Part of Renard’s Christmas Card Classics series, 25% of the RRP of each book sold goes to Three Peas. This year, instead of a Christmas card, why not send a book? ‘One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town… that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and… →
A Fool i’ the Forest: A Phantasmagoria: Centenary Edition
First published in 1925, and frequently compared to T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, A Fool i’ the Forest is a modernist’s poetic expression of his ongoing struggles with overcoming the trauma of military service in the First World War. Taking its title from Shakespeare’s phantasmagoric Midsummer Night’… →
Blood on the Dining-Room Floor
What happened, nobody saw, but everybody knew… Why should blood on the floor make anyone mad against automobiles and telephones and desks. Why. This is what happened.’ Written in 1933, immediately following the publication of the wildly successful Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Blood on the Dinin… →
A Quarter Dead and Half Alive is a beautifully crafted, wide-ranging collection that lingers on the intersection of humanity and the environment. Foregrounding ageing parents and new family members arriving, and zooming out to take in the beauty of the natural world, this is a wildly relatable colle… →
Hilary Davies is poet, former Chair of the Poetry Society, a Hawthornden fellow, and an Eric Gregory Award Winner. She was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at King’s College, London 2012–16 and at the British Library 2018–19. She is also a Fellow of the English Association and of the Temenos Academy. In N… →
Death hides in the detail. He hides in plain sight. Pencil-pushing risk-analyst Luke Smith finds himself with a bounty on his head, the police, the public and a paid assassin on his tail. A file accidentally sent to him in a high-stakes Initial Public Offering (IPO) transaction is his only clue. Ins… →
What you spy is what you get. Or is it? When a child trafficking network sets up a fake student exchange programme, families from around the world fall for it. Seventeen-year-old Kendall jets off on what she believes will be a Californian adventure. First stop: a luxurious hillside mansion for ‘Orie… →
Phil Osgood has it all. The wonderful wife, the fabulous kids, the lucrative career. He really only has one problem. He’s bored. Quietly, Phil steps out of his lane and moonlights with a local detective. It’s a good compromise. What starts as a diversion turns into a hunt for missing friends. When t… →
Mrs. Mina Braithwaite has never quite fit into Mydalla’s polite society. Her features are so different from the other noblewomen, more like the city’s foreign workers, and she chafes at all the rules. Then there’s the furious entity that has followed her for years, crawling from shadows to hurt her… →
Working Nights is a beautifully designed love letter to the liminal hours: a photobook capturing the raw energy, quiet solitude, and strange magic of Sheffield and London’s nightlife in the early 2000s. Through 29 full-colour photographs and evocative illustrations by Sheffield artist Paul Evans, D… →