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The Author Who Outsold Dickens
The Life and Work of W H Ainsworth
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526766441
Pub Date: 2025-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
264 Pages
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805 – 1882) is probably the most successful 19th Century writer that most people haven’t heard of. Journalist, essayist, poet and, most of all, historical novelist,...
An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the English-speaking Caribbean
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 9781739130312
Pub Date: 2025-02-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Papillote Press
250 Pages
The A-Z of Neglected Writers from the English-speaking Caribbean makes a major contribution to providing a fuller picture of the region’s rich literary history. It both restores our knowledge of writers...
The Dark Side of Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie, the Man Who Couldn’t Grow Up
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781399047555
Pub Date: 2024-11-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: White Owl
224 Pages
James Barrie has been marked in recent years as manipulative, perverted and without the ability to love. Having authored the story of Peter Pan, which has been enjoyed by children and adults for over...
Dickens and Travel
The Start of Modern Travel Writing
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781526737427
Pub Date: 2024-08-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
280 Pages
From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Travel, Lucinda Hawksley looks at the journeys made by...
The Creators of Winnie the Pooh
A A Milne and E H Shephard
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781399064231
Pub Date: 2024-07-25
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: White Owl
224 Pages
In 1962, children’s writer Roger Lancelyn Green coined the phrase ‘The Golden Age of Children’s Books’. A. A. Milne’s two Winnie-the-Pooh books, published in 1926 and 1928, which were so beautifully...
Arise And Go
W.B. Yeats and the people and places that inspired him
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9781788494854
Pub Date: 2024-07-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing...
The Real JRR Tolkien
The Man Who Created Middle-Earth
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399003285
Pub Date: 2024-06-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: White Owl
176 Pages
The Real JRR Tolkien: The Man Who Created Middle Earth is a comprehensive biography of the linguist and writer; taking the reader from his formative years of home-schooling, through the spires of Oxford,...
The Life of LTC Rolt
Where Engineering Met Literature
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781399056618
Pub Date: 2024-06-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages
In 1926, Tom Rolt who was then sixteen years old, abandoned his public school education. Having taken a job with a small firm of agricultural engineers, he realized that he had found his life’s calling....
The Author Who Outsold Dickens
The Life and Work of W H Ainsworth
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526766441
Pub Date: 2025-03-31
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
264 Pages
An A-Z of Neglected Writers of the English-speaking Caribbean
Price: $16.95
ISBN: 9781739130312
Pub Date: 2025-02-28
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Papillote Press
250 Pages
The Dark Side of Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie, the Man Who Couldn’t Grow Up
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781399047555
Pub Date: 2024-11-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: White Owl
224 Pages
Dickens and Travel
The Start of Modern Travel Writing
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781526737427
Pub Date: 2024-08-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
280 Pages
The Creators of Winnie the Pooh
A A Milne and E H Shephard
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781399064231
Pub Date: 2024-07-25
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: White Owl
224 Pages
Arise And Go
W.B. Yeats and the people and places that inspired him
Price: $19.99
ISBN: 9781788494854
Pub Date: 2024-07-06
Format: Paperback
Imprint: The O'Brien Press
The Real JRR Tolkien
The Man Who Created Middle-Earth
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781399003285
Pub Date: 2024-06-30
Format: Paperback
Imprint: White Owl
176 Pages
The Life of LTC Rolt
Where Engineering Met Literature
Price: $42.95
ISBN: 9781399056618
Pub Date: 2024-06-30
Format: Hardcover
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
224 Pages