Sacred Hunger races between gaudy mansions of the nouveau riche in the English countryside and the slave dealers abode in humid, hot West Africa. It concerns the entangled and conflicted fortunes of two cousins: Erasmus Kemp, the son of...
To ‘walk in Pimlico’ is, according to the Penguin Dictionary of Historical Slang, the colloquial expression ‘to be handsomely dressed’.Comedian, clog dancer, comic vocalist, actor and all-round funny fellow Corney Sage is treading the boards at the Constellation in...
Two very different women . . . Linked by destiny and a power struggle for the English crown. Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I, is determined to win back her crown from Stephen, the usurper king, against all odds...
This reprint of the third book in Nichols’ “Allways Trilogy” contains a new foreword by Bryan Connon, Beverley Nichols’ biographer. Set in the English countryside, the hilarious memoir is as much about the author’s love for plants as it...
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