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  The Lady of Blossholme - A...

  H. Rider Haggard

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  England, 1535: an abbot wants the estate of a knight's daughter, and the dissolution of the monasteries is about to hand every argument to whoever moves first. Cicely is married in secret, widowed, robbed and declared a witch, and the King's commissioners are on the road. Haggard went to South Africa at nineteen; here he wrote Tudor England, and the land-grab under the religion is exactly right. Twenty-nine plates of knights, pilgrims and Tudor faces by painters from Cranach to Titian give the age of the Dissolution a face to match Haggard's tale.

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  Deborah - From their pens to...

  Josephine Tey

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  Elizabeth MacKintosh was born on the 25th July 1896 in Inverness, Scotland. 
  After attending Inverness Royal Academy and then the Anstey Physical Training College in Erdington, Birmingham she taught physical training at schools throughout England and Scotland. 
  In 1923, she returned to Inverness to care for her invalid mother. She stayed after her mother's death later that year to keep house for her father.  It was now that she began her literary career and first published in The Westminster Gazette in 1925, under the pseudonym Gordon Daviot.  She continued to write and publish in periodicals until, in 1929, her first novel ‘Kif: An Unvarnished History’ was published to good reviews followed, three months later, by her first mystery novel, ‘The Man in the Queue’.   
  Despite her good fortune and talents her mind was set on writing a play that would receive a West End run.  ‘Richard of Bordeaux’, under the Daviot pseudonym, made its debut in 1932 at the Arts Theatre. 
  In all she completed about a dozen one-act plays and a dozen full-length plays, many with biblical or historical themes, and all with the Daviot pseudonym.  Only four of these plays were produced. 
  Perhaps her best-known books all involve the Scotland Yard Inspector, Alan Grant, and required yet another pseudonym.  This time Josephine Tey. 
  She was intensely private, and during the last months of her life, when she knew she was terminally ill, she avoided all of her friends.   
  Elizabeth Mackintosh died from liver cancer on 13th February 1952 in London.  She was 55.

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  The Lost Room - From their pens...

  Clothilde Graves

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  Clotilde Augusta Inez Mary Graves was born on the 3rd June 1863 at Buttevant Castle, Co. Cork, to parents with military backgrounds. 
  At age nine, the family moved to Southsea in England for yet another military posting.  Her father’s postings gave her valuable experiences that would be put to good use in later years in some of her literary works. 
  She was educated at a Catholic convent in Lourdes before returning to London in 1884 to study art in Bloomsbury.  She worked part-time at the British Museum and the Royal Female School of Art and generated further income by drawing little pen-and-ink grotesques for the comic papers.  
  A few years later a chance meeting found her writing extra lyrics for a pantomime version of Puss in Boots.  She followed up with several financially successful plays, both in London and New York, and gained a measure of notoriety in one with the comparison of marriage and prostitution.   
  Despite her dramatic success she published her first novel in 1911 under the pseudonym of Richard Dehan which she continued to use for later works.  As well as novels and plays she published collections of short stories which glow with talent and invention. 
  She was an unusual figure in London society, wearing her hair short, taking on a masculine manner and cut of clothing, and smoking cigarettes in public when such traits were considered eccentric at best.  Add to this her admired collection of Chinese and Japanese trophies, her enthusiasm for fly-fishing and her riding of a tricycle and you have a perfect image of this fascinating writer. 
  Clotilde Graves died at the convent of Our Lady of Lourdes at Hatch End in Middlesex, on the 3rd December 1932.  She was 69.

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  The Victory - From their pens to...

  Rabindranath Tagore

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  The bookshelves of World literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From their countries and continents their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Rabindranath Tagore.

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  Aunt Lindy A Story Founded on...

  Victoria Earle Matthews

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  The bookshelves of American literature are incredible collections that have gathered together centuries of very talented authors.  From this continent their fame spread and whilst among their number many are now forgotten or neglected their talents endure.  Among them is Victoria Earle Matthews.

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  All Around the Moon - The Return...

  Jules Verne

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  The sequel to the moon gun - the projectile misses its target, circles the moon and has to get home. Verne worked out the free-fall, the atmosphere problem and the splashdown, and the passengers spend the voyage arguing about lunar geography. This edition adds a gallery of 41 plates, among them moonlit coastlines and harbours by Friedrich, Redon, Pether and Constable, alongside 19 restored and coloured illustrations and Edward Roth's translation.

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