It is a long and golden summer in the Edwardian period. London is abuzz with gentlemen in tall ha...

It is the early 1950s. Lionel Spote, a young London publisher, has just discovered that he has in...

Gösta Berling is a failed parson in nineteenth century rural Sweden, too fond of pleasure and the...

It is the late 1920s, and beautiful young Eve Wentworth is in a sticky situation. Both Harold and...

In two brilliant collections of stories, Reginald (1904) and Reginald in Russia (1910), which spa...

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The neat ship Grosvenor is fully laden and crewed, and slowly traversing the English Channel, rea...

On first publication in 1958, The Daily Telegraph's reviewer said 'Hugo Charteris' Europeans are ...

Dormer is an old house with Elizabethanorigins, much added to. It sits, very isolated,in a cu...

In 1909, ten years had elapsed since Max Beerbohm's last volume of essays. In thetime which had...

Edith and Bruce Ottley could not be called idyllically married. But a form of love persists betwe...

Winifred Holtby met Jean McWilliam in a WAAC camp at Huchenneville in France very near the end of...