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  A Legend of Montrose - Highland...

  Walter Scott

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  Montrose's Highland campaign of 1644, a soldier of fortune back from the German wars who reckons everything in wages, and a feud between two clans that the war is merely an occasion for. Dugald Dalgetty is Scott's best comic creation and knows exactly what he is worth per month. This edition binds 55 plates after painters including Peter Snayers, Philips Wouwerman and Pieter Meulener, alongside four illustrations restored and coloured for this printing.

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  A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys -...

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  Six Greek myths retold to a group of children by a student at a Berkshire farmhouse: Midas and the golden touch, Pandora's box, Perseus, Bellerophon and the chimaera. Hawthorne wrote it in 1851 in the Berkshires, the same year as "The House of the Seven Gables", and insisted that the myths could be told for children without moralising. Midas's daughter is his own addition and the best thing in the book. Forty-two plates of summer meadows, elms, and warm family gardens by painters such as Eastman Johnson and George Inness give Hawthorne's fireside tales a golden, sunlit world to live in.

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  Max Carrados - The Cases of a...

  Ernest Bramah

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  Max Carrados is a gentleman detective who was blinded in an accident and is better at the work than any man with eyes — he reads newsprint with his fingertips and hears what a room is doing. Bramah was so private that publishers doubted he existed; he refused photographs and left almost no record. These 1914 stories were outselling Conan Doyle in the magazines at the time, and the blindness is never a gimmick. Sixty plates of quiet interiors and low-toned portraits by Hammershøi and Whistler run alongside these stories of a detective who works in the dark.

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  Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure...

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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  The Adventure of the Red Circle is one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of eight stories in the volume, His Last Bow. 
  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 - July 7, 1930) was a British author most noted for his stories about the detective Sherlock Holmes, which are generally considered a major innovation in the field of crime fiction. 
  Public Domain (P)2017 Listen & Live Audio

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  Top 10 Short Stories The - The...

  Virginia Woolf, D H Lawrence, A...

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  Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart.  A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere. 
   
  In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?  
   
  The theme itself will form the boundaries for our stories which range from well-known classics, newly told, to stories that modern times have overlooked but perfectly exemplify the theme.  Throughout the volume our authors whether of instant recognition or new to you are all leviathans of literature. 
   
  Some you may disagree with but they will get you thinking; about our choices and about those you would have made.  If this volume takes you on a path to discover more of these miniature masterpieces then we have all gained something. 
   
  In this volume the decade reveals some who are doing very well and the many who are not; underfoot, underpaid and under-represented.   
   
  Our writers of many hues and telling talents bring both their stories and their characters to bear on the decade between the two world wars with searing clarity. 
   
  01 - The Top 10 - The 1920's - The English - An Introduction 
  02 - The String Quartet by Virginia Woolf 
  03 - The Horse Dealer's Daughter by D H Lawrence 
  04 - Rats by M R James 
  05 - The Resurrection of Father Brown by G K Chesterton 
  06 - Miss Ogilivy Finds Herself by Radclyffe Hall 
  07 - Running Wolf by Algernon Blackwood 
  08 - Mrs Amworth by E F Benson 
  09 - Smee by A M Burrage 
  10 - Young Magic by Helen Simpson 
  11 - Decay by Marjorie Bowen

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  A Lost Masterpiece - From their...

  Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright...

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  The bookshelves of British literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From these Isles their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright.

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