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Making Good Again, first published in 1968, was Lionel Davidson's fourth novel. The Sunday Times called it 'a classical thriller told with much subtlety' and the Evening Standard 'part thriller, part morality - and doubly successful'.

'The genius of English architecture is the glory of England, second only to the printed word.'Thus Sacheverell Sitwell (younger brother of Edith and Osbert Sitwell) concludes British Architects and Craftsmen, an absorbing survey of taste, design, and style from 1600 to 1830, first published to great critical acclaim in 1945.

The third in a trio of anthologies by Geoffrey Grigson (The Romantics, Before the Romantics and The Victorians) that are both highly entertaining and provide a fresh approach to the ideas of an age.

The first in a trio of anthologies by Geoffrey Grigson (The Romantics, Before the Romantics and The Victorians) that are both highly entertaining and provide a fresh approach to the ideas of an age.

The second in a trio of anthologies by Geoffrey Grigson (The Romantics, Before the Romantics and The Victorians) that are both highly entertaining and provide a fresh approach to the ideas of an age.

Includes more than 700 epigrams and epitaphs familiar, unfamiliar, and unknown.

On arrival as a medical orderly at Suez in 1941, Faulkes is surprised and alarmed to be greeted by a ghost from his family's past.

A collection of essays that cover several centuries of Irish history and discusses a variety of topics.

During the Jacobite war of 1689-91 James II had no more determined enemies than the Irish presbyterians. To English statesmen of the period it seemed that the only essential division of Irish society was that of 'protestant or papist'. This book explains why this division among protestants persisted in face of a hostile majority of Catholics.

The legendary musicologist Hans Keller described his friend and colleague Deryck Cooke as 'one of our time's two or three major analytic intellects'.

Traces the history of Anglo-Irish tradition down to the Treaty of 1921, and discusses the significance for Ireland of their decline, both in numbers and in influence, after that date. This book maintains that the Anglo-Irish tradition is an essential part of the life of Ireland.

Colin MacInnes was a sergeant in a Field Security detachment in the Second World War. In this imaginative record of actual experiences he describes the progress of his detachment through Holland, Germany and Belgium in a rapid succession of incidents, full of humanity, light-heartedness and wit.

Sixteen-year-old June Westley is an ideal daughter - kind, considerate, loving, and far more at ease in the Bush pioneered by her forefathers than her own father, Arthur, who spends his days waxing the Buick in the Australian sun.

By day he works in advertising, throwing some (but not all) of his morals to the wind as he attempts success in the tangled, competitive world of his chosen profession. Through copy laision sessions, difficult client meetings and endless office intrigue, it's an exhausting world.

Longrigg is a real discovery.' New StatesmanSurrounded by photographs, Major Desmond Cook exists quietly and alcoholically in his Baker Street flat. His days are spent at race meetings, fuelled by a dream of winning GBP30,000. But one day, an Irishman tips him a rank outsider for the fourth race at Ascot.

Introduces an anthology of poems in which place is prominent, which ranges not only geographically over the entire British Isles and the whole history of poetry in English, but includes sections on the landscape of France and Italy; and poems in French about London and in English about Sorrento.

Longrigg is a real discovery.' New StatesmanIt was a balmy London evening - mid-summer. If Sue and Eddie had switched the light off - or even stayed away from the window - none of it would ever have happened .

Through Europe and America, from the Highlands of Scotland to the islands of the Pacific, this book explores a trail, charting how a Scottish bohemian became an honorary chief among the Samoans, and how a European aesthete turned to Pacific politics.

He was the principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra for six years, he conducted the music for the 1953 Coronation and he recorded prolifically, his final recording being in 1978 when he was eighty-nine. Sir Adrian's conducting and recording repertoire was formidable but he will be forever associated with English music.

Published in 1985 and described by Ronald Blythe in the Guardian as a 'great telling of a shocking story' Harry Hopkins examines the history of a bitter conflict that raged in England for over two centuries.

Sir Geoffrey Faber's Oxford Apostles, a character study of the Oxford Movement, is not, in the usual sense of the word, a 'religious' book.

Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893) , pronounced to rhyme with 'know it', although never debunked as such by Lytton Strachey was nothing if not an Eminent Victorian: English scholar, classicist and theologian, and Master of Balliol College.

Cunningham was originally published in 1997 and also includes many of his later poems and translations, some of which appeared in periodicals but have never before been collected together in a book, and is a brilliant introduction to a forgotten poet who was described by the New York Times as 'one of the best poets in America'.

Apart from the Bible, almanacs were the most influential and widely dispersed for of literature in Tudor and Stuart England. This book presents a study of their history in depth. It shows how relevant they were to almost each aspect of life, social, intellectual, religious, and political.

The first of two volumes of memoirs by monk, writer and artist Peter Frederick Anson, Harbour Head was published in 1944 and deals with the first part of the author's unsettled life, trying to balance his religious vocation and his love for the sea.

This account of the struggle between the British and Chinese in the Opium War in Canton in the 1830s has a vividness that comes from 20 years of experience in the Far East as a civil servant. 'The story of the Opium War does not lend itself to natural composition;

With only a handful of clues at his disposal but a great deal of canny instinct, Septimus is drawn into a revolving plot concerning political conspiracy, ancient rites and dark magic powers at work in the depths of the Welsh valleys.

Born in Brighton in 1861, Constance Clara Garnett (nee Black) was the sixth of eight children.

Translated by Constance Garnett Three Plays by Turgenev includes A Month in the Country, A Provincial Lady and A Poor Gentleman. Turgenev wrote A Month in the Country in France between 1848 and 1850.

That night I went home to my lodgings in a state of perfect ecstasy. I felt supremely happy, and was already making all sorts of plans in my head. If someone had whispered in my ear then: 'You're raving, my dear chap. That's not a bit what's in store for you. What's in store for you is to die all alone, in a wretched little cottage'.