Comprises the 26 meditations that our former archbishop and thoroughly good egg wrote for his parishioners during the first wave of the pandemic. Thoughtful and wise.
In the early 20th century an easily overlooked square in Bloomsbury was the home, at one time or another, of the modernist poet H.D., Dorothy L Sayers, the classicist Jane Harrison, the hist... read more
When 12-year old Jimmy and his brother are evacuated to a small Welsh mining town in Wales he discovers a secret. As compelling as 'Carrie's War' or Morpurgo, this canters along at pace, fo... read more
From the C7th to the present day... It transported Vikings to the Caspian and was crucial in the Battle of Stalingrad... a remarkable account of diversity and strategic significance.
The fascinating story of a language known as 'Rotwelsch', associated with vagabonds - linked to Yiddish and Romani - that the author learned from his father and uncle. His grandfather, a Naz... read more
A brutal uprising during the Protestant Reformation has seized the imagination of this historical novelist, cinematically resonant in our extremist times.