The Terrors of the Night
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'...dreaming of bears, or fire, or water...' The greatest of Elizabethan pamphleteers, Nashe had a...
A Simple Heart
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'She decided she would teach him to speak and he was very soon able to say, 'Pretty boy!', 'Your...
Anthem for Doomed Youth
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'Tonight he noticed how the women's eyes Passed from him to the strong men that were whole.' The...
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
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'O let them be left, wildness and wet' As Kingfishers Catch Fire is a selection of Gerard Manley...
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The Nightingales are Drunk
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'Drunk or sober, king or soldier, none will be excluded.' Sensual, profound, delighted, wise,...
The Wife of Bath
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'Those husbands that I had, Three of them were good and two were bad. The three that I call "good"...
Little Gold
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The heat is oppressive and storms are brewing in Brighton in the summer of 1982. Little Gold, a...
Circles of Hell
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'I truly thought I'd never make it back.' Ten of the most memorable and most terrifying cantos from...
Well, They are Gone, and Here Must I Remain
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'Ye Ice-Falls! Ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain -...' A selection...
Gertrude Jekyll
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Almost eighty years after her death, Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) is still one of the most...