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In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies” life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a 'Heavenly voice’ told her 'There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek …

As writers strongly committed to the Reformation, Anne Lock Prowse and Elizabeth Russell translated works which they believed were doctrinally useful for their Protestant readers. Lock translated …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 ”Deeply poetic.” CAROLINE LUCAS MP ”A masterpiece of storytelling.” NICK MAYHEW-SMITH ”Mary Colwell is a candle of …

”Bracingly original” Kathryn Hughes, Guardian ”A mixture of travelogue, local history and reportage, Swamp Songs brims with evocative word sketches” Times Literary Supplement From Romney …

This is surely the most extraordinary book on food and eating ever published in the English language. Miss Pennell, who was a correspondent for the Pall Mall Gazette at the height of its amusement an …

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA”S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2023 A searing study of American poverty from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Evicted The United States is the richest cou …

_______________ ”[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing” – The Time …

Stimulated by new editions of Shelley”s writings and the evidence of notebooks, the editors have assembled an outstanding group of international Shelley scholars to work through the implications of …

The Punjab region of India sent more than 600, 000 combatants to assist the British war effort during World War I. Their families back home, thousands of miles from the major scenes of battle, were …

”Over a hundred years ago, the German poet Heine warned the French not to underestimate the power of ideas: philosophical concepts nurtured in the stillness of a professor”s study could destroy a c …