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What if your grumpy neighbor is hiding more than just a dark past? Widowed and nearly destitute, Jane, Duchess of Coleford, has one asset left: a crumbling Cornish manor she's never seen. It's meant to be her fresh start—until her hostile neighbor makes it clear he wants her gone. Brook Reeves is infuriatingly arrogant, impossibly handsome, and determined to buy her out. Jane refuses on principle. She needs this house. She needs her independence. And she certainly doesn't need to feel so alive under the intensity of his scowling attention.

Billionaire Cyril Chippington-Smythe is struck by Cupid's arrow but alas, his chinless cousin Binky has already staked a claim. In the confusion caused by an onslaught of hormones, Cyril finds himself running for public office against the rapacious Captain Bligh. Will his championing of the downtrodden cause the object of his fascination to shift her affections? Must he do the honourable thing and step aside in favour of his cousin? Can his Machiavellian mechanical valet, Bentley, untangle this Gordian knot?

Meet Detective Inspector Zoe Finch. She's ambitious, determined, and damaged. And she's about to uncover evidence that could make her career... or get her sacked.

Some people worry that they don't appreciate poetry; but English poetry wasn't written to be appreciated it was written to be enjoyed. For six centuries people have been reading poetry for enjoyment - for fun, for romance, for religion and for entertainment - and this is a book about those...

An anthology of plays and original radio dramas from the prolific playwright Born and brought up in the East End of London, Bernard Kops came to fame in the late 1950s as part of British drama’s ‘New Wave’. A lyrical chronicler of Jewish family life, he is often compared to Arnold Wesker...

More than forty million Americans claim Irish ancestry. This lively illustrated book, divided into parts exploring myths, legends, and folktales, explains for the U.S. audience the importance of storytelling in Irish culture in particular. In ancient Ireland, a good storyteller was so valued that he would be a member of the aos dána, the bards, and would be welcomed into every village because he came bearing tales.

As he himself said, Drayton’s sonnets are the most “sportive” of the great Elizabethan love poems, “ever in motion,” by turns “wild, madding, jocund, and irregular,” yet maintaining a universality and sturdy good sense that have spoken to the hearts of hearers and readers for four centuries. This recording includes in full not only his famous final collection, Idea (1619), but also the earlier Idea’s Mirror (1594), as well as the various love sonnets that he wrote on other occasions.

For the 100th anniversary of the publication of "Winnie-the-Pooh," Gyles Brandreth chronicles the writing of this beloved classic and the life of its creator, A. A. Milne. This program is read by the author. Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear tells the remarkable story of A A Milne, a playwright, a...

A leading scholar draws on fifty years of reading and studying J.R.R. Tolkien to explain how he created an entire world.

History, both political and literary, was made when W. F. Deedes met Evelyn Waugh in 1935. Both were in Abyssinia to cover a war which many in England regarded with bewildered indifference but which profoundly influenced an impending global conflict. Whilst Deedes was principally concerned with...

Laura es una joven que vive con su padre en un antiguo castillo en las tierras de Estiria, en Austria. Un día, su vida cambia cuando la carreta en la que viajan dos mujeres nobles se voltea frente al castillo. En ella van Carmilla y su madre, quien le pide al padre de Laura que hospede a su hija durante pocos meses porque debe seguir con su viaje urgentemente.

Bloomsbury presents Notes from a Working-Class Playwright, written and read by Leo Butler Award-winning British playwright, Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience teaching and mentoring emerging playwrights through the Royal Court Young Writers'...

Un divorce forcément douloureux, une grande maison victorienne troquée contre un appartement en haut d'une colline dans le nord de Londres, deux filles à élever et des factures qui s'accumulent... Deborah Levy a cinquante ans quand elle décide de tout reconstruire, avec pour tout bagage, un vélo électrique et une plume d'écrivain. L'occasion pour elle de revenir sur le drame pourtant banal d'une femme qui s'est jetée à corps perdu dans la quête du foyer parfait, un univers qui s'est révélé répondre aux besoins de tous sauf d'elle-même.

The last book that Woolf saw to publication in 1940, this stunning biography charts Fry’s early years and education, through to his prominent role in pioneering Post-Impressionism in Britain and the legacy he left behind. Woolf elegantly explores Fry’s intellectual pursuits and artistic philosophy, offering great insight into his exhibitions and literary endeavours. She also paints a nuanced and candid portrait of the man behind the artist, delving into Fry’s relationships and personal demons, creating a poignant tribute to the deeply sensitive and complex soul that Woolf came to know.

He holds her life in his hands, but that doesn’t mean she trusts him. As the youngest son of a duke, Edward Wentworth is neither the heir nor the spare, leaving him feeling restless and uncertain. He decides to forge his own path by embarking on a journey to the newly formed United States that...

If you like a) laughing or b) words which rhyme with each other, you will love Brian Bilston - Richard Osman, author of We Solve Murders 'There is poetry to be found in anything if you look hard enough.' You Took the Last Bus Home is a collection of ingenious, hilarious and touching poems from...

Butchers, bakers, brewers, businessmen, farmers, fabric workers, entertainers, comedians, gluttons, lechers, spongers and swindlers, prostitutes and parasites, the pope and his priests, the king and his courtiers, compete for attention in this lively and subversive vision of corruption in fourteenth-century England.

Bloomsbury presents An A-Z of Jane Austen by Michael Greaney, read by Jenny Dunbar. Jane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's...

Bloomsbury presents What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why) by Susan Allen Ford, read by Jenny Dunbar. The first detailed account of Austen’s characters’ reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to...

In the quiet corridors of memory and imagination, we often grapple with absence, grappling with the imprints left behind by people, experiences, and moments that were once pillars in the architectures of our lives. The following anthology of poems—"Ashes of Dreams"—strives to traverse these complex landscapes. Written as an homage to love, loss, and the nuanced stages of grief, these verses seek to capture the raw emotion of parting, the hollowness of absence, and the resilient flickers of hope that persist even in the darkness.