Even after the resounding triumph of ‘Jane Eyre’, Charlotte Brontë could persuade no one to publish ‘The Professor’, her first novel. This story of William Crimsworth, who goes to...

In this concluding volume, Lieutenant Billy Prior is on his way back to France. It is August 1918, and passing through London he says goodbye to his psychologist, William Rivers, who is largely...

Tom Seymour is a child psychologist who has worked in the north of England for many years. One day, while walking by a river near his home, he rescues a young man from drowning, and realises that...

In the sweet shop Willy Chapman was free, absolved from all responsibility, and he ran his sweet shop like his life – quietly, steadfastly, devotedly. It was a bargain struck between Chapman and...

A beautifully controlled and powerful story of love and conscience, will and desire begins when a mysterious young girl arrives to take up a post at the seedy Hotel du Lion D’Or in a small...

In this second volume of the trilogy which opened with ‘Regeneration’, the year is now 1918. The setting has shifted from Scotland and Craiglockhart to an England suffering shortages, grey...

Rudolf Rassendyll bears the name of an English duke and a remarkable resemblance to the King of Ruritania, the result of a scandalous liaison between an earlier Rassendyll and the royal Elphbergs....