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  Sir Julian Garve - From their...

  Ella D'Arcy

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  Ella D'Arcy was born on 23rd August 1857 in London, one of nine children.  
  Her education spanned London, Germany, France and the Channel Islands. A student of fine art, her poor eyesight meant a switch to literature was needed and with this she had hopes to be an author. 
  She worked as a contributor and unofficial editor, alongside Henry Harland, to The Yellow Book, Aubrey Beardsley’s sensational quarterly magazine that combined art, stories, poetry, essays and much else besides.  D'Arcy wrote several stories for the magazine and her stories have an undeniable psychological and realist style through her engagement with various themes from marriage, the family, imitation through to deception.  
  Recognition of her talents grew after the publication of ‘Irremediable’, in the Yellow Book, where it received much praise from critics.   
  She also wrote and published in the Argosy, Blackwood's Magazine, and Temple Bar.  
  However, D’Arcy’s canon was small and, apart from her magazine stories, her book publishing was limited to ‘Monochromes’ (1895), ‘Modern Instances’ and ‘The Bishop’s Dilemma’ (1898). She also translated André Maurois's biography of Percy Bysshe Shelley entitled ‘Ariel’ (1924). 
  Her diligence with work aside she was notorious for her inability to maintain relationships with friends.  When she did appear to them it was often unannounced.  This earned her the sobriquet 'Goblin Ella.' 
  D'Arcy spent much of her life living alone, though she had a constant urge to travel, but usually she resided on the edge of poverty. Her writing was often motivated by this need. 
  Much of her later life was spent in Paris before returning to London in 1937, where she died, in hospital, on 5th September 1937.

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  The Complete Short Stories of A...

  A. Milne, Gyles Brandreth

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  A new collection of A. A. Milne’s short stories for grown-ups. Gathered in full for the first time, they include several never published before. They show Milne’s renowned charm, concision and whimsical flair in all their brilliance. 
   
  He paints memorable scenes – from a children’s birthday party, to an accidental encounter with murder, and a case of blackmail – often with an unexpected twist. But he also deals in poignancy, from the girl who pulls the wool over her boyfriend’s eyes, to a first dance and first disappointment or family reunion and domestic dissonance. 
   
  Beguiling and evocative, Milne’s thought-provoking stories for adults will make you see his works for children in a whole new light.

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  Yah! Yah! Yah!

  Jack London

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  “Yah! Yah! Yah!” written by Jack London: He was a whiskey-guzzling Scotchman, and he downed his whiskey neat, beginning with his first tot punctually at six in the morning, and thereafter repeating it at regular intervals throughout the day till bedtime, which was usually midnight. He slept but five hours out of the twenty-four, and for the remaining nineteen hours he was quietly and decently drunk. During the eight weeks I spent with him on Oolong Atoll, I never saw him draw a sober breath. In fact, his sleep was so short that he never had time to sober up. It was the most beautiful and orderly perennial drunk I have ever observed.

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  Mansfield Park

  Jane Austen

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  Mansfield Park is a thoughtful and morally rich novel that examines love, responsibility, and social conscience in early 19th-century England. The story centers on Fanny Price, a quiet and modest young woman who is sent from her impoverished family to live with her wealthy relatives at Mansfield Park. Raised among privilege yet never fully belonging, Fanny grows up keenly observant of the people and values that surround her.
  
  As the Bertram family and their fashionable friends become entangled in flirtation, ambition, and moral compromise, Fanny's steady principles and inner strength quietly set her apart. Though often overlooked and underestimated, she possesses a deep sense of integrity that contrasts sharply with the charm and recklessness of those around her. When temptation and scandal threaten the harmony of Mansfield Park, Fanny's character is put to the ultimate test.
  
  With subtle irony, emotional depth, and sharp social insight, Jane Austen explores themes of duty, morality, and true affection. Mansfield Park is a compelling and introspective novel that rewards readers with its nuanced portrayal of character and its enduring reflection on what it truly means to live with honor and conviction.

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  Those Who Wait - From their pens...

  Ethel Dell

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  Ethel May Dell was born on 2nd August 1881, in the London borough of Streatham, England to a middle class and comfortably off family. 
  She wrote short stories from an early age, mainly romance themed and located in various parts of the British Empire buy more usually India.  For their time they were considered to be rather racy. 
  Her first novel, which she worked on for many years, was constantly rejected by publishers until when finally released in 1911 as ‘The Way of An Eagle’ was a huge success and went through 30 reprints. 
  Further works followed, all loved by her audience and generally panned by her critics, but it didn’t seem to upset her in the slightest.  Her income kept all criticisms and enquiries at bay. 
  In 1922 she married Lieutenant-Colonel Gerald Tahourdin Savage. He resigned his commission, devoted himself to her well-being and kept all outside interest away from his very shy and private wife. 
  Across her career she wrote some thirty novels and many short stories in magazines and periodicals which were later collected and published in their own volumes. 
  Ethel May Dell Savage died of cancer on 17th September 1939.  She was 58.

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  Ape and Essence - A Novel

  Aldous Huxley

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  When Aldous Huxley's Brave New World first appeared in 1932, it presented in terms of purest fantasy a society bent on self-destruction. Few of its outraged critics anticipated the onset of another world war with its Holocaust and atomic ruin. In 1948, seeing that the probable shape of his anti-utopia had been altered inevitably by the facts of history, Huxley wrote Ape and Essence. In this savage novel, using the form of a film scenario, he transports us to the year 2108. The setting is Los Angeles where a "rediscovery expedition" from New Zealand is trying to make sense of what is left. From chief botanist Alfred Poole we learn, to our dismay, about the twenty-second-century way of life.

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