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“Shabby Tiger” by Howard Spring is about the gritty, bohemian life in 1930s Manchester, focusing on young, rebellious artist Nick Faunt and his unconventional relationships, particularly with the forthright Anna Fitzgerald, exploring themes of art, class, love, and...
Rachel Rosing by Howard Spring is about the ambitious, beautiful, and calculating social climberRachel Rosing, focusing on her pursuit of fame and fortune as an actress, depicting her ruthless ascent through marriage and career. But will this be met with eventual...
''The Devereux Court Mystery'' by Miles Burton (John Rhode) is a Golden Age detective novel where amateur sleuth Desmond Merrion helps Scotland Yard's Inspector Arnold solve a complex case involving a gang, a river setting, and seemingly unrelated crimes that turn out...
Fortune's mannerisms and speech put him into the same class as Lord Peter Wimsey but the stories are much darker, and often involve murderous obsession, police corruption, financial skulduggery, child abuse and miscarriages of justice. Bailey is a much neglected...
''Mr Fortune's Trials'' includes six curious, gruesome and ingenious crimes which Reggie investigates through minute, scientific detection.
This collection of six puzzling stories introduced the world to Reggie Fortune, a remarkable detective whose rotund frame conceals a razor-sharp mind and a fighting spirit. A true champion of the oppressed, Fortune will never let a murderer escape justice—whether his...
''Mr Fortune, Please'' includes six ingenious, bizarre and murderous crimes which Reggie investigates through minute and forensic, scientific detection.
''The Ballad of Cat Ballou'' is the story of Cat and Clay, told with all the earthy simplicity of a folk-song out of those forever banished days of six guns, frontier dance halls and blazing range wars between cattleman and farmer, the days when a sense of honor could...
This is the story of one man’s war and of the Royal Navy’s escort vessels — trawlers, corvettes and destroyers — that guarded Britain’s ocean life-lines across the Atlantic against the ravaging forays of U-Boats and surface raiders. This highly acclaimed firsthand...
The banks of the Didder on a sunny summer afternoon when the trout are rising seem an unlikely place for a murderer to strike. But when the body of a local landowner is discovered it soon becomes apparent that there are a number of people with good reason to dislike...
This is Herman Hesse's last and greatest work, which won for him the Nobel Prize for LIterature. Described as "sublime" by Thomas Mann, admired by Andre Gide and T. S. Eliot, it is considered one of the important novels of the twentieth century. It captures Herman Hesse...
A dark and pessimistic fantasy based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. There is something rotten in Sixth Century Jutland, where prince Amleth cannot make up his mind how to deal with the murderers of his father. This terrific novel guest-stars a rough and ready Arthur of...
The Roman Way was the author’s second book, providing contrasts between ancient Rome and present-day life. Hamilton describes life as it existed according to ancient Roman poets such as Plautus, Virgil and Juvenal, interprets Roman thought and manners, and compares them...
Narcissus and Goldmund tells the story of two medieval men whose characters are diametrically opposite: Narcissus, an ascetic monk firm in his religious commitment, and Goldmund, a romantic youth hungry for knowledge and worldly experience. First published in 1930,...
Romance and terror in a barbaric age. Michael of Finlandia an orphan bastard pursues a better social position with help of friendly people and crosses the continent of Europe to seek his fortune.
In the Thirteenth Century, Mediterranean Europe was in a passionate ferment—restlessly reaching out for new lands, new achievements, new exploits. And Marco Polo, the Venetian, was its brightest symbol of adventure. The author has chosen a real person to be his hero,...
Considered to be one of the author's most successful books, this is the story of the long hunt of Jason Starbuck, who rode east from the frontiers of the Adirondacks to seek the Golden Fleece and followed the proud, bold, beautiful Roxana from the harbors of Salem to...
Ever read a book you couldn't put down? That you wish hadn't ended? This is such a book. I've already read it twice, and about to begin again. The adventure begins as we see a boy standing on the coast, watching his family die in a severe storm off the New England...
H.G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (1933) is a "future history" novel presented as a manuscript from the future, chronicling humanity's path from global chaos in the mid-20th century (WWII, economic collapse, chemical warfare) towards a scientific, rational world...
H.G. Wells' World Brain, from 1937, is about his vision for a universal, free, and permanent digital encyclopedia (a "World Encyclopaedia") that would centralize all human knowledge to foster global understanding, education, and world peace by combating bad...
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