public schools inspired an astonishing effusion of novels and stories about school life, of which Tom Brown's Schooldays is perhaps still the best known, and was certainly the most influential.

A collection of ghost stories in which an academic is haunted by his dead colleague's certainty, a tutor is confronted with an eight year old's mortal secret and Aunt Selena's dancing bear appears from beyond the grave.

Charles Kingsley was born, appropriately enough, in the same year as Queen Victoria: appropriately, for he embodies so many of the positive aspects of that epoch.

Presents a self-portrait, a medical portrait of a community, and one observant man's response to a time of flux in the early 1960s.

In the spring of 1804 Coleridge sailed to the Mediterranean in the hope of restoring his health, recreating his poetic energies and solving his emotional problems. During the voyage he kept a very detailed diary. This title combines the pleasures of researched biography, and criticism and social history, with the narrative sweep of a novel.

Julia O'Faolain's subtle, seductively plotted novel weaves together Ireland and Italy, romantic love and mystery...

Edith Trembath's charming inability to cope with problems of everyday life is a constant source of embarrassment to her friends and family.

Includes eleven stories about people who, for good or bad, need each other; people in love or in need of love; and, people growing up and growing old.

The Heart of the Writer, companion volume to The Maker of the Omnibus (also reissued in Faber Finds) is a book of fascinating and revealing information about English writers.

'I am engaged to write little Lives, and little Prefaces, to a little edition of the English Poets.' So wrote Samuel Johnson to James Boswell.

'I am engaged to write little Lives, and little Prefaces, to a little edition of the English Poets.' So wrote Samuel Johnson to James Boswell.

'I am engaged to write little Lives, and little Prefaces, to a little edition of the English Poets.' So wrote Samuel Johnson to James Boswell.

Nick Rankin, in his introduction, describes Caesar in Abyssinia as Steer's 'remarkable - and partisan - account of the last great episode of armed colonial conquest in Africa, the Italo-Ethiopian war of 1935-36.' Italy had first tried to meld an Africa Orientale Italina in 1895.

A comparative study of the lives of English writers, spanning styles and centuries. It takes a selection of writers and explored their lives and characters: how far do work-methods differ; what is inspiration; to what extent do background and education play a part; and, is creativity driven by suffering.

Intends to identify the structural flaws in modern liberal society and to suggest energetic ways in which it might be reformed.

Hugh Kingsmill wrote over thirty books, and his highly praised biography of Frank Harris is one of four of his books to be reissued by Faber Finds, to mark the sixtieth anniversary of his death. 'An extremely fine piece of work ...

Zionism is one of the most misunderstood and controversial of all political doctrines. This work illuminates its origins and discusses its political theory through an examination of the ideas of Zionism's leading thinkers. It lays bare the paradoxes and the genuine achievements of a unique movement that has changed the course of Jewish history.

It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of Ultra intelligence (the information derived from decrypting the radio traffic of the German armed force). By the beginning of October, Ultra showed that Hitler was the unwitting accomplice of Allied policy, pouring his diminishing resources into Italy when they might have been put to better use.

As a child, Ellie compulsively lies her way into trouble. She idealizes a beautiful school friend, only to uncover (with morbid fascination) a strange relationship between her friend and a middle-aged chemist.