Nature Writing
Collected observations and essays on the English countryside and its flora and fauna from an award-winning novelist. See More
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Quick ViewCollected observations and essays on the English countryside and its flora and fauna from an award-winning novelist. See More
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Quick ViewStephen Grove is a twelve-year-old schoolboy living in a small town on the south coast of England. His father walked out when he was three, leaving him with an unsympathetic elder sister and an almost equally unsympathetic... See More
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Quick ViewSouthern England, 3000 BC. Incomers, bringing agriculture from mainland Europe, are wrecking the virgin forests with slash-and-burn. The ancient territories and way of life of the native, nomadic hunter-gatherers, unchanged... See More
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Quick ViewThe setting is feudal Sussex in the thirteenth century, a landscape and society that have changed almost beyond recognition. The power of the Church is at its zenith; yet the King, ruling by divine right, is sovereign, above... See More
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Quick ViewWhat is now called Britain - the Island Country - is ruled by Brennis Gehan Fifth, a kinsman of the mainland Gehans. He is losing his mind, in love with his beautiful, wayward sister, and intent on the genocide of the native... See More
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Quick ViewThe cult of the Earth Goddess is controlled throughout the vast empire of Europe by the secretive and unscrupulous Red Order, the priesthood which manipulates all power for its own ends. The land that is now called England... See More
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Quick ViewThe future. The British government now runs island prison colonies to take dangerous offenders from its overcrowded mainland jails. Among all these colonies, Sert, 25 miles off the north Cornish coast, has the worst... See More
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Quick ViewThis is a very black comedy indeed - but it is also a story of innocence, redemption and, above all, love. The setting is England in 1955. Nigel Dodd is 23. Still living at his parents' home, he is heir to the family... See More
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Quick ViewAnnie and Laurence Trent are a young, professional couple living in a London suburb. Laurence is beset with worry: about money, about his job, about the economy and the future. He and Annie long to start a family but can't... See More
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Quick ViewEleven years on from a bitter divorce, Adrian Stowell is becoming not only a hermit but a misanthrope. He has vowed never to get caught again, to concede to another woman influence over himself and his property, and has... See More
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Quick ViewMay 1944: dawn in the Bay of Biscay. A U-boat lies crippled on the seabed. Within earshot of the warship that sank her, a solitary survivor breaks the surface. Injured, in shock, hypothermic, his life-vest torn, he cries out... See More
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Quick ViewEurope, 5,000 years ago. The massacre that wipes out Tagart's tribe of nomads is brutal and bloody: a crime that cries for vengeance. With all the skills and ingenuity of a Stone Age hunter, Tagart exacts a fearful... See More
Ten short pieces of non-fiction, some about reading and writing. See More
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Quick View'That's enough,' she told herself, her hairbrush poised in mid air. 'Stop thinking about the past.' About France: about the parties and the money, about her mother's lovers, and most of all about her mother's long and... See More