Written when Austen was just sixteen, these pages are stuffed with the wit and biting satire so associated with her name, and deserves to be as well known as her later novels. This edition also contains an introduction by G.K. Chesterton, with which it was first published.
Exploring his colourful, rich and often dramatic life in London and summers spent in southern Italy among his large extended... Læs mere
Fifteen-year-old Ashleigh is clever and charming, and she soon becomes the neighbourhood's favourite babysitter. But she has an appetite for secrets. Fast-paced, witty and... Læs mere
Although her legacy as a politician is certainly more enduring than as a poet, her verse was highly acclaimed upon publication, and when The Golden Threshold, her first collection, came out in 1905, contemporary poets queued up to offer recommendations.
François the Waif, considered by many to be Sand's masterpiece, tells the tale of a young orphan who is placed in rural foster care. Presented in a fresh edit of the original English... Læs mere
The second in the Morris’s Manifestos series, The Decorative Arts is a passionate argument against the homogenisation of production, and a cry for art to make itself seen in design – ‘art will make our streets as beautiful as the woods, as elevating as the mountainsides.’
These so-called Stupid Stories for Tough Times are a tonic for our times – a search for sense in the strange and baffling times we live in, shot through, as all good... Læs mere
Following the death of his wife, Miles, an academic and hypochondriac suffering from acute anxiety, is told by his therapist to write a fictionalised version of his life in order to... Læs mere
Split into four strands, focusing on the climate crisis, birds, Australia and the melting polar caps, The Colour of Extinction forces us to confront the possible futures of the planet that we are destroying yet are so reliant on.