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Twenty-six eloquent Wessex Essays (including four previously uncollected).
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A paperback of 176 pages
Price £ 9.99
ISBN-10: 0955152372
ISBN-13: 9780955152375
Published: 02 June 2008 |
A further collection of Wessex Essays by this master of the genre which Includes four previously uncollected essays CONTENTS: The Sea! The Sea! The Sea! - Lodmoor - The Memory of One Day - A Stonehenge in Miniature - The Father of Dorset - A Pond - High Chaldon - A Royal Rebel - Somerset Names - Montacute Hill - The Village Shop - The Wordsworths in Dorset - The World Is New! - A Visit by Moonlight - Shaftesbury: Champion of the Poor - A Wish for Freedom - Athelney: In the Steps of King Alfred - Wookey Hole - Green Corners of Dorset - Recollections of Thomas Hardy - A Foolish Razorbill - A Richer Treasure - Weymouth Memories - The Shambles Fog-Horn - Dorchester Lives |
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DURDLE DOOR TO DARTMOOR by
Twenty-six of Llewelyn Powys's finest Wessex Essays
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A paperback of 160 pages
Price £ 9.99
ISBN-10: 0955152348 ISBN-13: 9780955152344 Published: December 2007 |
CONTENTS: The Durdle Door - The White Nose - A Bronze Age Valley - Bats Head -The Fossil Forest - The Castle Park of East Lulworth - St Aldhelm’s Head - Studland - Corfe Castle - Herring Gulls - Stalbridge Rectory - The River Yeo - Cerne Abbas - Stinsford Churchyard - The Grave of William Barnes - Weymouth Harbour - Portland - A Famous Wreck - Hardy’s Monument - The Swannery Bell at Abbotsbury - Lyme Regis - Montacute House - Ham Hill - On the Other Side of the Quantocks - Exmoor - Dartmoor |
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With an Introduction by Professor John Gray |
A paperback of 352 pages
Price £14.99
ISBN-10: 0955152364
ISBN-13: 9780955152368
Published: 30 April 2008 |
‘The last full-length novel of T. F. Powys, Unclay is the summation
of his life’s work. Though not without precedents, the manner and the
substance of this strange, compelling, not always comfortable book are
uniquely his own … Theodore Powys is a religious writer without any
vestige of orthodox belief, a dark poet who celebrates passing beauty and
a stark realist who is also a supreme fabulist. Unless one unlocks these
paradoxes one cannot fully understand his work, or appreciate the rare
delights it contains.’
Now available, for the first time, in paperback. |
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With an Introduction by Dr Glen Cavaliero |
A paperback of 224 pages
Price £11.99
ISBN-10: 0955152356
ISBN-13: 9780955152351
Published: 30 April 2008 |
‘Kindness in a Corner is among the most purely enjoyable of Powys’s books and is thus a good introduction to its author’s rustic world. On the face of it a quaint and mannered piece of amiable literary whimsy full of touches of light satire, it introduces us to an absent-minded scholarly bachelor clergyman, devoted to his books, to his armchair, and to his dinner, a man who lives in a benevolent tranquility cared for by a tactful housekeeper … but for all its playfulness this is a novel that deals in the profounder human issues.’
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THE BLACKTHORN WINTER by
With an Introduction by Dr Glen Cavaliero including a previously unpublished colour portrait of the author. |
A jacketed hardback of 208 pages
Price £ 19.50
ISBN-10: 0955152305
ISBN-13: 9780955152320
Published: 31 January 2007 |
In The Blackthorn Winter a band of gipsy travellers in the West Country catch the eye of a restless, young woman, Nancy Mead, in particular the seductive Mike. Leaving behind her dull blacksmith lover, Walter Westmacott, she elopes with him for a life of adventure on the road. Soon enough the powers of desire and passion set off bitter conflicts that bring remorse, revenge and death in their wake. The Blackthorn Winter is an ardent and uncompromising portrayal of life in rural England in the 1920s, and of one woman’s battle with her own emotions. |
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HESTER CRADDOCK by
With an Introduction by Dr Barbara Ozieblo including a previously unpublished studio portrait of the author. |
A jacketed hardback of 220 pages Price £ 19.50
ISBN-10: 095515233X
ISBN-13: 9780955152337
Published: 31 January 2007 |
Hester Craddock and her sister Nelly live with their aloof brother Wilfred in a cottage on a remote headland. The comfortable monotony of their routine lives is broken irrevocably by the arrival in the local village of the writer Edwin Pallant and his attractive artist friend Halmath Tryan. Casual acquaintance leads to deeper involvement as the protagonists become entangled in a web of shifting relationships, in which the desire for knowledge and experience unleashes the forces of jealousy, suspicion, and despair, with unforeseen consequences.
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RED DIE A Dorset Mystery by Roger Norman |
A jacketed hardback of 240 pages Price £ 14.99
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ISBN-13: 9780955152313
Published: September 2008 |
In October 1916, Lance-Corporal Jack Yeoman arrives back in England from the trenches of the Western Front. Guided in his movements by a pair of strange dice he carries with him, he returns to his home in deepest Dorset and arranges a secret rendezvous with his adoptive sister Maggie at a village pub. But his recklessness in word and deed soon land him in trouble and he finds himself a hunted man. His war-wounded brother Charles, the embittered stone-builder Bate, the vindictive local squire of Minterne, and the sinister priest of Urley – all have their reasons for pursuing Jack as he flees deeper into the heart of his native land and deeper into the mystery that envelops him ... |
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