In 1949, soon after the arrival of communism, David Kidd's Chinese fiancée, the daughter of an an...

Here, like a treasure chest, are Norman Lewis's most powerful pieces of writing, chosen by John H...

I want to marry a lighthouse keeper. And live by the side of the sea. So says the old song, but P...

The autobiography of the Duke of Pirajno, who worked for eighteen years as a doctor in Libya, Eri...

The journals of Lady Henrietta Clive are among the earliest written accounts of India by a Britis...

Seen through the eyes of a young boy, the Argentine pampas was a land of freedom and endless expl...

On an unnamed Island that can only be Ceylon, the traveller checks into his 117th rented room, ab...

Until 1912 Morocco had never suffered foreign domination, and its mountainous interior was as clo...

In a dark cupboard of her house, Michaela Reid, the granddaughter-in-law of Sir James Reid, disco...

The Missionaries is a searing examination of attempts by North American fundamentalist Christian ...

With dry, laconic wit, Norman Lewis remembers his transformation from stammering Welsh schoolboy ...

Valse des Fleurs recreates one glittering winter's day in St Petersburg in its heyday. The Tsar i...