Mapp and Lucia

E. F. Benson

Miss Elizabeth Mapp reigns supreme over the village of Tilling... until the advent of Mrs Emmeline Lucas, or 'Lucia' to her friends. No one could compete, surely, with Lucia's formidable armoury: her duchesses, her Italian, her financial speculations, her celebrated recipe for Lobster a la Riseholme....

Poems of Mourning

Washington P Ed

Most of the poems in this collection are abo ut death, all are about loss. The poems chosen traverse a su prisingly wide range of emotions from despair to joy, resign ation to anger, all articulated in language of the greatest power and beauty. '...

Next Big Thing

Anita Brookner

"'This would soon be a new day, all too closely resembling the others, the normal days of his present existence, in which nothing happened nor could be expected to happen' At seventy-three Herz is facing an increasingly bewildering world. He cannot see his place in it or even work out what to do with hi...