The Club
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In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few...
London Journal 1762-1763
James Boswell and Gordon Turnbull
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Edinburgh-born James Boswell, at twenty-two, kept a daily diary of his eventful second stay in...
Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs Piozzi (Thrale): With Notes and an Introductory Account of Her Life and Writings
Hester Lynch Piozzi and Abraham Hayward
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Highly educated and accustomed to intellectual society, the writer Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821)...
The Devil and the Dark Water
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A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634 and...
Walking: A Novella
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Thomas Bernhard is "one of the masters of contemporary European fiction" (George Steiner); "one of...
Tall Bones
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When seventeen year old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like...
Suspense Triggers: Abuse Triggers: drug use Triggers: racism
Call for the Dead
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An anonymous letter had accused Foreign Office man Samuel Fennan of being a communist. George...
Close Your Eyes: A Fairy Tale
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Set in early 1400s Europe, Close Your Eyes is a sincere, yet light-hearted and lustful, ode to love....
Historical Fiction
Mr Foote's Other Leg
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In Georgian London no one is more famous than Samuel Foote. Satirist, impressionist and dangerous...
At War with Yourself: A Comic About Post-Traumatic Stress and the Military
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"I had the idea to make a comic about your experience of PTSD. I'd like to understand more about it...